Google Domains
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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 13, 2014 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| Area served | [1] Australia Brazil Canada France India Indonesia Japan Mexico Netherlands Spain Thailand United Kingdom United States Vietnam |
| Industry | Domain Registrar SSL certificates DNSSEC Web Hosting (Via various partner sites) |
| URL | domains |
Google Domains is a U.S. based ICANN accredited domain registrar service offered by Google both of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of parent company Alphabet Inc. (Formerly Google, Inc.).[2] The service was publicly launched under a Beta test mode on January 13, 2015[3]. In addition to Domain registration they also offer private domain registration, DNS hosting, DNSSEC, Dynamic DNS, Domain forwarding and Email forwarding to Gmail and any third party email service.[3] Both of Google's web publishing services Blogger and Google Sites can be configured to host a blog and/or a website on a Google Domain registration, additionally Google offers one click configuration for Squarespace, Wix.com, Weebly and Shopify.[4][5]
Travia
On September 29, 2015, a former Google employee Sanmay Ved managed to buy the Google.com domain from Google via Google Domains, and gain full webmaster control.[6] Google later acknowledged the purchase, and rewarded Ved with the sum of 6006.13 dollars. He in turn asked to donate the reward to charities. As a result, Google doubled the amount. The reason for the unusual amount was that it should represent the Google lettering.[7]
References
- ^ Is Google Domains available in my country?
- ^ Kumparak, Greg (June 23, 2014). "Google Gets Into Domain Sales". TechCrunch.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Finderlohn für Domain - Kurzzeitiger Kauf von Google.com bringt 12.000 Dollar". spiegel.de (in German). Spiegel Online. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
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