2005-08-01: Survey of Google's Internet domains and DNS.
Besides their main website, Google has registered thousands of domains. In July Google added over five hundred, the largest monthly total in the last five years.Larger networks are often home to several authoritative nameservers and Google's is no exception (we found twenty-seven).
A comprehensive survey of a particular network will include:
- Authoritative nameservers on the network
- Authoritative nameservers in IP ranges advertised via BGP
- Domains registered to those nameservers and when they appeared
Knowing which domains your competitors are registering will give you an insight to where their business is going.
Sample Google reports:
In July 2005 we discovered over 500 new Google domain registrations, the largest monthly total in the last five years. | |
Twenty-seven authoritative nameservers were found on Google's network, shown here in order of size (# of domains served). | |
Reviewing a BGP route table at the time of writing confirms that the networks being routed to Google's ASN (15169) are the same ones allocated by Arin. |
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