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Google Building a Domain Registration Service
Graculus (3653645) writes with this excerpt from The Next Web: Google [on Monday] revealed that it is building a domain registration service called Google Domains. The product is still an early work in progress, so it's in invite-only beta for now. Google's small business-facing division decided to build the product because, according to its research, 55 percent of small businesses still don't have a website. Since the domain acts as a website's foundation, Google decided to do more to help companies get started with their online presence. While Google Domains won't include hosting, website building providers Squarespace, Wix, Weebly and Shopify have signed on as partners.
Google domains?
Like sideburns on trains.
Instead of smooth
Too much friction remains
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Should be interesting to see how they accuse them of coupling search rank with using their registry.
What the hell for?
While Google Domains won't include hosting, website building providers Squarespace, Wix, Weebly and Shopify have signed on as partners.
I can already guess the next step: Google offering hosting and online website building.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Their intention is to turn the internet to an intranet.
All you could ever want under the Google umbrella!
WIX, and its other "partners" will soon be absorbed - their technical uniqueness will add to Google's own...
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Registrar, mostly, although Google has applied for several TLDs, for which they would then be registrar and registry.
What is there to spin? Google owning everything is as bad as anybody else owning everything. If this were Microsoft, all hell would break lose. Google does all of this (probably an incomplete list): domain registration and hosting, web and phone apps (mail, office, navigation, translation), search (web, Usenet, books, shopping, travel), book library, news aggregation, web browser, phone and nettop OS, media player hard- and software, video hosting, network backbones, internet access provider, phone service, payment system, games, home automation, self-driving cars, social network, and ad broker.
That company couldn't remain "not evil" if it tried.
Okay I'll bite. Google have set themselves up as the front door of the internet. They manage a huge chunk of email, and they index the web to provide access to the web on a search basis. Google is therefore in the business of ad sales because businesses want to be visible on the web and if the majority of people are using Google to find things and send email about things, then Google is in the perfect position to earn money while providing a valuable service.
Nothing says evil like monopoly. Google offering domain registry will lead to Google offering hosting. Now then you have the official position of Google on Net Neutrality in theory but you have an all encompassing reality where it is very easy for Google to fudge the rankings in favour of those companies who pay them money for hosting and domain registry. Those domains will get priority indexing. That's the opposite of net neutrality. There is no way to prove that Google won't give priority indexing to domains it registers.
This is what we call a conflict of interest, and that is evil unless Google is willing to become completely transparent and verifiable, which will never happen because they are a traded company.
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NO NOT AGAIN!!!
I'm waiting to see how the Google haters will spin a domain registry as evil.
GoDaddy is evil. Will Google turn out to be as evil as they are? I hope not.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Google where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Google where the Shadows lie.
Cats and dogs living together!
It's in the Bible, people, look it up!
Look at it from a security standpoint.
Isn't it nice they keep so many details in one company?
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I hope they'll take businesses away from GoDaddy.
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Lookin forward for registering hate.google.
This would allow for names like : I.hate.google, you.hate.google or do.you.also.hate.google
I've got a new term I'd like to coin, to explain why I wouldn't use this service.
It's called "Abgoogled"
A combination of the words Abandoned and Google.
Google has a tendency to offer services for a while, get distracted and then wander off, leaving its customers in a lurch. This has happened with dozens of google products.
As such, I'll not be using Googles domain registry service because I fear that in a few years I'll get Abgoogled, and have to find a new registrar on short notice.
Abgoogled - Abandon by Google when they stop providing a service you've grown dependent on.
With GoDaddy's recent financial troubles, it's not clear how much longer they'll be able to support her contract.
..to the usual experience with many registrars where just trying to make a simple change gets you umteen blinky, opted-in signups for perpetual web services.
more of a disillusioned former Google supporter. many feel burned and bitter by their big brother crap.
it's not spin, just preparing for the worst, because that is the trend they've been showing us.
absolute control/power corrupts absolutely.
Google grabbing more power?
not surprised. surprised would be if they "did no evil".
Well, so finally Google will be doing something useful.
as somebody who spends tens of thousands of dolalrs per year with godaddy, please allow me to be the first (?) to say that anything that brings more competition to godaddy can only be a good thing.
Google will invariably be better and more privacy and security conscious than 90% of existing registrars, even when you consider their core business model.
I personally would howl about Microsoft because their record with customer data is abyssmal-- for all of their talk about scroogling, they still cooperate with China with Skype and Bing.
Seriously no one company should be allowed to control the internet in so many ways. Mybe its time for the publicly funded system like say a seach engine where its not controlled by any commercial or government entity (sorry I dont know how yet, just an idea)
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Good, I hope this drives GoDaddy out of business and ruins their impending IPO
I'm getting popcorn for this one.
Won't be long till the web fractures just as bad as the internet in general.
Many small businesses are happy with a Facebook page.
That gives them something to find in Google, to advertise online, to like and share, to post a nice picture and occasional updates, and to enter something in every context that requires an URL. And many additional services can also be set up at third party websites.
Of course there is a drawback of depending on Facebook. But there are benefits in simplicity, reliability and social integration, and they often win for small business.
Similarly, many hobby projects can and do host all their content on free blogging/social/media services. They often provide additional bonuses in addition to free hosting, like software and exposure. And things you give up are not immediately perceived as critical.
The desire to own a domain name or a traditional website is not as popular as it used to be.
I'm still not quite sure I see the benefit other than the unwashed masses who use Go Daddy because of the TV ads will have a name they recognized just as much. And it says it won't include "hosting", does that just mean it won't do web site hosting, or does that mean DNS too? TFA mentions something about "100 e-mail addresses", so I guess it's going to at least include DNS.
In the meantime, I'm sticking with my Swiss registrar (joker.com) because if anyone can stop people from messing with your domain registration, it's got to be the Swiss.
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I really hope no one ever considers buying Wix. Their sites are slow, entirely js-based, and generally ugly. But, I repeat myself.
Google is unlikely to make more than one foray into that business sector. However, you forget that while they have made a number of acquisitions over the years, they don't have the best track record for continuing to operate either those services or their own.
Oracle seems more the type to get into a market and gobble competitors. Microsoft is the type to "partner" with a company and gut them financially. Google is more interested in tech acquisition, and to that degree they probably prefer it if the company isn't making money -- it's cheaper that way. The purchase of Motorola Mobility is an argument one way or the other, but I'm not sure which.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
And yet, Google doesn't even offer a telephone number to call in the event of account-related problems, such as account lockouts, hackers, etc. Google's account "recovery" mechanism amounts to asking you to provide a bunch of details you either don't know or don't remember. If you fail to do that, Google's response is "try again, harder."
Is it worth trusting a company that has that type of customer support strategy? Want to pay Google $10 per month for 1 terabyte of Google Drive storage, and hope you'll never, ever need Google to intervene on your behalf, in response to a problem with your irreplaceable data? Want to take the same gamble with your domain names?
I will NEVER use Google to "manage" my most important assets.
Google hyper-vacillates between creating new garbage that nobody wants, and retiring old garbage that people need.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2...
Facebook is a far bigger offender at this than Google is. Random example: Google doesn't compel you to register for a G+ account to access content flagged as public. Facebook does. Compound this annoyance with the fact that Facebook is synonymous with the internet for the unwashed masses and you have a walled garden that's nearly as obnoxious as AOL was back in the day.
I yelled at the organizers of our local half-marathon for only making updates available via their Facebook page. Special bonus points in their case for already having a webpage, plus the e-mail address of every registered runner, but using neither means of communication to share important updates. Here's a hint to anybody looking to establish a presence on the Internet: We don't all use Facebook.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
If you cant answer the recovery questions, there are two options: Allow a bypass, opening you up to social engineering attacks, or deny access.
I believe you are mistaken about the need to have a FB acct to view content flagged as public. I'm a photographer and use FB to post photos. I send the link out to a list of non-FB users and they can all see the photos without an FB account.
Buildings and lots all have addresses, assigned by the US Post Office if necessary. Highways and streets all have numbers or names or both.
We all ought to have our own addresses on the Internet. No one thinks anything of having an IP address, and everyone who knows anything about the Internet realizes an address is necessary. Why aren't names accorded the same importance and privilege? We need stable addresses, and with dynamic IP, we don't have that. I don't like such vital connectivity being in the hands of a private company no matter how good they are.
Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
This solidifies a fundamental shift in the way we use web sites:
While Google Domains won’t include hosting, website building providers Squarespace, Wix, Weebly and Shopify have signed on as partners.
So we have a domain registrar now, who only lets you use certain predefined hosting services. This is part of a trend:
Computers used to be general purpose machines that could be used to create and run any software. Now, they are increasingly used to run only software sanctioned by the device manufacturer. Similarly, network software used to use standard W3C file transfer protocols, but instead they now integrate with proprietary file transfer web sites. So instead of FTP that works anywhere, software uses DropBox, OneDrive, and Google Drive. Rather than make a web site or customize a MySpace page, you use the predefined Facebook or Google + format.
Google is just taking this idea to the next level.
Google is the new Apple, and Apple is the new M$.
MS is now the way of IBM, and I'm not old enough to know who was the big evil before that.
I'd love if they provided a service for individuals for personal use. Simple things like online gaming servers where you have a Dynamic IP address. It's annoying to try hosting a Terraria server or System Shock 2 when your have to share your IP address at the beginning of every session. DYNDNS.org used to offer free addresses for personal use.
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