Google Domains is lastly out of beta after greater than seven years

Google Domains, the corporate’s area registration service, is shedding the beta tag after first launching greater than seven years in the past, Google announced Tuesday. The service is now typically obtainable in 26 nations, and the corporate says it already has “millions of active registrations.”

If you register with Google Domains, you’ll be able to choose from greater than 300 totally different area endings, have entry to “high performance DNS” (Google says it’s the identical infrastructure it makes use of for itself), “around-the-clock customer support from real people,” and extra. The firm can be providing a 20 % low cost off “any single domain registration or transfer-in to Google Domains” for brand spanking new and returning customers with the code DOMAINS20.

However, if you happen to register a site with Google Domains, you’ll nonetheless want to truly construct a web site to make use of with it. Google unsurprisingly suggests its Google Sites product but additionally recommends its “premium partners,” which embody Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly, and Bluehost.

Google Domains has been in improvement for fairly some time — it first launched in an invite-only beta in June 2014 and was opened as much as a public beta within the US in January 2015. Even Gmail wasn’t in beta for that lengthy.