The story behind
the domain name is intriguing, as a community of people looking for search
engine DuckDuckGo has found another search engine instead. Google. While the
search engine giant owns the Duck.com domain name fair and square, the decision
to point the domain at its search engine had nothing to do with people looking
for the Aflac mascot and appears that they’d like to grab attention away from
upstart DuckDuckGo.
Here’s what
founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo Gabriel Weinberg had to say about the confusion
in response to a post on the DuckDuckGo community site, which sits at Duck.co:
Yes, duck.com came
as an asset in the unrelated On2 acquisition (On2 used to be known as Duck
Corp). But it just sat there (pointing to this Duck Corporation history page)
for a long time.
I first inquired
about it on 11/4/09. After several attempts, I got back a response “from
management” on 3/25/10 that they didn’t want to sell it. Understandable.
Now
http://www.on2.com/ points to a Google explanation page about the On2
acquisition, yet http://duck.com/ points directly to Google search.
Google owns lots
of domains that don’t point anywhere, or not to their main search page. That
means there was an affirmative decision somewhere along the line to redirect
that particular domain to their search product.
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