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		sneak on May 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping ... They didn't surrender their domain name - they're just using them as registrar. Google still runs their own authoritative DNS servers.

bobds on May 5, 2012 [–]

Google is also a registrar (I think just for .com/.net domains). I guess they don't want to deal with dozens of ccTLDs.

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