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Google Eyes Domain Registration Market

Posted by timothy on from the they-know-what-domains-you've-searched-for dept.

1sockchuck writes "Google is now an ICANN-approved domain name registrar, an intriguing move that could be tied to its blog hosting service, Blogger. Yahoo recently dropped its domain prices to $4.98, as hosting companies use domains as a cheap way to lure customers. Registrar status could allow Google to compete aggressively on price. Bloggers seem to resist paying for hosting, so cheap domains might help Google's plans for world domination."

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  1. So by nizo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will domains registered through them rank higher in search results?

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  2. No, but Google won't stop you by Nomihn0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google has a very kind policy when it comes to third-party GMail hacks: They don't care. That is, they don't care at all. Google is permitted to change its structure and/or features at any time without telling a soul, rendering your application/extension obsolete. Google hasn't got the time to go after people using GMail as a personal server, nor do the staff have time to allow them and accept responsibility for their functioning. It's a fair system, in my mind.

  3. how about certificates? by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I.e., affordable certificates, give verisign more competition - call 'em gcerts or something.

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  4. Re:World domination by NoTheory · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What google is doing is not Monopolizing. They're doing vertical integration. They're not the dominating force in any of their fields excluding search technology, and their position their is a precarious one.

    They are not, nor likely will they be a monopoly.

    On that note, size does not indicate malevolence. Companies that continue to have drives to do things (as opposed to exclusively being interested in sucking money out of their customers) are not the sort of threat that people keep making them out to be.

    It's not the size that matters, it's the corporate culture.

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  5. Re:The question is... by digismack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seems as though they could easily implement @yourdomain.com email addresses using the Gmail interface.

    That would be slick.

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  6. Re:Much better alternative to Verisign by viva_fourier · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, but you have to ask how this fits into their quest to organize the world's information? I naively assume they don't intend to fubar 'your Internet', but this looks a lot like the whole gmail "we store your email forever" sort of deal.

    It seems this registration-scheme would enable them to organize new blogs/sites using their existing network-search framework. And, I can see blogs really taking off in the immediate future. If any of you have used Picasa + Hello + Blogger, you'll know what I mean. Scary Easy.

    Now, you get all sorts of random people posting their thoughts/musings/interests all over -- all being syphoned through Google's keyword-storing architecture. Sergey and Larry are no dummies: they've done their research in data mining. Why stop at data mining the existing information source, when you can create a new one?

    Time to go buy some tinfoil futures...

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