Google Domains is finally out of beta after more 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 introduced Tuesday. The service is now typically obtainable in 26 international locations, and the corporate says it already has “thousands and thousands of energetic registrations.”

When you register with Google Domains, you’ll be able to choose from greater than 300 totally different area endings, have entry to “excessive efficiency DNS” (Google says it’s the identical infrastructure it makes use of for itself), “around-the-clock buyer help from actual folks,” and extra. The corporate can be providing a 20 p.c low cost off “any single area registration or transfer-in to Google Domains” for brand spanking new and returning customers with the code DOMAINS20.

Nevertheless, if you happen to register a site with Google Domains, you’ll nonetheless want to really construct an internet site to make use of with it. Google unsurprisingly suggests its Google Websites product but additionally recommends its “premium companions,” 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.