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Google Becomes Domain Registrar, Why?

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Good! They Listened to me! lol!
 
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So the question is: why become a registrar if you're not going to sell domains?
Who says a registrar has or needs to sell domain names to end users?

Google probably did that to enhance their search abilities, gather data, and
use that to enhance or offer new services. Apparently it is still a worthwhile
investment for them.
 
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I thought they already were a registrar. I guess I was recalling the news that they applied.

.PRO is in there. I suppose they just went for the gTLD's.


between the DNS and WHOIS, there's a LOT of information for google to assimilate. watching future changes and trends will be valuable info, too.
 
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Hmm, for some reason I recall Google being registrar for quite a while now. I remember seeing Google a long time ago on the ICANN accredited registrar list. They just arent providing registrations to end users at this time.

Are they working on providing end users with a nice registration system? Perhaps. But only time will tell. For the time being, it looks like they are just a registrar for the sake of being one and for their own use.
 
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This is a very old news.
 
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gemsergio said:
This is a very old news.
Yup, while trying a possibly new perspective. Not that it's really much anyway.
 
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cdboard said:
.PRO is in there. I suppose they just went for the gTLD's.
No, Google expressly asked for .Pro to be bundled with the other rubbish. A spokesman said that now they have made all their shareholders very rich, it's about time they helped out akcampbell.
 
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I have registered a few names through them about 10 months or so ago, using some of their google aps and hosting. Basically good for family sites and what not is what I used it for. Coupled with gmail, it actually works very well.

I have something like xxxxfamily.net through them. There are about 10 members of my family that use it for [email protected] email. Then they just collect all their other email in there as well. One stop shopping. Share a calander, docs, etc.

OK, I like google. I know I shouldn't but they just make it to easy to give them big huggy-wuggies.
 
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Google became a registrar in 2005 I think, so this is nothing new. As the article states, they did it to gain access to the information registrars get and access to the master domain database. Probably to leverage the keyword part of domains for adsense.
 
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Dave Zan said:
Who says a registrar has or needs to sell domain names to end users?

Google probably did that to enhance their search abilities, gather data, and
use that to enhance or offer new services. Apparently it is still a worthwhile
investment for them.


:bingo:

To have access to the registry ...
 
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They just realized that domain tasting is very profitable!!! :hehe:

Cheers,

Frank
 
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Nice.. Google seems to be taking over the internet. Monopoly.. Cartel.. Conglomerate

They can change life.. for gd or worse
They could ruin the world :P

Kiddin. It was a good move :D
 
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Just another step of many for google to take over the world. I dont understand how huge companies like Microsoft can get sued for monopolization and google hasnt yet... mail, phones, domains, hosting, phone toll free directory, street view, mad more other craziness too. I do love google though.. Thanks for this info.
 
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One day, Google will come up with a new extension .goog or .go
 
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Maybe they're going to become one in future?

It would surprise us all :)
 
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Yes they became a registrar back in Jan of 2005 - and the purpose (although at the time it was limited to 8 domain tlds) was for the access to the entire domain backend database for sniffing out link partnerships (round-robin linking) and to combat the prolific use of expiring domains (especially from DMOZ at the time) with PageRank still attached, to populate backlinks for instant popularity for your own sites.

This led to a common misunderstanding when Google placed some filters based on the domain database into effect that there was something called a "sandbox" - which really was just a filter based on how you were obtaining links and how quickly you got links based on domain registration

More importantly - today we see huge sales of domains being made based on the existing PR (the fake toolbar green thingy Google added in their toolbar for WMs to gaze at) - when as soon as the domain is transferred Google installs a filter that zeros out any previous popularity and page rank - at least as soon as their bot catches the move - and there are a lot of WMs out there that are going to be sorely dissapointed riding this "catch a domain with PR" wave - I have to laugh every time I see someone post in the SE forums about why they are now in the "sandbox" after they bought all of these domains with PR :blink:
 
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Yeah, that new's site often times just republishes stuff. I think that article they republished was from back in 2005 when the original announcement was made.

Vint Cerf said Google became a registrar to know when domains were expired for search engine results purporses. That didn't work thanks to changes in expired domain markets:

http://domainnamewire.com/2006/07/14/domain-name-reassignment-foils-google/
 
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to register tm'ed before tm squatters do
 
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Google Becomes Domain Registrar?

Most Google services is associated with FREE web servises. As result many websites consider activity vith it as fraud. (for example e-mail: [email protected]) And what is it domain with registrar Google? Who knows?
 
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If you read about the whole article it mentioned a browser possibly being made by google...now that would be interesting ;)


:)
 
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PowerUp said:
One day, Google will come up with a new extension .goog or .go


Or .goo ... I like it.

~Jose
 
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Google Became Domain Registrar,Why not? they are expanding their business.
 
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