February 01, 2005

Google is also a registrar

Bret (LexText) saw it first: Google is now an ICANN-accredited registrar. What for?
According to Netcraft News, this new status "is likely to prompt speculation about its ambitions in web hosting and blogging. Google operates Blogger, the free blog hosting service with a huge user base. Cheap or free domain names could prove useful to Google in the notoriously price-sensitive blog hosting sector, where most bloggers use subdomains (i.e. myblog.bloghost.com) rather than full domain names (www.myblog.com)."

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