Google Domain Services
About one week ago Google and GoDaddy have teamed up and came with a service for domain registration at Google, currently they are only offering the American and widely used TLDs .com, .net, .biz, and .info, its expected that theyll come up with a more international list next year. But, as clever as the Google marketing team is, it doesnt stop at domain registration, For your $10 you get a lot more.
Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer private-labeled email, IM and calendar accounts to all of your users, so they can share ideas and work more effectively. These services are all unified by the start page, a new addition to this service, a unique, dynamic page where your users can preview their inboxes and calendars, browse content and links that you choose, search the web, and further customize the page to their liking. You can also design and publish web pages for your domain.
If you already have a domain, its all free and everything is hosted by Google. No hardware or software required. If you dont have a domain yet well help you register a new one for $10 a year.
They are currently offering the following services for the domain registration customers:
- Start page; A central place for your users to preview their inboxes and calendars, access your essential content, and search the web.
- Gmail; Offer email to your users with 2 gigabytes of storage per account, search tools to help them find information fast, and instant messaging built right into the browser.
- Google Talk; Your users can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free — anytime, anywhere in the world.
- Google Calendar; Users can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others.
- Google Page Creator; Create and publish web pages for your domain quickly and easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get page design tool.
With all of these tools working exactly like they would on the regular Google pages, but then instead personalised on your own domain, Google and GoDaddy might have assembled a pretty nice product. Especially since there are by no doubt more Gmail and Google users than of the open webmail applications that are currently available for everyone with the know-how to set it up. No doubt recommended for the people that are less tech savvy but still want to set up their own domain, I wonder how long it will take until Dreamhost and the other big hosting companies come up with a similiar product.
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