According to Cnet.com “Google is reportedly getting ready to take on Dropbox with its own cloud-based storage service”.
“The service called Drive”….will allow users to upload photos, documents, and videos to Google servers for sharing with others and later retrieval””
Drive, which is expected to launch in the coming months, will be free for most consumers and business, with a premium service offered for those who want to store a large amount of files, the paper reported.
The domain name Drive.com has been owned for many years under semi privavy with a Paul Ginsburg listed as Administrative contact.
The domain name Drive.com inexplicably is going and has been going to a Network Solutions holding page. The domain does get traffic with an Alexa rank of 2.1m, and gets according to compete.com between 1K-5K per month. Of course that was before the news that Google is going with Drive.
The domain name TheDrive.com, is owned by Marchex.
“It Doesn’t Own Drive.com”
but surely has enough cash to buy it
or could buy this:
Domain Name: GCLOUD.COM
Registrar: MONIKER
found!
whois.domaintools.com/googlecloud.com
I believe they own gdrive.com…current whois is DNStination
You’d think they would have grabbed it, but bottom line reality is Google doesn’t need to own drive.com to make Drive successful.
Drive.com isn’t parked atm, it’s under construction.
This Site Is Under Construction and Coming Soon.
Dman
I didn’t say it was parked I said it was going to a NetSol placeholder
With all their money, the owner of drive.com is not going to sell for less than 7 figures now that this news is out, probably already hit with 20 offers.
Michael,
You did indeed, my bad!
They will be driving to the bank.
Google taking on Dropbox — but who will be the next cyberlocker service taken on by DOJ in a Mega-style bust? All these services are hated by Hollywood because the more useful they are the more they can facilitate infringement.
ICE didn’t stop at its first domain seizure, so why would DOJ stop at one prosecution?
Google tends to use subdomains for their products, so imagine they would do the same thing here. Course I could be wrong.
They would actually have to launch the thing before it matters.
The owner of Drive owns some other really top names like horoscopes.com crosswords.com and others.
I believe he fought off a lawsuit for the domain name Drive.com from an insurance or financial services company back in the day.
I tried to contact him for years, to no avail.