Google Is Now A Domain Registrar

[odditysoftware]

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.

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

 

[artkreator]

I hope the domains will be cheaper and they will accept Moneybookers as payment method.

 

[omnia]

It'll be intersesting to see how they use it. Perhaps as leverage for other parts of the business would be my guess. Time will tell.

 

[painperdu]

"The status also could give Google access to internal data on domain name ownership, which the company could use to better evaluate the credibility of Web sites indexed by the search engine, said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products."

Wouldn't this be against the ICANN WHOIS TOS?

"Don't be evil", eh? We'll see . . .

 

[zaros64]

google may take over the world