Google becomes domains registrar
Search giant Google has become an ICANN-accredited registrar of domain names.
The firm, which floated on the stock market last year, is expanding into a number of different online markets.
Google is now able to sell names in seven top-level domains (TLDs) including .com, .net, .org, .biz., info, .name and .pro.
Google has yet to make any announcements about becoming domain registrar number 895. The firm currently offers a special AdSense service for domain sellers to make money from unused web addresses.
Google also operates Blogger, a free blog hosting service, and could use its registrar status to provide cheap or free domain names to bloggers.
Domain registrations in the business hosting market have surged in the past 18 months and hosting providers like Hostway and Yahoo! have used cheap domains to attract hosting customers.
However, the greatest domain cost efficiencies are available to hosting companies that are also ICANN-accredited registrars, such as 1&1 Internet of Germany, which offers .com domains at $5.99.
2 February 2005
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