services Google Launches Domain Registrar Service in India

[Nikhil Jain]

"In a bid to bolster its presence in India, search engine giant Google has stealthily launched its web domain registrar servicein the country. Dubbed as Google Domains, the service, which will compete with the likes of GoDaddy, Hostgator, Bluehost, Namecheap and BigRock, has not been announced publicly yet.

Currently available in beta phase, Google Domains sports a simple interface that is easy to use. The domain registrar service assists customers in purchasing domains and even setting them up.

At the time of registration, a customer is given a list of options, including the choice to hide the details they are about to submit to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. For the uninitiated, ICANN is a non-profit organisation that handles the maintenance of databases related to namespaces of the Internet.

Once the purchase has been made, the Google Domains service guides users through the process of setting up the domain, including configuration of DNS.

Unlike other domain registrars that offer discounts and freebies for every purchase, Google is currently not providing any incentive or deals to customers. Some domain registrars even offer custom email addresses at no charge. Google, however, requires customers to purchase customised email addresses by signing up for its paid software service, GSuite.

Furthermore, the pricing of the domain registrar service is slightly higher than what most competitors are offering. At present, a .com domain on Google Domains is priced at $13.2 (INR 860), while a .co.in domain is available for $12.1 (INR 790) per year. Compared to that, GoDaddy and BigRock often offer .com domains for a discounted price as low as $1.5 (INR 99)"

Source:
https://inc42.com/buzz/google-domain-registrar-search-engine/amp/

 

[DesignPros]

Google suite domain service is really bad. nameservers are always down.

 

[offthehandle]

Google, however, requires customers to purchase customised email addresses by signing up for its paid software service, GSuite.

What does customised mean? “And Gsuite”, what if a customer has no interest in using googles services... this sounds intrusive, right? Can’t a customer simply create their own email addresses based off their domain and website?

 

[platey]

Google got the search engine so right they got Gmail so right they got dstreetview and maps etc plus many other things eg driverless cars flying cars etc right they will get domains right and if they could yet get domain parking right too

The price of the domain at Google is ok

Google could make a fortune from offering a free domain name parking service with ad sense and putting those landing page website in its listings thus making it more expensive for businesses to be ranked on page 1

 

[Business Brands]

In our opinion, reintroduction of Google Adsense For Domains will be beneficial to advertisers, Google and domain holders, if it accepts generic keyword domain names only.

 

[lock]

If google could sell you your bread and milk they will. Let them do what they are good at and not monopolize the entire internet.

 

[Rajnish Prasad]

"In a bid to bolster its presence in India, search engine giant Google has stealthily launched its web domain registrar servicein the country. Dubbed as Google Domains, the service, which will compete with the likes of GoDaddy, Hostgator, Bluehost, Namecheap and BigRock, has not been announced publicly yet.

Currently available in beta phase, Google Domains sports a simple interface that is easy to use. The domain registrar service assists customers in purchasing domains and even setting them up.

At the time of registration, a customer is given a list of options, including the choice to hide the details they are about to submit to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. For the uninitiated, ICANN is a non-profit organisation that handles the maintenance of databases related to namespaces of the Internet.

Once the purchase has been made, the Google Domains service guides users through the process of setting up the domain, including configuration of DNS.

Unlike other domain registrars that offer discounts and freebies for every purchase, Google is currently not providing any incentive or deals to customers. Some domain registrars even offer custom email addresses at no charge. Google, however, requires customers to purchase customised email addresses by signing up for its paid software service, GSuite.

Furthermore, the pricing of the domain registrar service is slightly higher than what most competitors are offering. At present, a .com domain on Google Domains is priced at $13.2 (INR 860), while a .co.in domain is available for $12.1 (INR 790) per year. Compared to that, GoDaddy and BigRock often offer .com domains for a discounted price as low as $1.5 (INR 99)"

Source:
https://inc42.com/buzz/google-domain-registrar-search-engine/amp/

The INR 99 on Godaddy is only for one time purchase of a single .com domain. not everytime you purchase.

 

[platey]

In our opinion, reintroduction of Google Adsense For Domains will be beneficial to advertisers, Google and domain holders, if it accepts generic keyword domain names only.

It won't much matter the quality of the domain name as the amount of ads $`s a person's domain name landing page or profile page within a Google domains website gets is a good indicator of how good the domain name is