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This is great. Google is a company that is very serious about security, and has essentially no customer support so no way to social engineer your way around that security. Perfect for domains.
Google does indeed have customer support, for paid products. Very good support in my opinion, I've called them for Google Apps support and Adwords, they were very helpful and hold times were super short.
Dreadful support for paid Google Apps although we were a small startup.
http://domains.google.com/about/features.html Integration with Google cloud resources (a la AWS Route 53), 10 million lookups/year free, pricing appears off the bat to be $12/year, free private registration. And support! "With Google Domains, you get phone and email support (M-F, 9am to 9pm EST)."
No cost for private registration, that would save me some bucks.
Example at Namecheap :
New Registration : Domain Price + Whois guard is FREE for 1 year ( With a coupon code your domain cost is reduce by $1-$2 )[1]
Transfer : Its treated as a new registration too, so the same applies. And usually transfer has some coupon or discount attached.[1]
Renewal : Domain costs + Whois guard is $2.88 [2] ( With coupon code your domain cost is reduced by $1-$2. So effectively its comes to be at the same price.
Now talking about Google, the only awesome thing I can see it provides with $12 is we get to use their Apps for Business which includes their robust email service [3] of course. This recently became paid-only service.[4] Now its not unlimited accounts but 100 alias is enough if you have multiple domains and just need one account to handle everything.
1. https://www.namecheap.com/promos/coupons.aspx
2. https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx
3. http://domains.google.com/about/features.html
4. http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
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Are you doing anything interesting with DNSSEC?
Take a look at the RFCs coming out recently. DANE, in particular. DNSSEC is an important trust root that can be used to pin certificates in addition to PKIX (CAs), or, in some practical cases (such as mailservers), instead of them. Are you still running Telnet?
http://domains.google.com/about/features.html Integration with Google cloud resources (a la AWS Route 53), 10 million lookups/year free, pricing appears off the bat to be $12/year, free private registration. And support! "With Google Domains, you get phone and email support (M-F, 9am to 9pm EST)."
I wonder how they will staff the support. Contractors or employees? Has Google bought a domain company recently? This looks like a sensational service. Curious the sign up for an invitation only asked if you've bought a domain before.
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Exactly my thoughts. It may be acceptable-ish for a personal home page, but using this for anything that's remotely useful and/or has more than one user, no way in hell. Already tried that with email (Google Apps for Business), and the punishment was swift like the new Apple programming language.
>and the punishment was swift like the new Apple programming language What happened exactly?
- Your traffic (Search)
- Your analytics (Analytics)
- Your income (AdSense)
- Your advertising (AdWords)
- Your hosting (App Engine)
- Your DNS (Cloud DNS)
- Your domains (this)
That gives their search algorithm a pretty full picture of who owns your website, where you get your content, how much customers like it, any other sites you own, how much traffic you get, how much money you make.
And they can delist you whenever they want.
No thanks. I'll keep my Google to a minimum.
Really, Google? You are calling the new gTLDs "domain endings"? Is that what we're supposed to call them?
People need to be educated about this new literacy. Instead, we have the people in the best position to do that education possibly trying to maintain ignorance. sigh