Domain seems to be registered to a Paul Von Ribbeck with a gmail address, not a google address... makes me doubt its authenticity. A quick google search of Ribbeck brings up this: http://re-publica.de/user/1008/event/1
"Dr. Paul von Ribbeck considers himself both pro-tech and a digital protection evangelist. He is guided by his unwavering belief in the possibility of technology to solve the problems created by civilization. With a MSc from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University in information security, he is now leading a team of 50 developers, mathematicians, lawyers and designers to build up the first global digital data insurance within the home of Google Nest."
Yes, but it's not one that Google will probably take kindly to given there's no indication on the site other than it's ridiculous and the whois e-mail. Even the whois registrant information is fraudulently attributed to Google.
A little digging suggests it's a prank being pulled by the Peng Collective[1] - "Paul von Ribbeck", to whom the domain is registered, is a previous nomme de guerre of Jean Peters.
I was so close to buying a nest when they released ones compatible with my system. Then Google bought them a few days afterwards and I couldn't be less interested now. Its just one of those things, I do what I can to hide from Google now, the last thing I want them having dominion of is precisely when I am in and out of my house.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 45.1 ms ] threadDomain seems to be registered to a Paul Von Ribbeck with a gmail address, not a google address... makes me doubt its authenticity. A quick google search of Ribbeck brings up this: http://re-publica.de/user/1008/event/1
"Dr. Paul von Ribbeck considers himself both pro-tech and a digital protection evangelist. He is guided by his unwavering belief in the possibility of technology to solve the problems created by civilization. With a MSc from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University in information security, he is now leading a team of 50 developers, mathematicians, lawyers and designers to build up the first global digital data insurance within the home of Google Nest."
THIS IS JUST WEIRD AND AWKWARD. DISCUSS.
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-dig...
edit: nevermind; if I didn't have to check WhoIs data then I'm apparently ahead of the curve.
The first two were almost believable!
https://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0113.html
[1] http://www.peng-collective.net
The product ideas are very nice ones though.
http://pir.org/domains/org-domain/?domain=google-nest.org&su...