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August 12, 2004

Finding Newly Registered Domain Names

A thread at WebmasterWorld named Psychic Google? discusses Google's physic ability to locate newly registered domain names soon after they are registered. For example, if you buy a new domain name today, you might find the "coming soon" page in the index without you linking to it. I am of the belief that Google is finding it via a link from some page.

People are speculating that if you have the toolbar installed, Google can find new pages. I doubt they do that. And an other theory is the the domain name registrars are selling these names to Google. Come on!

posted rustybrick in Search Engine Optimization at August 12, 2004 9:16 AM Comments (4)

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I don't know if that's true. Most web hosting companies have started advertising on the parked domains or domains that have not yet been hosted. Perhaps a link to that domain is placed in one of their pages that search engines index.

Google has "Adsense" or something like that for parked domains. Perhaps domain registrants are pinging google to encourage them to publish ad sense ? I don't have a clue on this one.

 

Posted by bhupen at March 22, 2007 00:29

I just registered a domain and I have no link to it anywhere, not using Google toolbar or anything the like. However, I can find it already using google. It seems there is no other way they could have found it unless they get a list of newly registered domains from the providers or they actually try random string values as domain names.

 

Posted by John at July 1, 2007 22:28

The answer is most likely DNS. All domain names are sent to DNS servers around the globe, at ISP's everywhere.
All Google has to do is compare its current list to an updated list, and it then knows of new domains. Anyone with a DNS server can do this.

 

Posted by John R at July 29, 2007 00:00

building a website....got a domian and do not know what to do from here...seeking assistance on what steps to take to find out what i do with the domani and how do i find it..in order to get the websiet for my new business up and running?

 

Posted by nonihustler at December 29, 2007 00:05

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