Germans news magazine heise.de reported that the domain YouTube.de is now in the hands of YouTube Inc.
[Holder]
Type: ORG
Name: YouTube, Inc
Address: 2nd Floor 71 E. Third Avenue
Pcode: CA 94401
City: SanMateo
Country: US
The current page shows a DeNic entry telling about “some administrative problems”:
Other domains Google/YouTube does not yet own:
YouTube.ch – Just a matter of time until YouTube tells Matthias Moench in the Czech Republic to hand over the domain name. And the website has some stupid content right now
YouTube.li – Señora Barbara is from Spain
YouTube.it – Uhrgs, looks like linkspam
YouTube.co.uk – Here comes the CPC page
YouTube.fr – belongs to a German guy. So maybe the noise about a French YouTube version next weeks is false? But it has an Alexa rank of around 90’000 and no content.
YouTube.be – ugly popup with ugly javascript. Again, pretty good Alexarank with no content.
YouTube.lu – no content
YouTube.no – non active website
YouTube.eu – no website
YouTube.dk – parked
YouTube.net – copy of a “Million Dollar Page”
Domains owned by nobody:
YouTube.gr (Greece) – get it while you can (but don’t do it because I said so!!)
YouTube.cy (Cyprus) – get it while you can (but don’t do it because I said so!!)
Domains they own:
YouTube.at – no content
YouTube.nl – no content
YouTube.pt – no content
YouTube.org – no content
This list can go on but Google would lose. YouTube.* domains are more often owned by individuals than by Google or YouTube Inc. Take your popcorn and wait for the lawyers.