I'm slightly disappointed they haven't set up http://google.blog yet. https://ge...

tomschlick · on Sept 30, 2016

I think you can signup but can't actually get them yet.

ocdtrekkie · on Sept 30, 2016

If Google buys it, they'll probably just buy it to squat it, rather than use it. They're probably butthurt they lost out on the .blog gTLD. Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And Google cost us the option of having a .dev gTLD, that's for Google's use only.

"Let's not forget, the Californian goliath had tried to bag .blog, which it intended to pair with its Blogger service so that the only way to get a .blog domain would be to use Blogger."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtl...

markdown · on Sept 30, 2016

> Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users.

And they lost to Wordpress, who did exactly that.

ocdtrekkie · on Sept 30, 2016

That appears to be false, as https://nic.blog/ is soliciting registrars to offer it and .blog does not appear on ICANN's list of exclusive use gTLDs.

markdown · on Sept 30, 2016

Ohh, great to hear. Thanks for the correction. I was right about ownership, but not about what they plan to do with it.

https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/