Even Google goes shopping
February 24th, 2010
They have the world’s most valuable domain name and one of the most precious brands in the world. But it seems even Google has been trying to save a few bucks during the years.
A historical look-up of google.com over at DomainTools reveals that the domain was originally registered in 1997 at Network Solutions, who pretty much had a monopoly back then.
Network Solutions has never been famous for its cheap prices. And Google did, in fact, in 2002 switch to competing registrar AllDomains.com.
A year after that, though, the Mountain View people’s new registrar was swallowed by MarkMonitor, which is known for handling large companies’ domain portfolios.
By the way, although Google is famous for google.com, the company has a huge domain portfolio (including many typos won after arbitration). According to DomainTools, the email address dns-admin@google.com is associated with about 6,799 domains.
Back in 1997, google.com was administered by a guy named Larry Page. Seems he is not the domain administrator anymore 
