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True, 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.
by DLA 3y ago
True, 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.