Google Is Now A Domain Registrar

[Nexus]

Whoops... Looks like Dnforum member izopod's FIRST prediction for 2005 has REARED ITS MASSIVE HEAD!
http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=77742&page=1&pp=15

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/01/31/google_is_now_a_domain_registrar.html

Google is now an ICANN-accredited registrar of domain names, providing it with yet another potential line of expansion. The fast-growing search provider is approved to sell names in seven top-level domains (TLDs) including .com, .net, .org, .biz., info, .name and .pro.
Google's registrar status, first noted by LexText, is likely to prompt speculation about its ambitions in web hosting and blogging. Google operates Blogger, the free blog hosting service with a huge user base. Cheap or free domain names could prove useful to Google in the notoriously price-sensitive blog hosting sector, where most bloggers use subdomains (i.e. myblog.bloghost.com) rather than full domain names (www.myblog.com).

~ Nexus

 

[darrenl]

Say good bye to alot of domain registrars. Google will be able to price their domains incredibly low, putting alot of other registrars out of business.

 

[Nexus]

It's a question whether they'll even compete on that level. Considering they serve lots of as for this service, it would really stick in the craw of their customers if Google started offering the same products, be it domain registration or eventually web hosting. That said, they'd certainly be in a position to put together a sweet package. An end-to-end small business solution for Internet presence management (PPC via AdWords, domain name registration, web hosting, product promotion via Froogle)... I'm sure someone at Google is bubbling about it.

For those watching the list...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids

I was checking around the 4th, and they'd only been up to 841. Google's update came on the 28th I guess, ringing in as registrar 895... They're piling in, folks...

~ Nexus

 

[izopod]

that was quick! :blush:

 

[Nexus]

that was quick! :blush:

Yeah... anything else you want to hint at izo, just let me know ahead of time so I can cast a wager against some poor sucker. :wink:

~ Nexus

 

[mike031]

i love google :-/

 

[izopod]

Yeah... anything else you want to hint at izo, just let me know ahead of time so I can cast a wager against some poor sucker. :wink:

~ Nexus

Will do...

 

[Theo]

Is this why the stock jumped up from $175 to $195 ?

 

[Poker]

Is this why the stock jumped up from $175 to $195 ?

No, it was just moving along with the Nasdaq.

 

[Bart]

Completely offtopic, but I bought some March puts yesterday...
GOOG earningscall is today (feb 01) and I'm hoping for an EBAY-like selloff.

 

[JumpingJack]

Doubt they will become a domain name seller. Like that news clip says, it's probably for other uses, like offering domain names to bloggers. Not to specifically just offer them to anyone. But you know google, they wouldn't become a registrar for nothing... obviously they have some big plans.

 

[typeins]

Hopefully they do become a domain name seller.. i could see google coming up with some really cool features that other registars have failed to implement.

 

[Dr. Domaining]

Luckily, I own Google stock so I am only pleased by the news!!!

 

[nas7782]

wow.

 

[lz83ny]

Google is the best!

 

[fatter]

hopefully they will incorperate, paid domain parking for lower traffic names

 

[Theo]

google announced they are not going to be registering domains as an open registrar.

 

[OgieOgalthorpe]

Say good bye to alot of domain registrars. Google will be able to price their domains incredibly low, putting alot of other registrars out of business.

Wonder if they'll take Yahoo head on, on Y! $4.99 deal.

 

[Chaiki]

Surprised Microsoft doesn't have a rar yet.

 

[thekingz]

Surprised Microsoft doesn't have a rar yet.

Yes me too as they are one of the top Computer base business and has lots of money they could do it easy! As they alrready run numous servers for like Xboxlive, hotmail, msn and other sites they own! They should because a domain registar and a web hositng places!

I thinking they could compete with Yahoo and Google if they wanted!