[Gllug] OT: domain name appears on google by magic!

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:49:04AM -0300, Robert McKay wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:06:47PM +0100, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
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> 
> Some organisations have access to the GTLD zonefiles (you can get these 
> from ICANN by signing their license and paying some money.) and maybe
> some of them generate webpages automatically containing extracts of 
> the data that google then indexes. I wouldn't be surprised if google
> actually did this directly itself, and certainly I think it's very
> unlikely that extract data from the zones has never been leaked to 
> google in this way.

Rob,

Thanks for an expansive answer. Very helpful.

I think the ICANN one is a prime candidate! Whatever it is it seems
that google use an approach that others do not.

> finally.. you typed your domainname into google. Maybe it indexes itself? ;)

I wondered about that. If it does it hasn't yet (first tried it this
morning). I've searched for keywords that appear in my pages but
no hits, despite a hit for the top url itself. I'll try it again in
a few days and see what happens.

> There are so many ways it could have obtained your domainname it's 
> probably impossible to ever know which one was responsible.

Agreed. I'm not hung up on nailing this, just curious about the
possibilities. Thanks again for your reply,

Ben
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