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Introduced | September 4, 2014 |
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Registry | Alphabet Inc. |
Sponsor | Charleston Road Registry Inc. |
Intended use | Google's products |
Registration restrictions | .google domains can only be registered by Alphabet's employees |
DNSSEC | Yes |
Registry website | www |
.google is a brand top-level domain (TLD) used in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Created in 2014, it is operated by Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company.[1] It is notable as one of the first gTLDs associated with a specific brand.[1] The company's first usage of the TLD was with com.google, an April Fools' Day joke website that hosted a horizontally mirrored version of Google Search.[2] The domain currently hosts multiple Alphabet Inc. products and services, and plans exist to move other Alphabet properties to .google as well.[3]
Google also owns a number of other top-level domains, including .goog[4] (for sites such as partneradvantage
The .chrome, .gle, .gmail, .google, and .youtube TLDs have all been included in the HSTS preload-list; as a result, popular web browsers will only connect to a webpage in one of those domains using HTTPS.