Purchase a domain name from search giant Google was completely unfamiliar to me. I recently noticed a Adsense ad that was promoting Google Domain name registration in United States.

Google became a domain registrar in year 2005. The news might be old for many of you but honestly, i never heard or knew about this Google Apps feature before until this ad. The ad was showing only in United States. I found the ad while i was checking all the possible Google Adsense ads for this blog using Google Adsense sandbox preview tool.

The reason behind this unawareness can be either Google did not started selling domain name openly although they became a legal domain name seller in year 2005 OR Google did not do enough campaign or publicity for this project because they knew they cannot win this strong domain name registration battle with other famous domain registrar like Tucows, Go Daddy or Melbourne IT (Yahoo!).

…your domain will be automatically configured to work with Google services.

I hope and believe buying a domain name from Google will not provide domain buyer any advantage like getting indexed by Google bot quicker or getting a better rank in SERPs(Search Engine Result Pages). Feel free to add your opinion regarding this matter?

Below are some main features of this Google service in case if you are interested and want to buy domain name from Google Inc.

Google Domain Name Features:

• Domains are $10 USD/year
• All the domain will be automatically configured to work with other Google service smoothly.
• Domain name will come with personalized Gmail, Google Calendar, instant messaging, online document editing, and more.
• Full DNS control and management to ensure you have the flexibilty to manage, change, or move your domain settings to meet the needs of your organization
• Private registration at no additional cost to protect your personal information
• Free domain locking to protect you from unauthorized domain transfers
• Full suite of Google services on your domain including email, calendar, instant messaging, document management, and web page publishing at no additional cost