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My friend calls me and says he wants to reg a domain and which registrar should he use.
Given that he does not know much about domains, I gave him the easiest option: google domains, since he already has a gmail account.
He calls me back and says he gets error (see below), as domains.google.com forwards to google.domains
So I advised him a little trick: type in domains.google.com/registrar (in this case, no forwarding).
This just illustrates another problem with new gtlds. They often don't make it through corporate firewalls. Since I am not expert, I'd appreciate opinion why this happens and why companies of Google size cannot anticipate/resolve this and just lose business.
But to me, this is another reason I'd not recommend my client to go with non-traditional domains, unless it is something perfect like usa.news, food.shop etc. for reasonable price.
This site can’t be reached
google.domains’s server DNS address could not be found.
Given that he does not know much about domains, I gave him the easiest option: google domains, since he already has a gmail account.
He calls me back and says he gets error (see below), as domains.google.com forwards to google.domains
So I advised him a little trick: type in domains.google.com/registrar (in this case, no forwarding).
This just illustrates another problem with new gtlds. They often don't make it through corporate firewalls. Since I am not expert, I'd appreciate opinion why this happens and why companies of Google size cannot anticipate/resolve this and just lose business.
But to me, this is another reason I'd not recommend my client to go with non-traditional domains, unless it is something perfect like usa.news, food.shop etc. for reasonable price.
This site can’t be reached
google.domains’s server DNS address could not be found.
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