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by xupybd 3223 days ago
"It’s unclear whether this is for a limited amount of time, or whether Google has decided to effectively take ownership of the dailystormer.com domain permanently"

Wait, what, they can do this? So if I get Google to host my domain they can just take it at will? Given the value of some domains that's insane. Google must be on shaky legal ground here.
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CaptSpify 3223 days ago
I was surprised by this too, but Google is one of the biggest kids on the playground right now, so I guess it's natural for them to throw their weight around.

Obvious note: Outsourcing your stuff to a 3rd party like that is risky, and should be considered so

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peoplewindow 3221 days ago
It's not really about them being a big kid in the playground ... they're surely a minor player in the DNS hosting market.

It's more that their internal extremism means they feel justified in doing this sort of thing because they feel 'dangerous' speech must be suppressed.

I am concluding that Google is no longer trustworthy enough to run a search engine.

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