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Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by systems on Monday August 22, 2011 @05:09AM (#2911879)
Well, in general I like the Duck Logo and brand Now checking possible duck domains

    Duck.com redirect to google! 
    Duck.co points to a DDG community site!
    Goduck.com is for sales 
    Duck.net is blocked from work so I guess its a porn thing
What do you think will work as a good brand?
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Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by mdaniel on Monday August 22, 2011 @06:49AM (#2912043)
I didn't know about duck.com. Does anyone know the story behind that?
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Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by unfasten on Monday August 22, 2011 @07:18AM (#2912102)
From a previous discussion on it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 here's a quote from Gabriel:

"""To be fair, it came as an asset in an unrelated acquisition (On2). But it just sat their (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."""

Also discussed a little bit on the DDG community forum: http://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google

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Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by mdaniel on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:35PM (#2917472)
Thank you, that was very helpful and informative.
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Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by morsch on Monday August 22, 2011 @06:55AM (#2912053)
Duck.com redirect to google!

Huh. Well, that's fairly bizarre.

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Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by vacri on Monday August 22, 2011 @08:57AM (#2912281)
duck.net is owned by a squatter.
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