Alphabet Inc.
Est. 2015 · Mountain View, United States
Alphabet Inc. is the holding company Google reorganized itself under in 2015. Its role in the domain and DNS ecosystem runs through Google Cloud DNS and a history of strategic domain investments.
Google Cloud DNS is an authoritative DNS service handling billions of queries daily for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. It holds 3.98% market share across over 10 million domains in global DNS datasets. The same infrastructure carries Google's own web presence, including Gmail, YouTube, and Search, and is sold to enterprise customers.
In 2023 Alphabet divested Google Domains to Squarespace for $180 million, exiting domain registration while keeping its position in DNS services.
Domain acquisitions have tracked broader business interests: shop.app for $200,000 to support e-commerce initiatives, and abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com at the launch of the Alphabet brand.
Google Cloud DNS is part of a cloud platform that also includes compute, storage, and networking services, so domain resolution and application hosting can be managed within a single ecosystem.
Total Domains
10,154,207
Market Share
3.64%
Brands
1
Brands & Subsidiaries
Brand | Domains | Market Share |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud DNS | 10,154,207 | 3.64% |
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Domain counts and market share percentages are based on DNS Checker's analysis of TLD zone files and may not represent total domains under management.