Google Building a Domain Registration Service

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @12:45AM from the opportunity-costs dept.

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.

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Partnered straight into buy outs... by jzarling · 2014-06-24 01:15 · Score: 4, Funny

WIX, and its other "partners" will soon be absorbed - their technical uniqueness will add to Google's own...

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Re:Getting popcorn by g0bshiTe · 2014-06-24 01:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Look at it from a security standpoint.

Isn't it nice they keep so many details in one company?

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Re:New term by decsnake · 2014-06-24 03:57 · Score: 4, Funny

abgoogled doesn't really roll off the tongue. May I suggest goobandoned instead?