AdSense.com Now Owned by Google
Posted by jonathan at 1:37pm EST on 11/03/2006
AdSense.com has been owned by an advertising consulting agency for quite some time. The company, AdSense, owned the domain quite some time before Google ever released their product of AdSense. AdSense.com never went to court about suing Google over the name copyright violations, but they did receive some added traffic to their site because so many people thought that they were going to Google’s AdSense.
AdSense.com is now owned by Google. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. The company that owned AdSense.com may have given it up freely or they may have been forced to give it up. Nissan.com went through a lawsuit battle over their domain as well, could this be similar?
But in the end, AdSense.com just goes to Google.com now — which seems kind of weird..maybe it should redirect to google.com/adsense? Maybe that’s just me though.
History Timeline of AdSense.com
- October 16, the owner was still AdSense Consulting
- October 23, the domain was transferred to MarkMonitor.com
- October 31, the domains registrant was set to “Trout & Zimmer”
- November 1, the domain was officially in the hands of Google
Domain Whois of AdSense.com:
Registrant:
Google Inc.
(DOM-1550091)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
CA
94043 US
Domain Name: adsense.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin
(NIC-14290820)
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
CA
94043 US
Thanks RealGeek.
TechZ
Nov 5th, 2006
I actually neve thought of visiting adsense.com, if I did I would assume Google already owned it.
Jonathan Dingman
Nov 6th, 2006
Yeah you would assume they did own it, but they didn’t own it for quite some time — mainly because it was already a company before hand. A little mean of Google to create a product named after a company that had already existed…