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Google Purchases ChromeBook.com and ChromeBooks.com Domain Names

When firm purchased domains is unknown; neither domain resolves yet.

It appears that Google has purchased the domain names ChromeBook.com and ChromeBooks.comm but for some reason they aren’t using the domains yet for their recently-disclosed product.

On May 15 both domain names’ whois records switched to DNStination, Inc., an affiliate of brand protection firm MarkMonitor. Google has used DNStination in the past for domain name registrations it wanted to keep out of the public eye.

ChromeBook.com has been around for a while, having been registered back in 2000. Still, it has expired since then and was picked up by a Houston firm in January. Shortly thereafter the domain name was placed under whois privacy. It’s possible that Google purchased the domain name through MarkMonitor back in January and then placed it under whois privacy, just lifting that over the weekend.

ChromeBookS.com, on the other hand, has been protected by whois privacy for many years, and appears to be a more recent purchase.

My guess is we see both of these domain names start resolving soon.

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