Google Jumping into the Domain Registrar Game...

Google is becoming the internet.

They want to be rooted so deeply it in, it will be a struggle for anyone to compete.

This is one of the reasons I'm interested to see how mobile apps start to take off in the next decade. Maybe "Debundling" the Internet/Google in a way, and getting a piece of some of that distribution that Google currently enjoys. If people have a "publicly trusted and popular" app for each industry/service/need, will the average consumer/"searcher-ready-to-buy" even need to search for anything on Google or use a lot of Google services?

Lots of new apps are coming out that are directing people to different kinds of businesses within the app, taking advantage of local targeting, offering spur-of-the-moment deals and "check-in bonuses" etc. I just don't know if those kinds of individual apps growing in popularity together and expanding nationwide could make a dent in "Google search" when it comes to average people just looking for products/services/info.

What else could potentially attract a significant amount of eyeballs away from Google search and services in the near future?

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I'm pretty sure they were a registrar years ago.

If those assholes really want to be in that space, they'll float rumors regarding rankings or privacy... all an illusion.

They can also roll that into some other stupid products to give it more legitimacy.

This.

Google has been a registrar as in "they know what domains are yours" for years.

Nothing new here.

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That is true.

Sorry, brain not awake yet, must immerse in more coffee.

They can see any non-private domain for years now.
I'd wonder if they give preferred treatment to all white hat "brand" sites built on their services?

But right now, I am so mad at them, I wouldn't piss on a Google employee on fire.

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No, I'm pretty sure they are doing it to make money. thats it.

Unknowledable users and small biz owners users buying domains. Tie in domain registration into Google Places, Webmaster Tools, and Analytics. Upsell them 10 years registration on signup, keep rebilling them every year bc they dont know where in their Google account to go cancel it, etc. Its about $. Not to learn more about you.

I call bullshit. Google knowing WHO is behind the domains is far more profitable to them than the reg fees they'll be collecting.

That's why they're doing it. Do you really think Google is viewing domain registration as a revenue source? As long as it pays for itself, I'm sure they will be thrilled.
 
Not sure if this Keith Timimi is any more qualified than the rest of us to make this judgement based on his credentials/cynicism/knowledge of Google but:

Mr Timimi said there have "always been rumours within the industry that Google was a domain name registrar". However, he said that Google had mostly used that service internally "to fight web spam and to help provide cleaner search results".

BBC News - Google 'testing' domain name service
 
I call bullshit. Google knowing WHO is behind the domains is far more profitable to them than the reg fees they'll be collecting.

That's why they're doing it. Do you really think Google is viewing domain registration as a revenue source? As long as it pays for itself, I'm sure they will be thrilled.

I think you and every other idiot on this forum who truly believes that Google wants to spy on on your web empire is completely delusional. First of all, they already have all of the data they need, so even if they are then it's too late. Game over.

Second, do they look into certain people? Certain sites? I'm sure they do, but I guarantee that less than 1% of the people on this forum qualify. So assuming that they give a rats ass about your SEO sandcastle is laughable. They really don't care, and they don't have to. All of the propaganda they push already takes care of that.
 
I think you and every other idiot on this forum who truly believes that Google wants to spy on on your web empire is completely delusional. First of all, they already have all of the data they need, so even if they are then it's too late. Game over.

Second, do they look into certain people? Certain sites? I'm sure they do, but I guarantee that less than 1% of the people on this forum qualify. So assuming that they give a rats ass about your SEO sandcastle is laughable. They really don't care, and they don't have to. All of the propaganda they push already takes care of that.

I don't want to speak for him but I think we can all agree that Google is doing it for the data. I don't believe anyone is saying "man, Google is going to pick ME out", instead Google is getting more data to help identify patterns - which is what they do (not just talking SEO here). Plus who knows what other offers they will stack up with this. Example, Blogspot users get a free domain or whatever, there's a lot of possibilities.
 
I don't want to speak for him but I think we can all agree that Google is doing it for the data. I don't believe anyone is saying "man, Google is going to pick ME out", instead Google is getting more data to help identify patterns - which is what they do (not just talking SEO here). Plus who knows what other offers they will stack up with this. Example, Blogspot users get a free domain or whatever, there's a lot of possibilities.

I totally agree. I think all of that data will be useful, but for the most part I think it's an obvious move they should have made a long time ago, purely for business. It's money they've been leaving off the table.

In regards to my post, it just seems like every time something like this happens everyone loses their shit and starts throwing conspiracies out there. I think a lot of webmasters overestimate how much Google actually cares about them, especially Cutts.
 
To the hebrew in the tags: Yesh lee zayin gadol veh shammen. Ayzeh yoffee, nuh?

To everyone else.. This is all speculation.

Truth is, most of Google's divisions are separate. They don't usually interact with one another. Matt Cutts is the official comms man of the Web Spam Team at the all mighty Google Inc. -- He doesn't sit there and decide with a stroke of the mighty Google Inc. pen or sword, or red light saber, where he will be allowed access to and for what purpose. He has a boss who has a boss etc. His job is to cover and convey cock tease hints to the White Hat SEO community, while always giving subtle gentle world play to the Black Hat SEO community, about what Google Inc. is doing in the universe of search engine results and algorithms and other shit that most people would never understand anyway... and then doing THE EXACT OPPOSITE WITHOUT GIVING ANY FUCKS WHAT ANYONE THINKS NOR THE DAMAGE OR DELIGHT IT MAY CAUSE... End of story.

In fact, here's a look at how this project most likely went from not existing to approved, from the inside of Google Inc. itself:

Once upon a time, in a cold dark corner of corporate America far far away.. or in Mountain View's secret lair deep in the bowels of the all mighty see no evil do no evil, conquer the fucking world of technology by letting everyone get "free" email, stats, mobile operating systems, and videos galore... Lived a boring nameless executive without much knowledge or experience in anything really, sees Godaddy making gobs of cash and figures, "Hey, we should be doing that since we already are a registrar for many moons now, and since our business of raping advertisers has dried up via our domain feeds ceased, I bet we can overtake those elephant hunting motherfuckers... and then I will look like a genius and rain maker too!! Bwahahahahhaha" --- beep boop beep -- after some graphs and flash presentations of unicorns and explosions with money raining down are shown to bosses all wearing Google Glass, and seeing this in 3-D they all agree... THIS IDEA IS BRILLIANT BROS!!! ---- APPROVED!! --- Executive runs home, asks for permission from his Asian wife if he can have the sex with her. After a few hours of much feet caressing she agrees! Woohoo! Best. Job. Errr.. Sorry. Honey. Best. Wife. Evarrrrr!! (Note: Gaining permission of entry to wife's secret chamber of love has taken more time and effort than getting Google Domains initiative approved).

The executive gets his new division and flips the Google Inc. coin of "WIN!" on one side and "Should have stayed in the search game where you belong, instead of wasting billions of cash on other shit to keep you HIP and chatter friendly you fuckin asshole!!" on the other side and thus begins a new journey into a decade of lulz and monies for him, and probably not much else for anyone else.

The End.

PS- WickedFire will probably suffer from a major downgrade of Trust Rank domain authority (something I and a man by the name of Aaron Wall [we did so totally separately from the other just from being curious about why things that went against PageRank rules always seemed to happen], were the first two people to discover and publicly discuss some years back, that many others chalked us up as crazy for even mentioning it since Google Inc. never publicly disclosed existed in the first place, only until it started to catch on and make total sense... THEN they finally said.. yeah.. it's real... -- Thank you very much...) for no reason.. oh wait... for THIS POST!! -- No more flowers for you Mr. Cutts!
 
Now, if they buy GoDaddy (those broke bastards) then your godaddy private whois is about to go very, very public (to google). To those that don't transfer their domains after they buy them at godaddy auctions...
 
I think you and every other idiot on this forum who truly believes that Google wants to spy on on your web empire is completely delusional. First of all, they already have all of the data they need, so even if they are then it's too late. Game over.

Second, do they look into certain people? Certain sites? I'm sure they do, but I guarantee that less than 1% of the people on this forum qualify. So assuming that they give a rats ass about your SEO sandcastle is laughable. They really don't care, and they don't have to. All of the propaganda they push already takes care of that.

Google doesn't give a fuck about the domain reg fees. Do you know how minescule of a revenue stream that is for them?

Do you really think there was a meeting in the corp boardroom, "hey boss, I've been doing the financial projections, and if we launch a domain reg division, after expenses we can profit like $2.50/domain/year. If we get 5 million domains, that's like $12.5mm/year! Fuck yeah, we gotta get in on this shit boss!"

Hardly.
 
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Total internet domination is more likely to be Google's goal rather than getting some information (that they can already get anyway) on your shitty little affiliate sites.
 
Google doesn't give a fuck about the domain reg fees. Do you know how minescule of a revenue stream that is for them?

Do you really think there was a meeting in the corp boardroom, "hey boss, I've been doing the financial projections, and if we launch a domain reg division, after expenses we can profit like $2.50/domain/year. If we get 5 million domains, that's like $12.5mm/year! Fuck yeah, we gotta get in on this shit boss!"

Hardly.
First of all, top domain registrars register more than 5 million domains a year, that should be obvious to you if you thought about it for more than 0 seconds.

Secondly, it would be a massive channel for them to market their other webmaster products through. If they wanted to launch hosting they would have an ideal platform to do it. They can advertise AdWords, etc. They want to be involved in every step of a small or large business' internet journey.

Actually no, now that I think about it they're obviously investing hugely in opening domain registration so that they can destroy their enemies at WickedFire. :love-smiley-083:
 
First of all, top domain registrars register more than 5 million domains a year, that should be obvious to you if you thought about it for more than 0 seconds.

Really? I didn't know folks like GoDaddy published their numbers, but it they're doing 5+ millions regs/year, that's quite impressive. That works out to 13,698 regs/day, or 571/hour, or 9,5/minute. That's impressive.


Actually no, now that I think about it they're obviously investing hugely in opening domain registration so that they can destroy their enemies at WickedFire.

Their mission statement is to gather ALL of the world's information in one central place, and they truly mean ALL of the world's information. Think of that in a NSA-type evil way, versus a hippy "wheee, free flowing information" type of way.
 
No, thanks I'll stick with my registrar. No love for godaddy or google domains here
 
No one here has thought about it in a competitive point of view.... If Google has already mentioned that they may use Whois information as a factor in their organic algorithms, and they are offering domains with free private whois (so all domains registered with Google feature homogeneous whois information), maybe it is a pre-emptive act against competitors in the future who may seek to use said data in their own projects.

//conspiracytheories
 
Really? I didn't know folks like GoDaddy published their numbers, but it they're doing 5+ millions regs/year, that's quite impressive. That works out to 13,698 regs/day, or 571/hour, or 9,5/minute. That's impressive.
Not exactly. Renewals also count. So maybe 1 reg/minute + 8,5 renewals/minute, and we have a bit less work but the same numbers.
 
Really? I didn't know folks like GoDaddy published their numbers, but it they're doing 5+ millions regs/year, that's quite impressive. That works out to 13,698 regs/day, or 571/hour, or 9,5/minute. That's impressive.

Well I'd say that a lot more than 5 million domains get registered per day (could be wrong but seems like easily more than that to me) so is it a big shout to say the biggest registrar registers/renews more than 5 million/year?
 
the registrar gives big chunk to Verisign for .com,.net domains, count in the wholesale pricing of $7.85 for a .com by verisign.