Just over a week ago, on June 18, I wrote about Google filing a trademark application for “Photovine” and speculated that the company owned the domain name, photovine.com, after the Whois records switched to MarkMonitor and DNStination from its previous owner.
Now it’s official — Google owns the domain, photovine.com.
On June 23, the Whois record started showing Google as the owner.
Registrant:
DNS Admin
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
Domain Name: photovine.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www. markmonitor.com
Created on…………..: 2004-10-28.
Expires on…………..: 2013-10-28.
Record last updated on..: 2011-06-23.
Domain servers in listed order:
gdm1.photovine.com
gdm0.photovine.com
You might also notice that the domain has its own nameservers, right now though, no other domain names are located there.
Google has not officially announced anything about Photovine, however there has been a lot of online discussion about what the service may be, based on the trademark application.
As of today, a message on the website simply reads: Nothing to see here, move along.
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