Google Domains
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| Developer(s) | |
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| Initial release | June 23, 2014 |
| Written in | English |
| Platform | Web |
| Website | domains |
Google Domains is a domain registration service offered by Google[1] which publicly launched in the United States on January 13, 2015.[2] It is currently still in the Beta stage.[2]
The service provides domain hosting, with free private domain registration, free email forwarding to any Gmail address, and free domain forwarding.[2] Google does not offer a website builder themselves, but offers website building with Squarespace, Wix.com, Weebly or Shopify.[3][4] Google also lets you connect your domain name and Blogger service.[3] Google offers over 60 domain names, like .company, .florist, and .coffee.[2]
On September 29, 2015, an former Google employee Sanmay Ved managed to buy the Google.com domain from Google via Google Domains, and gain full webmaster control.[5] Google later acknowledged the purchase, and rewarded Ved who in turn requested that the reward be donated to charity.[6] As a result, Google doubled the reward.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Kumparak, Greg (June 23, 2014). "Google Gets Into Domain Sales". TechCrunch.
- ^ a b c d Perez, Sarah (January 13, 2015). "Google Domains Launches To All In U.S. With Support For Blogger Integration, Templates And More Domain Endings". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- ^ a b Lisota, Kevin (January 15, 2015). "Google Domains: Useful for some small business owners, but useless in many cases". GeekWire. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- ^ Pinola, Melanie (January 13, 2015). "You Can Now Buy and Sell Domain Names on Google Domains". LifeHack. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- ^ Carson, Biz (30 September 2015). "This guy bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute". Business Insider. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ a b Carson, Biz (8 October 2015). "Google rewarded the guy who bought Google.com, and he donated it all to charity". Business Insider. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
