Google Domains
Google Domains is an internet domain name registration service offered by Google.[2]
Area served | Australia Brazil Canada France India Indonesia Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Spain Thailand United Kingdom United States Vietnam[1] |
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Industry | Domain name registration |
URL | domains |
Commercial | yes |
Launched | June 13, 2014 |
Google Domains offers domain registration (including private domain registration), DNS hosting, DNSSEC, Dynamic DNS, domain forwarding, and email forwarding.[3] It also offers one-click DNS configuration that connects the domains with Blogger, Google Sites, Squarespace, Wix.com, Weebly and Shopify.[4][5] The service is accredited by ICANN.
Google Domains was publicly launched under a beta test mode on January 13, 2015[3] and still remains in beta as of March 2020.
Trivia
On September 29, 2015, a former Google employee Sanmay Ved managed to buy the Google.com domain from Google via Google Domains, and gain full webmaster control.[6] Google later acknowledged the purchase, and rewarded Ved with the sum of 6006.13 dollars. He in turn asked to donate the reward to charities.[7] As a result, Google doubled the amount. The reason for the unusual amount was that it should represent the Google lettering.[8]
References
- Is Google Domains available in my country?
- Kumparak, Greg (June 23, 2014). "Google Gets Into Domain Sales". TechCrunch.
- Perez, Sarah (January 13, 2015). "Google Domains Launches To All In U.S. With Support For Blogger Integration, Templates And More Domain Endings". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- Lisota, Kevin (January 15, 2015). "Google Domains: Useful for some small business owners, but useless in many cases". GeekWire. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- Pinola, Melanie (January 13, 2015). "You Can Now Buy and Sell Domain Names on Google Domains". LifeHack. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- Carson, Biz (30 September 2015). "This guy bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute". Business Insider. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- Carson, Biz (8 October 2015). "Google rewarded the guy who bought Google.com, and he donated it all to charity". Business Insider. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Finderlohn für Domain - Kurzzeitiger Kauf von Google.com bringt 12.000 Dollar". spiegel.de (in German). Spiegel Online. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2019.