Google Unleashes Domain Name Registration Service

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Google Unleashes Domain Name Registration Service

By CircleID Reporter
January 13, 2015, 7:06 pm PST Views: 9,029 Comments: 1

Kieren McCarthy reporting in the Register: “Google has launched its new domain-name management system, providing a clean and simple interface that will put it in direct competition with market leader GoDaddy. Called Google Domains, the service emerged from testing today and allows anyone in the United States (international expansion coming soon) to register domain names under just over 80 different gTLDs from dot-academy to dot-ventures. Domains cost $12 a year.”

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I was lucky enough to be able George Michaelson – Jan 13, 2015 11:14 PM

I was lucky enough to be able to use this in the pre-beta phase. and, its good. Its clean and its simple. If you have an investment in google identity space, this is worth exploring.

But please do note that the release is currently US only. Since many circleID readers may be offshore, bear in mind that without a US demonenated/bill-addressed CreditCard you cannot (yet) use this facility.

Happy to be corrected on that!

(BTW. as I understand it, significantly north of 50% of google revenue is now from outside the USA, so their tendency to release product to market inside the USA probably reflects the Mountain View realities more than financial planning, or revenge for the British attack on Washington DC when we burned down the white house)

-George

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