Google Maps API Key: Inconsistency or Safeguard?

by AJ on April 26, 2007

For those who doesn’t know it yet, the Google Maps (API Key Signup here) uses different keys for domains appended with http:// and http://www. even though the domain name is the same.

I’m not exactly sure about the explanation, but here’s an example:

http://allanjosephbatac.com
API Key:
ABQIAAAAyfTN7Bk5Bn2nK6gcX0pz1hTiURkvBKy5aNM5Al
VjaMth86XzbRTUvwn0Wvi31Vf_GU4MM9_RLsT-7w

http://www.allanjosephbatac.com
API Key:
ABQIAAAAyfTN7Bk5Bn2nK6gcX0pz1hR8oJctqc-WteYRkaV
y6J7pQb9KGhR0e77LMAYCzXTob3_CwTVHlnNNLg

I also think that the encrypted hash came from reversing the domain name e.g. “moc.catabhpesojnalla//:ptth” since the last part of the API key is the one different.

Is it inconsistency or safeguard?

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