Google Gets Into Domain Registration

[stardoc]

Google's service will charge a $10 annual fee and only handle addresses ending in four suffixes _ ".com," ".net," ".biz" and ".info."

full story: [chron.com...]

(i hope posting this link is fine)

This seems to be an interesting development. Does anyone know of a google link where we can see it in action?

[Marcia]

Can anyone think of a reason to pay Google $10 when you can get the same service from an established provider for less?

Curiosity.

[Marcia]

The link in the first post isn't working any more (they must have not liked being inundated with our WebmasterWorld traffic), but here is a link to the official Google announcement on their blog about "One Stop Shopping"

[googleblog.blogspot.com...]

Yes, of course it's connected up with Googlepages and they'll do all the back_end setup work for domains too, which was not easy or even possible with most registrars and hosts before, since shared hosting doesn't come with capability for configuring C-names except in a few odd, unusual cases.

[kevinpate]

> think of a reason to pay Google $10 when you can
> get the same service from an established provider
> for less?

Is there someone else doing a domain name & private registration for that rate? I thought private registration was an add-on everywhere else, but I concede I haven't been watching real close.

[Marcia]

It costs about double for private registration elsewhere, unless there's a special deal running.

[potentialgeek]

Google will probably buy up eNom. It'll continue to play the internet giant theme.

p/g

[alphasource]

i didn't get a clear understanding of this: so is it reasonable to expect that a domain with the search term in it will be displayed higher on the natural search results?

for example, if i search for "foobar", should www.foobar.com/net/org show up high on the algorithmic results?

thanks - sorry if this is already discussed, just couldn't find anything.