Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

None of Google Domain&#x27;s features are novel. In fact the article spent most of its time talking about an up-sell. Which isn&#x27;t to say Google Domain isn&#x27;t a good product, just that we now should look at price because nothing else seems interesting...<p>~ Google Domains charges $12&#x2F;year for .COM, .NET, .ORG.<p>~ NameCheap charges $10.69&#x2F;year for .COM, $11.98&#x2F;year for .NET, and $11.48&#x2F;year for .ORG. Sometimes with an 18c&#x2F;year fee tacked on.<p>~ GoDaddy charges $12.99-13.99 for a .COM but that might increase randomly because they&#x27;re scumbags.<p>So my point is that this article claims that everyone is &quot;rushing&quot; to this new product, and while this product doesn&#x27;t seem &quot;bad&quot; it also isn&#x27;t exactly market changing. The prices are well within 10% of the market (sometimes higher, sometimes lower) and the features are pretty generic also.<p>Can someone explain why Google Domains is compelling and not a &quot;me too!&quot; product?

Knowing first hand google support I will stick to namecheap ...

$12&#x2F;yr - not bad at all. I might recommend this next time a friend asks how to buy a domain.<p>Namecheap takes great care of me at $10&#x2F;year though, so I&#x27;m not very compelled to switch.

The last thing I trust Google with is my domains. They can outright ban or disable you just like with any of their products and not offer support or explanation.

So when somebody steals your domain, do you actually get to talk to a person at Google to help resolve the matter, or is it like every other customer service experience they offer?

I have no idea why this is US only other than Google just being extremely lazy. Previously I&#x27;ve always understood why companies couldn&#x27;t release products internationally or at least in their own continent when it came to rights for content, however I really don&#x27;t see any reason for this one.<p>If it&#x27;s an issue of not wanting to deal with certain country top-levels then so be it and simply offer the ones you&#x27;ve implemented already and add in more top levels in the future.

Don&#x27;t waste your time on this service. I registered for it years ago while it was still in beta, and it&#x27;s been nothing but a trainwreck.<p>The latest debacle: I can&#x27;t renew my domain. They started sending me notifications a few months ago that my domain was expiring because my credit card is out of date. I can&#x27;t sign in because of a redirect bug. There&#x27;s no support to reach out to, and requests for help on forums have gone unanswered.<p>Alternatively, dnsimple has been nothing but charming to work with.

I&#x27;ve been using Google Domains for several months now. I like the simplicity of their user interface and I trust Google to be good at DNS. My biggest complaint is that they don&#x27;t support very many TLD&#x27;s. I&#x27;d prefer to have all my domains in one place, but they don&#x27;t support .co yet.

I was a beta tester for Google Domains for a long time. Here are reasons I&#x27;m very satisfied:<p>- Unlike other domain sellers, Google Domains is NOT trying to sell me anything other than domains.<p>- Canceling is easy! I don&#x27;t have to wait in calls with 1&amp;1!<p>- Customer support was great. They get back to me after an hour if I email and if I call, responses are very fast.<p>- User interface is clean and clear.

Many people miss the point of this product:<p>Easily buy a domain, have it automatically hooked into the Google Apps suite of products, and easily hook it up with a select number of third party vendors like Wix or Shopify.<p>That&#x27;s what this is about. The ability to create something cool, run a business, without having to worry as much about the technical bullshit.<p>Great product, and for the ease of use it is well worth $12&#x2F;year. And yea, I know, $2 more a year than namecheap... but $2&#x2F;year is well worth the time it takes to setup a domain (even if it is only a 2 minute ordeal).

Google: please provide free and easy to setup SSL with every domain. :)

Can&#x27;t wait to ditch enom. This looks like a good suitor.<p>No Canadian support yet.<p>Soon, eh!

I don&#x27;t think google should be in this space. They don&#x27;t need your $12&#x2F;year.<p>The world needs to resist ceeding every last bit Internet governance to these people.<p>Centralization is death!

Does anyone know if the DNS servers you get with this are the same as the google cloud DNS[1] product?<p>If so, buying your domain here could be worth it for the DNS alone, as they are anycast, DNSSEC enabled, and fairly fast[2].<p>1: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;dns&#x2F;docs</a><p>2: <a href="http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/2014/12" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solvedns.com&#x2F;dns-comparison&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12</a>

I&#x27;ve been using this for a few months now and it&#x27;s been great. The cool thing is that they allow you to solve the problem of having domain emails pointing to your personal emails so for example blahblah@joeblau.com -&gt; josephblaus@gmail.com. The only challenge with this is that I use Cloudflare as my CDN and Google&#x27;s email redirects work if you use Google&#x27;s nameservers.

I wish I could somehow post this in really large fonts here that a domain name is a service where you actually need support, &quot;real support&quot;. When your account (which is linked to dozens of other services and the reason can be an algorithmic false alert in context of any of those services) is disabled you again need support.<p>And customer support is something Google doesn&#x27;t believe in.

I&#x27;d <i>never</i> in a lifetime want to depend for something as critical as domain registrations on a company that can&#x27;t be bothered to answer its customers. Google has an absolutely horrible record when it comes to end user support and if there is one thing you want from your registrar then it is that they actually answer their phones and email.

That&#x27;s very good news. BIG threat to GoDaddy :D

I&#x27;ll stick with internetbs [1], $8.49-8.99&#x2F;year for .com and free private registration.<p>1: <a href="https://internetbs.net/domain_names_usd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internetbs.net&#x2F;domain_names_usd.html</a>

The best feature is that it&#x27;s not GoDaddy, or NameCheap. Having registered hundreds of domains, dealt with all kinds of customer service and had to perform numerous operations for my domains the user experience matters and though Google hasn&#x27;t has the best track record with UX they certainly do invest in it more heavily than GoDaddy &amp; NameCheap.

I keep thinking of Peter Theil&#x27;s analysis of monopolies trying to say they&#x27;re just a competitor in a larger market. There doesn&#x27;t seem to be anything special here in this offering from google. As a google developer I wonder if the difference will be in more integration and better API access compared to someone like godaddy.

I think integration with other Google products is the main reason they are venturing here. It can offer one click integration to google apps, app engine, cloud compute and blogger. If they offer free google apps for personal use, I think it can be a major selling point.

Does anyone know if they support dynamic DNS on subdomains and is it RFC2136 compliant? For example, I have mydomain.com pointing to a standard server, but home.mydomain.com updated from pfSense to point to my dyn IP on namecheap.<p>As usual with Google, technical details are scant.

Takes you to manage domains page without login, if you click on &quot;Manage my domains&quot; - <a href="http://ajean.net/google-domains-launches-u-s-u-s/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajean.net&#x2F;google-domains-launches-u-s-u-s&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m surprised that so far nobody has mentioned DNSimple in this conversation. They seem the closest to what Google Domains functionality is - domain registration and then easy integration with external services.<p>Also, fwiw they&#x27;re fantastic.

Not seeing any mention of SSL certificates. Might they get into the CA game as well?

&gt;We include 10 million resolutions per year for each domain you register with Google Domains.<p>Hmm, what does that mean for an average website?<p>100 readers * 365 days * ~273 (html+css+js+gif&#x2F;png&#x2F;jpg) ?<p>I guess some browsers cache the DNS requests too..

Dethroning Godaddy is a noble act of course, but other than that I don&#x27;t see any show stoppers from Google in managing domains space.<p>Adding support for more .bullshit TLD&#x27;s that no one cares about?<p>Connecting to Blogger?<p>Yawn...

Funny, I had just switched over my last GoDaddy domain yesterday to start using a different nameserver and finally move it off their system entirely. Might have to give this a try.

I&#x27;m just glad Godaddy has some real competition! Get ready for Godaddy to bring back discounts for annual renewals. hell, you might get a call from Danika personally?

The only factor on what registrar you use for buying a domain should be their renewal rank on <a href="http://domcomp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;domcomp.com</a>.

Still no .io support :(

Ive had beta access for a while now and havent had any problems yet. The main reason why I switched my domain to google was how seamless it works with gmail.

Does anyone know anything about migrating a domain to Google Domains if that domain was originally published through Blogger, then migrated to Google Apps?

Adding Route 53-like feature would be a killer addon that only large company like Google can (if they want to) properly handle.

It looks like CrunchBase may have gotten hacked. Their URL for Google points to a spam domain.

I&#x27;ve been using name.com for a while. Been ok so far (and way better than godaddy).

If the email integration is seamless then it&#x27;s worth looking into for me.

Don&#x27;t use it Google is known for not having great customer support. They like to build big and make you support it. Just like the Google Play store. Notice there is no phone number on the site? Not good if you are doing real business and need to get something fixed ASAP.

Would be nice if they had an API like Namecheap, or supporte the new TLDs.

I prefer Gandi.net No bullshit.

Can I pay with bitcoin? or paypal?

This is a welcome news. I&#x27;ve had it with name.com and it&#x27;s horrible webmail. Unable to send email for weeks, support replying with unhelpful answers every 48 hours. Have to pay for whois privacy and bunch of other stuff most registrars give you for free.

haha of course it&#x27;s &quot;in beta testing&quot; grow some balls Google

They&#x27;re clearly heading for worldDOMAINation.

I don&#x27;t think I would ever rely on Google to host an application critical to my business.

It is now complete. With Google Fiber, Big Brother Google will looking over you every step of the way.

The coolest domain name search tool is probably <a href="https://domainr.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;domainr.com&#x2F;</a>

....in before &quot;Google has decided to end support for this product; your 10-year-registered domains that last longer than next month will be moved to GoDaddy.&quot;<p>(edit: actually, they&#x27;d never voluntarily transfer your domain; they&#x27;d force you to transfer it, at some kind of discount. suffice to say i am less than confident)