After years of dispute, Google sells the domain 'duck.com' to DuckDuckGo

It can be quite frustrating that your main competitor has a domain that interests you. That's what happened to DuckDuckGo, who spent several years trying to get 'duck.com' from Google.




It all started in 2010, when the Mountain View company acquired On2 Technologies (a company formerly known as The Duck Corporation).

Google bought On2 and the domain one year after DuckDuckGo was born. Google has hundreds of domains that point to your search engine (for example googel.com) and some DuckDuckGo users were surprised to enter 'duck.com' and end up in Google.

A few days ago, rumors began to emerge that Google might have changed its mind, and now NamePros has been in charge of confirming the transfer. Of course, at the moment it is unknown how much they have had to pay Google to release this domain.
DuckDuckGo thanks Google for changing its mind

Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, thanked his rival for this gesture of goodwill, since from now on it will be much easier to access the search engine of his company.

These words of gratitude contrast with those published in the month of July in a tweet, when they complained that Google confused users (since those who came to Google through duck.com could see a link to DuckDuckGo).

    Google also owns https://t.co/ud1YyoqbZ5 and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users.
    - DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) July 18, 2018

At this moment the change is already active, and if we write duck.com in our browser we will go directly to DuckDuckGo.

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