Open testing of Google Domains domain registration service begins

Service Google Domains has passed from the stage of the private beta stage in public beta. Now, any user from the USA can register in a service that offers domain registration with additional features: free private registration, domain redirection to Gmail, free domain redirection, support for up to 100 subdomains, and various options for first-level domains (including newfangled ones, such as .guru and .club - full list ). Registration costs start at $ 12 / year .

Google also agreed with web service providers whose services can be immediately accessible to those who used this registration: Shopify (online stores), Squarespace (CMS for blogs), Weebly (visual website editor), Wix (visual website editor). The service also supports its own platform Google Blogger. You can register a domain and immediately join it to your Blogger account. Users can choose from site templates that are supported in the CMS of the above partners.

Apparently, the policy of Google is to equate the concepts of Google and the Internet for the end user - mail, website, and all other services cover almost the entire presence of the user on the Internet, except for the segment of social networks that still cannot be grabbed. Domain registration from the Internet giant should shake the position of the largest player in this market, GoDaddy, which went public IPO shortly before the Google service was launched.

Meanwhile, due to the increase in ruble prices, the largest Russian registrar RU-Center raises the cost of its services , as he said in a press release , including the cost of renewing existing domains. Now the domain in the .ru zone costs 600 r / year, in the .com zone - 840 r / year.