I was reading somewhere today (please tell me where if you know) that google registered the domain googlemastercard.com. It never really surprised me, as PayPal has their mastercard for business accounts. But then an acquaintance of mine (who also has the google addiction) was digging around through some whois information and found that they have also registered googlecredit.com.
Registrant:
Google Inc.
(DOM-1368019)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA
94043
US
Domain Name: googlecredit.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin
(NIC-1467103)
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA
94043
US
dns-admin@google.com
+1.6502530000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Admin
(NIC-1467103)
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA
94043
US
dns-admin@google.com
+1.6502530000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Created on..............: 2004-Sep-26.
Expires on..............: 2007-Sep-26.
Record last updated on..: 2005-May-05 15:42:55.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.GOOGLE.COM
NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM
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This isn't based on any facts or evidence, but wouldn't it be neat if Google created their own credit card company like mastercard or visa? "We accept visa, mastercard and google". Since they are getting into the "merchant services" arena anyway, why not this?
1 comment:
Many companies, mostly charities universities, offer mastercard to individuals through partner banks, the banks then donate a percetage of all their profits gained from the use of the cards to the charity in question. Many companies do this also, such as Ryanair, I thus speculate that google merely wants ot offer ts own card, many people would like flashing the google logo in shops, and google makes more money
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