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google.com domain registered

The google.com domain was registered on September 15, 1997, while the search engine still ran at Stanford addresses. The name comes from "googol", 10 to the power of 100, as the authors themselves explain in the 1998 paper.

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September 15, 1997

google.com domain registration

Event · Search and discovery · Concluded

sources · timeline 1995–1999

Interpretive reconstruction · Academic web Conventions of the mid-1990s academic web: default browser grey background, serif type, underlined blue links. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

  • September 15, 1997 Date · exact date [1][2]

What the sources say

ClaimRecordConfidenceSources
Registration date September 15, 1997 3 · Secondary source [1] map (encyclopedia)[2] secondary
Name origin Common spelling of googol (10^100), chosen for the goal of building very large-scale search engines 2 · Single primary source [3] primary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

No archived capture has been located for this record yet.

Sources

  1. History of Google — Wikipedia. Source map (encyclopedia) · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
    Used only as a map; to be replaced by the sources cited in the article.
  2. 13 strange yet true things you may not know about Google — TechEBlog. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
  3. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (copy hosted by Stanford InfoLab) — Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page, 1998. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

  • Historical WHOIS record as a primary source

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “google.com” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"google.com domain registered", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/dominio-google-com-1997/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: dominio-google-com-1997 · Reviewed on November 2, 2026