Last night, well rather this morning at 1:45am when I should have been sleeping but I was up late…playing games working on homework business, I thought about some short domain names because I was trying to resolve a new domain of mine.
So I typed in dan.net and the normal blah blah blah, then thought about the domain john..tried john.com blah, john.org..blah..but john.net was something special.
I did this in Firefox 2.0, but when I tried it in IE7, it came up with different results.
So as I’m sitting there looking at it and wondering what on earth this was. Was is a domain-landing page? Was it a service provided by Google to do something different? I honestly don’t know what it’s for.
But I clicked in to sign-in and got this screen.
I’m still confused as to what the functionality of Google does for John.net. Anyone else have an idea?
February 12th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
It’s the Google Apps for Your Domain thing. You can set up a customized start page for your users.
February 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Shorty: And it lets you completely host the domain on their servers?
February 12th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
If you wanted to. I used to have it set up that start.shorty114.net does the start page, but you could use Google’s start page for your homepage if you wanted to. It also does calendar, mail and chat (via Google Talk).
February 12th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Shorty: Hmmmm interesting. I wonder if there’s anyway to generate revenue from it…maybe I’ll look into it more. Thanks for the tip.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Hi Jonathon, I don’t think there is any way of generating revenue, it’s a free service (while in beta) which lets you use gmail, google calendar, gtalk and googlepages for users of your site. I think it’s the difference between using the standard mail services on your hosting or the massive and powerful gmail, using your domain name, that is the real pull here.
As it’s free, I’m sure Google are keeping the ad revenue from gmail and calendar!
Here’s the link: http://www.google.com/a/
February 13th, 2007 at 1:07 am
Phil: Yeah, I was aware of that page already, but I hadn’t seen it actually being used before. Thanks for the updates both you and shorty.