> The team working on domains must be small I wonder if this is true. Technology-wise, maybe, but I wonder if domains just requires a lot of negotiation and co

> The team working on domains must be small I wonder if this is true. Technology-wise, maybe, but I wonder if domains just requires a lot of negotiation and contact with registrars. I suspect it might be quite labour intensive in that way. Additionally, to sell to consumers you need to provide services like helping people port domains for renewal, helping with DNS setup, and other consumer-level customer support, and that's expensive. If you've ever heard a Hover advert on a podcast, it sounds like an expensive business to run. That sort of business doesn't fit with the cloud business. For cloud, sure customers will want a domain, but any business using cloud will have the ability to buy a domain, it's unlikely to be a deal breaker for using GCP, and the only up-side is $10-$100 a year on the account, that's less than a single VM for a month in many cases. Disclaimer: I work at Google but haven't looked into this at all, this is all personal speculation as an outsider and previous customer of GCP.