Google Domains, the corporate’s area registration service, is shedding the beta tag after first launching greater than seven years in the past, Google introduced Tuesday. The service is now typically accessible in 26 international locations, and the corporate says it already has “thousands and thousands of energetic registrations.”
For those who register with Google Domains, you possibly can decide from greater than 300 completely different area endings, have entry to “excessive efficiency DNS” (Google says it’s the identical infrastructure it makes use of for itself), “around-the-clock buyer assist from actual individuals,” and extra. The corporate can be providing a 20 p.c low cost off “any single area registration or transfer-in to Google Domains” for brand spanking new and returning customers with the code DOMAINS20.
Nevertheless, should you register a site with Google Domains, you’ll nonetheless want to truly construct a web site to make use of with it. Google unsurprisingly suggests its Google Websites product but additionally recommends its “premium companions,” which embrace Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly, and Bluehost.
Google Domains has been in improvement for fairly some time — it first launched in an invite-only beta in June 2014 and was opened as much as a public beta within the US in January 2015. Even Gmail wasn’t in beta for that lengthy.
