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Google Registry Preferred Partner Program

The Google Registry Preferred Partner Program has been updated to better identify, recognize, and reward our Preferred Partners who offer their customers an improved user experience and have shown they are committed to growing healthy registrations in our gTLDs.

Our Preferred Partners will be featured prominently in our marketing and will qualify for participating in our promotional opportunities.

Preferred Partner Qualifications

Baseline requirements

  • Carry premium names for Google Registry TLDs

  • Provide registrants with easy access to obtain SSL certificates within the same flow as domain selection, prior to checkout. This would take one of the following forms:

  • Provide a good user experience, focused on simplicity and customer benefit. This is judged in the sole discretion of Google Registry.

Weighted metrics

  • Renewal rate

  • Comparative volume of Google Registry registrations in registrar’s full portfolio

  • Abuse rate

Google Registry takes the metrics listed above into consideration and weighs them to form a single Preferred Partner score. If the Preferred Partner score meets or exceeds the baseline threshold established for a particular promotion, the registrar is then pre-qualified to participate for the promotion pending any additional terms and conditions requirements.

How do I become a Google Registry registrar partner?

Please fill out this form if you're interested in becoming a registrar partner. Please note that Google Registry registrar partners must be ICANN-accredited registrars.

How is Charleston Road Registry related to Google?

Charleston Road Registry (CRR), also known as Google Registry, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google. Because ICANN requires that registrars and registries remain separate entities, and Google is an ICANN-accredited registrar, CRR exists as a separate company from Google. We offer equivalent terms to all registrars in terms of pricing, awarding domains, or any other domain operations; we'll partner with any ICANN-accredited registrars that are interested in our domains and meet any additional criteria that we set for a TLD.

Where can I find details about Google Registry's DNS security practices (also known as the DNSSEC Practice Statement)?

Our DNSSEC Practice Statement contains all relevant security and related operational information for Google Registry DNS. It is structured in compliance with RFC 6841.

What is Google Registry doing to help protect trademark owners on their TLDs?

Google Registry complies with all of ICANN's rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) for the new gTLD program. This means we participate in things ICANN created such as the Trademark Clearinghouse, Sunrise period, and dispute resolution procedures. We’ve also implemented enhanced RPMs such as a free, permanent Trademark Claims Service, permitting brand owners to monitor domain registrations incorporating their trademarks across our TLDs. In addition, Google Registry sets domain prices in a way that is conscientious of brand owners' budgets, and doesn't charge special premiums for Sunrise registrations.