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Garrett Rogers of Googling Google, points out that Google has a relationship with Mark Monitor for the registration of its domains. Mark Monitor further has a relationship with Data Docket, a company that holds many domains that may be indicators of Google services to come (that do not contain the Google name).

A lot of noise has been made about Google’s upcoming gDrive service, as well as their Pagetastic service. The pagetastic domain is hosted on a network range owned by Google (despite the fact that DataDocket has the domain registered). A few searches across other IPs in that range reveals these domains also owned by Google: drivetastic.com, filephile.com. Kind of cool names. I wonder if they’ll be used instead of the name Gdrive?

3/27/07 Update:

I was reading Philipp Lenssen’s post on a Gdrive wishlist reminded me of this post. I did a bit of research and confirmed that Google still owns these domains. The current registrant is:

Registrant:
DNStination, Inc.
(DOM-1291683)
45 Fremont St.
Suite 1400
San Francisco
CA
94105
US

Domain Name: gdrive.com

Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

Administrative Contact:
domain admin
(NIC-14299489)
DNStination, Inc.
45 Fremont St.
Suite 1400
San Francisco
CA
94105
US
+1.2083895761
Fax- +1.2083895740
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
domain admin
(NIC-14299489)
DNStination, Inc.
45 Fremont St.
Suite 1400
San Francisco
CA
94105
US
+1.2083895761
Fax- +1.2083895740

This entity has also registered gdrive.com, and shares the same fax number as Data Docket (confirmed Google domain holding company). It also is registered through MarkMonitor.com, Google’s registrar.