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		bjclark on Oct 14, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox Acquires The Domain Everyone Thought It Ha... I thought google just bought dropbox.com? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=857101

mbrubeck on Oct 14, 2009 [–]

The domain owner had set the DNS to point to the Google App Engine servers. Google was never directly involved.

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