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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Domains

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $12

    per year

    LightEdge

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ALightEdge Services, headquartered in Des Moines, offers a suite of colocation and infrastructural services with support including security consulting, compliance consulting (e.g. HIPAA), and disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) for users of its colocation services.N/A
    Pricing
    Google DomainsLightEdge
    Editions & Modules
    .com
    $12.00
    per year
    .net
    $12.00
    per year
    .org
    $12.00
    per year
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    Pricing Offerings
    Google DomainsLightEdge
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Google DomainsLightEdge
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    Google
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    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Google DomainsLightEdge
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Domains and LightEdge
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    Google Domains
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    Ratings
    LightEdge
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Namecheap
    Score6.2 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google DomainsLightEdge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (25 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Google DomainsLightEdge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    [Google Domains is] very simplistic and easy to use, so it's very straightforward to register a new domain but it doesn't have some features that other services provide. Also, the integration with other Google Services and domain search tool is amazing.
    Incentivized
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    LightEdge
    OnRamp is great for medium or large size companies that need to organize information in a way that is easily accessible. It is not great for small companies who don't have a lot of customers.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Google
    • Process of buying a domain with Google Domains is easy
    • Payment was simple - can use Google Wallet and other forms of payment.
    • After purchase, you can quickly build a website with one of their partners.
    • Email forwarding add-on for free.
    Incentivized
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    LightEdge
    • OnRamp does a great job at pulling up specific contact information about our donors
    • OnRamp allows for us to find detailed payment information regarding postings to our general ledger
    • It is very easy to run various reports with OnRamp
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Google
    • Google Domains is pretty good at pre-solving email faux pas such as reply all mishaps. Perhaps a built-in email monitoring tool such as knowing when a customer opens up an email would be good. You can get these features with integrations, but what if it was an internal Google product? Might be nice
    • Email masking was a bit difficult to figure out, but nothing you can't discover with a few Google sessions.
    • I wish I could see more insight into time zones that my customers are in, or scheduling calls on Gcal with timezone awareness. I know this is super hard to code around though.
    Incentivized
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    LightEdge
    • I hear complaints from our donations department on how extractions can be difficult at times when pulling multiple years information
    • OnRamp can make room for improvement by allowing us to make changes from an admin standpoint on how we pull up certain reports
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    Unless the product goes away, I'll continue using it.
    Incentivized
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    LightEdge
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    Because it is intuitively easy to use, like all of their products. The integration with other apps works seamlessly, and you can have a professional website within hours, rather than days, as with most hosting companies. The templates on the website builder for just about every business make it so simple that even I can do it!
    Incentivized
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    LightEdge
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Google
    I've never actually had to use support because everything has been very straightforward and I have not had a glitch. I have used Google's support for other items so I can only imagine that it's probably the same support which is decent. They do take a while to get back to you.
    Incentivized
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    LightEdge
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    GoDaddy is great, but what I really like about Google Domains when compared to GoDaddy is the ease of centralization. Our email, calendar, accounts, domain, etc was all handled in one place and that made things really easy. You could also access domains easily and quickly by being logged into your email, instead of worrying about yet another log in.
    Incentivized
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    LightEdge
    OnRamp is much easier to use then Financial Edge with its user-friendly interface. Financial Edge seems dated and is much more complicated when running reports.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Being able to host my URL with Google Domains is one less thing I have to worry about in my writing career.
    • I'm sure having my URL, which is my name, with Google Domains also helps people find me via Google's search engine.
    • Its ease of integration with other Google products, especially Google Apps for Business, is a huge plus for marketing and day-to-day work.
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    LightEdge
    • OnRamp saves us time on retrieving data
    • OnRamp helps us organize payment information and makes it easily accessible for users
    • The security of using OnRamp is the best investment a company can make.
    Incentivized
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