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  1. Google Is Now A Domain Registrar

    Google is now an ICANN-accredited registrar of domain names, providing it with yet another potential line of expansion. The fast-growing search provider is approved to sell names in seven top-level domains (TLDs) including .com, .net, .org, .biz., info, .name and .pro.

    Google's registrar status, first noted by LexText, is likely to prompt speculation about its ambitions in web hosting and blogging. Google operates Blogger, the free blog hosting service with a huge user base. Cheap or free domain names could prove useful to Google in the notoriously price-sensitive blog hosting sector, where most bloggers use subdomains (i.e. myblog.bloghost.com) rather than full domain names (www.myblog.com).

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 31st January, 2005 in Around the Net Share

  2. SBC Deal for AT&T Raises Hosting Decision for Comcast

    SBC Communications' $16 billion purchase of AT&T will create America's largest telecom company. But it will also boost SBC's profile in the web hosting business, where AT&T has an impressive portfolio of blue-chip customers - including SBC's biggest competitor in the U.S. broadband market.

    Comcast Communications, the largest U.S. provider of broadband, currently hosts its high-speed Internet service at AT&T WorldNet, while its corporate site resides at Digex, a unit of MCI. SBC is America's largest provider of high-speed ISDN Internet access over phone lines, and is in a pitched battle for subscribers with Comcast, reflecting a larger war for broadband supremacy between cable providers and phone companies.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 31st January, 2005 in Hosting Share