Google has acquired the shortest possible domain name, G.cn, which redirects to Google.cn. This is a huge time-saver for people.
Here are the domain details available.
Domain Name: g.cn
ROID: 20030310s10001s00019336-cn
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: Google Ireland Holdings
Registrant Name: Google Ireland Holdings
Sponsoring Registrar: MarkMonitor, Inc.
Name Server:dns7.hichina.com
Name Server:dns8.hichina.com
Registration Date: 2003-03-10 19:58
Expiration Date: 2012-08-24 17:48
But then after checking over the header of the domain, this returns:
#1 Server Response: http://www.g.cn
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.cn/webhp?source=g_cn
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Server: gws
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:13:01 GMT
Connection: Close
Redirect Target: http://www.google.cn/webhp?source=g_cn
Interesting. A 302 redirect?
