Not many people knew, including myself for a while, but about a year ago Google became a domain registrar. They went through the whole accreditation process to become accredited so they could sell domains. Wait, Google, sell domains? Yeah, you might think crazy…but it’s true. Well, only partially true. Google is a registrar, but they haven’t sold a single domain in the time they have been accredited.
Instead of selling domains, they were feeding off of the information given to them because of the status of ‘Registrar’. ICANN provides valuable information to domain registrars and only to registrars. In a recent ICANN Domain Name Workshop, we learned just that little bit more about why Google went through the process. They went through the process to gain that valuable information and to be able to use it. As consumers, such as myself and you, we don’t have access to this information — and I say ‘this information’ because to this day I still don’t know what that entails. Google finds value in this information so they are staying accredited. (via)
September 19th, 2006 at 6:06 am
Well how about that, thanks for that handy bit of info. It makes sense for them to do it, but I’d never have thought they were a registrar.