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Lupine1647 · 02-25-2006, 08:23 AM

Google does not even register the domains for themselves nor do they have a say in what gets registered. They use a service called Mark Monitor which has a service for registering a name with all the TLDs including the country ones. ICANN is a big player and the specific country that TLD belongs to has a role in picking a TLD.

Here are some wikipedia articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

02-25-2006, 08:23 AM	#4 (permalink)
Lupine1647 Elite Googler Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Google does not even register the domains for themselves nor do they have a say in what gets registered. They use a service called Mark Monitor which has a service for registering a name with all the TLDs including the country ones. ICANN is a big player and the specific country that TLD belongs to has a role in picking a TLD. Here are some wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN