Omg Chrome did a piece on how Google will use dot chrome. Of course Chrome is ubiquitous all throughout the Google landscape, from netbooks, to the most popular web browser on the planet, to ChromeCast for your tv.
There were a couple Chrome related news items today,
Google is offering a $2.7 million bounty for cracking ChromeOS
Forbes is out with a story on an add on that turns your browser into a BitCoin wallet.
From the OMG Chrome Article:
Google hasn’t officially commented on what sites they intend to place on .chrome, but as part of the application process they were required to state an intended usage. It can be viewed on the ICANN Application Status Page, but here is the relevant paragraph:
“The mission of this gTLD, .chrome, is to provide a dedicated domain space in which Google can enact second-level domains that offer content, products and⁄or services that develop or promote the Chrome ecosystem. Specifically, the new gTLD will provide Google with greater ability to categorize its present Chrome locations online and provide a more recognizable, branded, trusted web space to the general Internet population.”
That may sound purposefully vague, but the gist is that Google wants to leverage it as a tool for separating official and unofficial Chrome resource websites. Unofficial resources, run by third-parties and community organizers, will probably not be granted a .chrome domain name. That honor will be more than likely be reserved only for official, Google owned websites.