registries Google Announces Nomulus! Open-Source Domain Registry Platform Will Power Their TLDs

[News]

Google just announced a major move into the domain registry back end services business with the launch of Nomulus, a new open source cloud-based registry platform that, in addition to powering Google’s own new TLDs (including their dotbrand extension - .google - and their generic TLDs like .app), is available to other registry operators as well.

We designed Nomulus to be a brand-new registry platform that takes advantage of the scalability and easy operation of Google Cloud Platform, McIlwain added. "Nomulus runs on Google App Engine and is backed by Google Cloud Datastore, a highly scalable NoSQL database. Nomulus can manage any number of TLDs in a single shared instance and supports the full range of TLD functionality required by ICANN.

Google has a phenomenal record of stability, an almost peerless engineering team, endless computing resources and global scale," Stahura added. "These are additional potential benefits for us and others who may contribute to or utilize the system. We have been happy to evaluate and contribute to this open source project over the past 20 months because this platform provides Donuts with an alternative back-end with significant benefits...

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[CJ6]

Meanwhile nomulus.com is parked at GoDaddy.

 

[RU]

Meanwhile nomulus.com is parked at GoDaddy.

 

[ZapNano]

Your domain?

 

[iTerminal]

Just did a Whois search...says "Repossessed by GoDaddy". Hmm.

 

[CJ6]

Just did a Whois search...says "Repossessed by GoDaddy". Hmm.

Sounds like Google might be getting a helping hand by GoDaddy.

 

[RU]

Your domain?

nope, i dont reg crap domains

 

[ZapNano]

 

[Name Trader]

Godaddy's actions sounds harsh to me. It's why I don't really trust them.

 

[ZapNano]

Was wondering why got repossessed.

 

[E-Promote]

a mispellers dream

 

[ZapNano]

Sounds like Google might be getting a helping hand by GoDaddy.

You can't hold smoke; truth will come out.

 

[TRY]

Perfect for selling subdomains.

 

[Arca]

Nom = name (in Latin)
Cumulus = A cloud

nom + cumulus = nomulus = name cloud

= brandable name for a cloud-based domain registry platform

 

[Chris Rice]

Google takes another step into the domain name industry.

If .XYZ fails the entire nGTLD will fail with it. That is why I believe Google is helping Daniel Negari in the background and will either acquire XYZ, or invest for a percentage of the company.

 

[MackieMesser]

Nom = name (in Latin)
Cumulus = A cloud

It's actually "nomen" and "cumulus" means pile. But there is a type of cloud called "cumulus cloud".

The found of Rome was - according to the legend - Romulus together with his brother Remus.

 

[GoKaizen]

http://www.domainnamenews.com/registries/google-publishes-their-tld-registry-software-nomulus/25381

@poing