Google Domains
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Google Domains is a web-hosting service offered by Google[1] which publicly launched in the United States on January 13, 2015.[2] It is currently still in the Beta stage.[2]
The service provides domain hosting, with free private domain registration, free email forwarding to any Gmail address, and free domain forwarding.[2] Google does not offer a website builder themselves, but offers website building with Squarespace, Wix.com, Weebly or Shopify.[3][4] Google also lets you connect your domain name and Blogger service.[3] Google offers over 60 domain names, like .company, .florist, and .coffee.[2]
On September 29, 2015, an Ex-Googler Sanmay Ved managed to buy the domain Google.com from Google via Google Domains, and gain full webmaster control.[5] Google later acknowledged the purchase,[6] and rewarded Ved who in turn requested that the reward be donated to charity. As a result, Google doubled the reward.
References
- ↑ Kumparak, Greg (June 23, 2014). "Google Gets Into Domain Sales". TechCrunch.
- 1 2 3 4 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.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/this-guy-bought-googlecom-from-google-for-one-minute-2015-9
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/google-rewarded-the-guy-who-bought-googlecom-2015-10
