Google finally owns Adsense.com

Three years after Google launched its Adsense service, the company finally owns the Adsense.com domain. Previously, the domain was owned by Adsense Consulting, who bought the domain in 1996.

As one can notice below, the domain has been bought by google only recently:

Whois Record
Registrant:
Google Inc. (DOM-1550091)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
Domain Name: adsense.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-14290820) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
+1.6506234000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-14290820) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
+1.6506234000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Created on..............: 1997-Feb-23.
Expires on..............: 2008-Feb-24.
Record last updated on..: 2006-Oct-31 20:09:57.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.GOOGLE.COM NS2.GOOGLE.COM NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM

At present Adsense.com is redirecting to Google.com but I surely expect that to change in the near future