Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
by limeblack on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:17PM
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> No. Google has the monopoly on search (outside of China).
No. Russia has yandex.
[1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/rus...
Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
by HeavyStorm on Thursday December 13, 2018 @12:52PM
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How is having the duck.com dns a trust issue? Google could just as easy create some purpose for it and ddg would have a hard time proving that a domain that does not have its product name to be inflicting monopoly.
Conversely, how does transferring the domain helps Google on court? If they are a monopoly, then surely it isn't because of naming.
(I do defy the affirmation that Google has a monopolity at all - Bing and ddg are likely alternatives that anyone can use - it's very different from, let's say, IBM mainframes... But I'm no expert in antitrust laws)
Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
by EGreg on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:26PM
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If Facebook owns groups.com but aren’t using it, can we go to ICANN and ask them to give it to us?
Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
by youeseh on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:11PM
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ddg.gg is easier to type and for my fingers to remember than duck.com.
No. Google has the monopoly on search (outside of China). Avoiding anti-trust is a huge concern of theirs. Look at MS and IE in the browser wars - they were forced by the EU to build into Windows links/ads to the other browsers - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu#/media/File:B...
Whilst DDG has huge momentum by now, duckduckgo.com is still an ache to type - that's why ddg.co has existed for years, and why you use "DDG" yourself ;) duck.com is way more memorable and even faster.
Not a lawyer, but given DDG's brand recognition, I'd imagine they would have a strong case in an ICANN dispute given that Google are not using it. Google are proactively avoiding at least this bad PR by doing the right thing (this week).