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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 the top-level domains .goog[4] (for sites such as partneradvantage
- ^ a b McCarthy, Kieren (26 Nov 2014). "Google turns on shiny new .google top-level domain – but WHY?". The Register. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
- ^ Williams, Owen (1 April 2015). "Roundup: All Of Google's Jokes For April Fools' Day 2015". TNW.
- ^ "Google Registry FAQs". Google Registry. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
- ^ "Configuring DNS on the cloud.goog domain". Google Cloud. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
- ^ ".gle Registry Agreement". Icann.org. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ ".chrome Registry Agreement". www.icann.org. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
- ^ ".youtube Registry Agreement". www.icann.org. Retrieved 2022-01-26.