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Luca [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, May 9, 2006
18 years ago2,870 views

i was diggin netcraft.com for google subdomains , and i found

http://kickit2.google.com/ who point to a blank page
and
wam.google.com who pint to 127.0.0.1 (localhost)

anyone have an idea of what they meaning of ?

Ss [PersonRank 1]

18 years ago #

its not www domain

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

The wam.google.com subdomain has been discussed on this forum before. We seem to think it's something to do with Google Desktop:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-03-31.html#n84

I'm not sure what kickit2.google.com could be for though – I saw this on Netcraft the other day and added it to my list of subdomains (which, by the way, I try to keep up to date as much as possible):

http://ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/google-subdomains.txt

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