Fri. Sep 5th, 2025

Google to Discontinue National Domains for Search

Google will stop supporting national domain names for its search engine. This announcement was made by service representatives on their official website.

Starting April 16th, all users will be gradually redirected to google.com, regardless of the domain specified in the address bar. National domains were initially implemented in the early years of the search engine to provide users with more relevant search results in their respective countries and regions. However, this became unnecessary in 2017 as the domain no longer impacts the processing of search queries.

By Callum Darby

Callum Darby, 34, based in Manchester. A former semi-professional Dota 2 player who transitioned into journalism. Specializes in statistical match analysis and tournament result predictions.

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