According to the list of ICANN-accredited registrars, Google is now a domain registrar. The fast-growing search provider is approved to sell names in seven top-level domains (TLDs) including .com, .net, .org, .biz., info, .name and .pro.

Google's registrar status, first noted by LexText, is likely to prompt speculation about its ambitions in web hosting and blogging. Google operates Blogger, the free blog hosting service with a huge user base. Cheap or free domain names could prove useful to Google in the notoriously price-sensitive blog hosting sector, where most bloggers use subdomains (i.e. myblog.bloghost.com) rather than full domain names (www.myblog.com).

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Check out this new rumour: NickW mentions that it is one of the ways to get out of the sandbox, buy a domain name from Google.

According to , Google may have removed the limit of 101K, allowing a deeper indexing of web documents.

Until now, Google only indexes the first 101KB of any web document (excluding external files embedded in the HTML page such as images, CSS or JS files).

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any example of large indexed documents. The query apple bassoon consequently deer wind xylophone yellow zip suggested by Tara Calishain doesn't give any result here... I'm going to make another tests!