Google becomes ICANN Approved Domain Registrar
 

With Google now a registrar, what kind of impact will this have on the many domain registration companies? It could be interesting as most of them are *customers* of Google.

Google email, Google hosting, Google domains, Google Adwords, Froogle for product placement - sounds like a nice small business solution.

# 895

http://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar

wonder how much they will charge

google browser seems to coming as well despite they deny it.

im confident below $10/domain.


They'll either go for profit or just for expanding, either way they have a big client list they would trust them. I can seem them going for profit and not hiting the competition that hard for the moment.

"Last week, Internet overseeing organisation ICANN and technical arm IANA, quietly approved Google's application and gave it ID number 895. It is now entitled to sell any .biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, .org and .pro domains (but not .aero, .coop, or .museum). Interestingly though, a Google spokeswoman told us it has no plans to sell any at the moment.

The reason it paid a $2,500 application fee and $6,500 to cover six top-level domains is that it "wants to get a better understanding of the domain name system [and so] increase the quality of our search results".


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02...domain_seller/

One of these days the anti-monopoly lawsuits will switch from Microsoft to Google:glugglug

Already posted....ofcourse.

that's cool news!

yeah google is closing in on Microsoft lol - next we will see google getting patents on what have you and announcing their GoggleOS


I kinda liked google more when they were the underdog kickass search engine and nothing else

Google must be stopped before it's too late

riiiiiiight

if google.com offer to me $6 per domain name i will move my 1500 domains to google :) Now i pay $6.69 per domain name.

what do you have 1500 domains for ?

Enom ETP?

Will PR now depends on who your registrar is? TUN TUN TUN

:: this is how rumors get started, folks ::

but google will know these domains are yours and will consider them to 1 big linkfarm, even if you got different class c IP's

It seems the more energy they use to expand their business the wore their serps become.

true, they will try to control everything in order to improve their search results..

google is taking over.

Yeah sure. :upsidedow