DuckDuckGo Acquires GoogleByNitish Singh-December 12, 2018.342 Duck. Com Domain NameWith DuckDuckGo now holding the domain name the Url no longer takes users to the Google website. For thousands of websites licensed or owned by Google over the years, Duck.com is not the only website Google has power over. Many of them have been obtained by acquisitions whereas others are clearly misrepresentations of the term Google itself or other items such as Gmail Chrome and others. This helps the tech giant avoid the production of fake websites to cheat users. Google also holds a variety of useful and short domain names including.com and.zero.com. Further news page.