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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?
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Too much friction remains
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I'm waiting to see how the Google haters will spin a domain registry as evil.
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.
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.
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.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
NO NOT AGAIN!!!
"I'm waiting to see how the Google haters will spin a domain registry as evil."
Cool, a preemptive ad hominem attack. You are dismissing people who don't agree with your opinion, before their opinions have been stated. It's hate speech regardless of content.
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.
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.
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.
Google hyper-vacillates between creating new garbage that nobody wants, and retiring old garbage that people need.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2...
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.
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.