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Google simply has no incentive to serve the customer who uses them for domain management. They make so much money from ads that they're far more concerned about
by wyclif 3y ago
Google simply has no incentive to serve the customer who uses them for domain management. They make so much money from ads that they're far more concerned about their ad revenue than they are about money from paying customers.
- 55555 3y agoDomain parking is valuable ad space. Surprised they are selling.
- UnlockedSecrets 3y agoWould domain parking even be 1 millionth of what advertising google serves???
- cobertos 3y agoMaybe not in its current form (disregarding the hyperbole). I'm more surprised that given Google's scale, they couldn't do it in a way that makes them much more money, but perhaps at the expense of ethics/user experience
- DLA 3y agoTrue, but then why even go into the business? Could they not model out that this would never be a giant revenue stream and customers all the grief.
- brycelarkin 3y agoDomain registration by itself isn’t a revenue stream if you’re charging base rates (which Google was doing). I think domain registration is to keep you in their cloud ecosystem.
- kfarr 3y agoSame assumption here that it was a loss leader for cloud business, i guess it didn't pencil out
- brycelarkin 3y agoI’m guessing they looked at the data and saw that it was mostly consumers and not gcp customers using their domain service.
- lukeschlather 3y agoAs a GCP customer this actually is really concerning, it makes me wonder if some day they are just going to up and sell BigQuery to Salesforce or something.
- kenhwang 3y agoI think Google knows that BigQuery is their only successful cloud product. Everything that isn't BQ is more at risk of being left to stagnate until it's discontinued.
- adrr 3y agoAmazon makes so much money of e-commerce yet manage to support their cloud computing business which includes domain management. Their CEO is just incompetent and can’t run a business that has multiple major revenue streams.