When you are at that juncture of your life, you would have lots of options laid out before you - especially if you just Googled it and you didn’t find a suitable solution.
There are many Domain name registration service providers like GoDaddy, Register.com, Domain.com and then our post’s main point of discussion - Google apps for business.
This post aims at providing three main topics about Google apps for Business which you wanted to know.
About | Services | Pricing
About: Google Apps for Business was started by Google, Inc. as their proprietary web productivity tools. For a complete history of Google Apps, check out this Wikipedia article. It was an idea of Rajen Sheth, a product manager of Google enterprise, who is known as ‘father of Google Apps’. He was also responsible for development of Chrome and Chrome OS for Business.
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Google Apps for Business is offered for FREE for 30 days. Post which a fixed fee is charged based on the number of users you want to register. As on date, it’s USD 5 per user per month or USD 50 per year. They offer two ways of pricing - fixed and flexible. On the other hand, Google Apps for Education is completely FREE and offers the same amount of storage as Google Apps for Business. You also get to register your domain through Google Apps for Business.
This is a much better thing to be done using Google for two main reasons:
1. Making use of Google’s home grown benefits: Google is known for its content indexing. Registering a domain through this makes it easy to utilise their home-grown indexing opportunities; Google+ makes it even more easier along with back links, Page Rank which are Google’s key factors to order their search results. Overall it helps with the SEO.
2. Protecting your sensitive personal data: Since personal details like phone number, email addresses, business address details are required to register a domain name it becomes highly sensitive data to play with. And none of us want to get this in the hands of notorious hackers. But domain names registered with Google helps in protecting your personal details and doesn’t show up in the WhoIs searches.
With these products up your sleeve to start your new start up, it’s hopefully easier for you now to decide if Google Apps for Business is worth paying for.
For even more details, the following video provides you a quick intro in to What Google Apps for Business is straight from Google itself:
Written by Arun Sarathy.