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What does this mean for Google's registry business? It's new gTLDs, some of which still haven't even launched
by cobertos 3y ago
What does this mean for Google's registry business? It's new gTLDs, some of which still haven't even launched
- jonhohle 3y agoAt least when it started Google was a reseller for Go Daddy. Did that ever change?
- cobertos 3y agoI hadn't heard about that. It always seemed like an all-Google affair for the registry services. They filed a lot of gTLD applications under the name "Charleston Road Registry" https://icannwiki.org/Charleston_Road_Registry_Inc https://icannwiki.org/Charleston_Road_Registry_Inc.
- jonhohle 3y agoThat might be true of their registries. Early Google domains was a private label API customer of Go Daddy, though. Go Daddy had been sunsetting API resellers and then Google came in and that plan was scrapped. This was ≈2007-2008.
- judge2020 3y agoRegistering new gTLDs was never exclusive to domains.google.com (and I think such is disallowed by ICANN), so it sounds like registry is untouched.
- cobertos 3y agoTrue, but they had better pricing on all their own registry domains. I'm wondering if I have to pay more now xD, or if SquareSpace will continue the price discount.
- cobertos 3y ago(Also you are correct for most domains. If they don't have a Specfication 9 exemption in their registry contract (or Specification 13 in the newer registry agreements), they are general availability)
- sixdimensional 3y agoI am wondering this too. I waited years hoping the .ing gTLD would be released, and it never happened.