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		danbmil99 on Jan 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gail.com FAQ Fun fact: In the 90's IBM produced a commercial where a young girl is creating her own website, www.duck.com, about ducks. Unfathomably, no one thought to check whether www.duck.com was an actual website, and what if any content might be there if people watching the commercial typed the domain name into their browser address bar. Turns out www.duck.com was our domain name at "The Duck Corporation", an early version of On2.com, later bought by Google. Google then gifted the domain to DuckDuckGo (try it!) Sort of a tech company version of Ancestry.com?

spiznnx on Jan 10, 2023 [–]

I assume Google avoided a significant legal risk by gifting it to DDG

edit: surprisingly, it used to point to Google Search https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/12/duck-com-now-points-to-duc...

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