Google Domains

[Michael Butash]

On 06/25/2014 08:19 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>
> Go Daddy's DNA service is one of the best in the world, their DNSSec 
> is the best I have ever seen, and they offer a variety of niche items 
> like vanity name servers. Plus they often sell domains at a loss and 
> the next ten largest competitors for actively served authoritative 
> zones don't add up to what they do. Now if Google really becomes a 
> competitor I bet Go Daddy would do something to run the tides like 
> start offering free premium service or increase thier infrastructure. 
> All of which would be amazing.
>
Like with everything, "free" or "freemium" isn't always free. Godaddy 
gets theirs, and that's with marketing.  Stewarding some 55m domains 
comes with the added benefit of you steer some part of 98% of the worlds 
infrastructure through you at some time or another, whether it's 
authoritative dns for the domain, root records, glue, or other.  That's 
analytics they sell to microsoft, google, about anyone else they can 
sell it out to.

Parkweb that floats the domains when no site is there by default (and 
serves, gee, ads go figure) for a large percent of those 55m domains 
make for prime real estate for revenue generating trackers and other 
things.  So much so Microsoft paid them in partnerships to convert that 
from apache to iis back in the day 
<http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/04/june_2006_web_server_survey.html>, 
making "iis the most popular server on the internet" at the time per 
microsoft marketing jargon released the next day coincidentally.

Now Google wants to snatch the pebble from their hand, one dns to 
rule/adword them all, and go to the source to bypass revenue to GD. Most 
people already use their *gracious* offer of free dns already, giving 
them the data now everything their pc connects a socket to and does a 
name lookup on.

GD's infrastructure is actually pretty top notch already.  You'd be 
amazed the battering it takes in ddos daily and keeps on ticking. That 
bit of DNS latency is infrastructure to keep it ticking...

In full disclosure, I used to work there (twice actually), and know too 
much of the dirty laundry, as well as some pride in building that 
infrastructure.  :)

-mb

> http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/
>
> What ever happens I cam sure it will be cool :)
>
> On Jun 24, 2014 10:44 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net 
> <mailto:michael at butash.net>> wrote:
>
>     http://domains.google.com/about/
>
>     Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're worried.  ;)
>
>     -mb
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