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Google Registry

fully owned subsidiary of Google

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ125767815 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (CRR), doing business as Google Registry, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google LLC. It is the domain name registry that Google uses to handle its top-level domains (TLDs).

History

The company was founded on February 8, 2012 due to requirements by ICANN that domain name registries and registrars be separate legal entities.

Editorial summary

“Google Registry” enters the record as fully owned subsidiary of Google. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Google, Registry and fully can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-02-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Google, Registry and fully.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Google Registry” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Google, Registry and fully provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125767815. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Google Registry”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Google Registry primary sources, Google Registry archive and Google research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Google Registry”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Google Registry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.