.google

Introduced	September 4, 2014; 9 years ago (2014-09-04)
Registry	Alphabet Inc.
Sponsor	Charleston Road Registry Inc.
Intended use	Google's products
Registration restrictions	.google domains can only be registered by Alphabet's employees
DNSSEC	Yes
Registry website	www.registry.google

.google is a brand top-level domain (TLD) used in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Created in 2014, it is operated by Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company.^[1] It is notable as one of the first gTLDs associated with a specific brand.^[1] The company's first usage of the TLD was with com.google, an April Fools' Day joke website that hosted a horizontally mirrored version of Google Search.^[2] The domain currently hosts multiple Alphabet Inc. products and services, and plans exist to move other Alphabet properties to .google as well.^[3]

Google also owns a number of other top-level domains, including .goog^[4] (for sites such as partneradvantage.goog and pki.goog), .gmail^[5] (a Brand TLD relating to its Gmail service), .gle^[6] (for shortened URLs such as goo.gle and forms.gle), .chrome^[7] (for sites such as apps.chrome and the target server of hosted Chrome Apps such as calculator.apps.chrome) and .youtube^[8] (for sites such as about.youtube and blog.youtube).

The .chrome, .gle, .gmail, .google, and .youtube TLDs have all been included in the HSTS preload-list; as a result, popular web browsers will only connect to a webpage in one of those domains using HTTPS.