news Google Moves All Its Blogs To A New Domain Name: GoogleBlog.com

[Arpit131]

Starting today Google is moving all its blogs to a new domain to help people recognize when they’re reading an official blog from Google. The new domain name is GoogleBlog.com.


These changes will roll out to all of Google’s blogs over time. The Google Webmaster Central blog is one of the first to move to the new domain name and now has a new address: webmasters.googleblog.com.


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[alcy]

I guess that means .com is the hottest new extension in town

let's get regging and buy her all out!

 

[carob]

Wow way to crash the .xyz market.

 

[Ali]

why not www.blog.google ?

Why not Blog.xyz?

 

[carob]

The dot google makes more sense. Check this out: https://www.registry.google/

So who is going to buy that .boo extension? Ghosts ?

 

[domainerfella]

Why not Googleblog.xyz?

 

[Chris Rice]

Makes me think about their .App purchase for 25 million, wondering if it was acquired Primarily as a defensive registration.

I believe it was definitely a defensive purchase. Their Google Play store is the Apple App Store's only major competitor.

 

[RU]

Why not Blog.xyz?

The dot google makes more sense. Check this out: https://www.registry.google/

 

[RU]

.blog

Priority #: 191 - Radix (Personals TLD Inc.)
358 - Top Level Domain Holdings
713 - Donuts (Corn Shadow, LLC)
739 - Afilias
891 - Merchant Law Group LLP
1153 - BET Inc.
1285 - Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.)
1607 - Top Level Design
1820 - Primer Nivel
http://icannwiki.com/.blog

 

[RU]

So who is going to buy that .boo extension? Ghosts ?

Chinese

 

[RU]

Why not Googleblog.xyz?

domainerfella.google.blog looks more professional than domainerfella.googleblog.xyz

 

[Chris Rice]

That's a 'step by step - transform' I think.

I am sure they will register google.blog (when this TLD becomes available) as next step.
Ok, that was not difficult to guess and yes, of course as brand protection - but I think that's not the only reason.

I think they are 'collecting' their 'businesses fields in form of domains' to use them at least as forwarding domains for their specific domains in future.

http://who.is/whois/google.plus
http://who.is/whois/google.cars
http://who.is/whois/google.domains
http://who.is/whois/google.news
...

Great point. They might announce a similar domain like GoogleNews.com, GoogleDomains.com, GooglePlus.com etc. In the same way they announced all the abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com domains.

As I have said before. This is a well orchestrated marketing plan. They are building hype around domain extensions with everyone trying to guess their next move.

 

[Chris Rice]

Yes, but...

googledomains.com > domains.google.com > that's a .com subdomain
googlenews.com > news.google > that's a .google* domain

So it would not be the same.

So Google have to decide (if they haven't allready) which one of those 'domain' - domains they will use in future as their 'main domain' for their 'domain' - domain and which one they will use as forwarding 'domain' - domain/s to their main 'domain' - domain:

domains.google.com (current main 'domain' - domain)
OR
domains.google (no current use)
OR
google.domains (current use as forwarding domain to their main 'domain' - domaindomains.google.com)

I think at the end, in future, they will only use their own TLD .google* for all their products / websites.

* TLD .google http://icannwiki.com/.google

Great catch. I actually misread the text. Thanks for correcting me.

It would make more sense to use blog.google than google.blog in my opinion (more professional). So in that sense, I agree with you.

But the phrase "Blog Google" doesn't sound as nice as "Google Blog". So it really depends. I don't think they will use Google.Blog but if they do, it will be a dramatic move by Alphabet and turn domaining on its head. It would be good for GTLDs, especially if they followed the move by using domains like Google.Domains, Verily.Blog, Jigsaw.Blog etc.

At this point we don't know but we are learning more everyday.

Google can use .Google but Alphabet doesn't have the rights to .ABC. So unless they register and win the rights to .Alphabet, .XYZ would be their best choice.

 

[RU]

why not www.blog.google ?

 

[Chris Rice]

Why not Google.blog ??

 

[RU]

Why not Google.blog ??

cuz the .blog doesn't exist yet.

 

[carob]

Maybe they did it for SEO reasons.

 

[Chris Rice]

Why not Blog.xyz?

I think their move to GoogleBlog.com is more of an indication that they will eventually move to Google.blog or G.blog.

Keep in mind that Google will be selling more domain extensions in the future so they will ultimately end up promoting them.

I did not check yet but they might also own the extension .blog.

P.S. G.xyz is reserved for Google. I am not sure if it will be a consumer facing site though but I hope it will be.

 

[Chris Rice]

Why not Blog.xyz?

Actually, your question makes sense. As silly as it sounds since it would be a gigantic game changer, Blog.xyz is available for purchase for less than $3,000.00 USD a year.

A lot of the domain names are marked as available but get cancelled once you try to register.

 

[Ali]

Actually, your question makes sense. As silly as it sounds since it would be a gigantic game changer, Blog.xyz is available for purchase for less than $3,000.00 USD a year.

A lot of the domain names are marked as available but get cancelled once you try to register.

I was only joking

 

[Chris Rice]

Why not Blog.xyz?

Blog.xyz would be a better domain than their current Blogger.com domain.

The XYZ extension would indicate that it was a company by Alphabet, and each domain that is registered under .XYZ would further promote their Alphabet company.

 

[domainerfella]

domainerfella.google.blog looks more professional than domainerfella.googleblog.xyz

I was being sarcastic.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

That's a 'step by step - transform' I think.

I am sure they will register google.blog (when this TLD becomes available) as next step.
Ok, that was not difficult to guess and yes, of course as brand protection - but I think that's not the only reason.

I think they are 'collecting' their 'businesses fields in form of domains' to use them at least as forwarding domains for their specific domains in future.

http://who.is/whois/google.plus
http://who.is/whois/google.cars
http://who.is/whois/google.domains
http://who.is/whois/google.news
...

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Great point. They might announce a similar domain like GoogleNews.com, GoogleDomains.com, GooglePlus.com etc. In the same way they announced all the abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com domains.

As I have said before. This is a well orchestrated marketing plan. They are building hype around domain extensions with everyone trying to guess their next move.

The similar registration date of your mentioned domains is also interesting:

googleplus.com reg 2002
googlecars.com reg 2002
googledomains.com reg 2003
googlenews.com reg 2003

 

[TRY]

Makes me think about their .App purchase for 25 million, wondering if it was acquired Primarily as a defensive registration.