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... Google is a registrar and has been since 2005.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/01/31/google_is_now_a...

http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accredited-list.html

Thanks for correcting me, I've never used google apps so I'd never noticed you could register domains there. Personally I'd still register my own domains elsewhere as I've had bad experiences with combined registration and hosting, and even the almighty Google has been known to partake in shenanigans.

In any case I'm pretty sure you don't even have to be a registrar to get lists of newly registered domains, not that it matters because the rest of my post addresses why registration has nothing to do with this.

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