Sad. I'm surprised Domains wasn't rolled into Google Workspace.
Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
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#172Does anyone have an ELI5 for how to proceed? I have several websites that use this. What's the course of action required here, if any?
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#173I missed this story earlier today. I appreciate it popping up even if it is a dupe.
Guess I'll have to transfer a bunch of domains now.
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#174I think this one officially concludes “don’t trust Google for anything”. Maybe I’m not familiar enough with GCP, but why is this not just rolled into GCP? Is it even possible to buy a domain on GCP when this rolls off?
As a user of GCP it reads as a huge red flag to me that they offloaded this instead of rolling it into GCP.
Domains are a pretty core part of cloud infrastructure. The fact that they could have brought domains under GCP and didn’t makes me wonder what they know about the future of GCP that isn’t public yet.
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#176Does this impact Google apps (or whatever their grandfathered personal email hosting/google drive is called now)? I hope it's just the registration component, but I think I should plan the move to another email/file sharing provider.
EDIT: Looks it is answered here. We become customers of squarespace for that too, so I doubt it will be free after this. Time to plan the move. https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670
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#177> In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” (…) Google killing a product should no longer be a surprise to anyone. It’s the opposite of Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition: everybody expects it. https://killedbygoogle.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty...
Microsoft has killed more products than Google.
The difference is no one misses them.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft has killed more products than Google.
Most of them still run, though. Either directly on modern Windows or with something like ReactOS. You can't keep using Inbox once it's shut down.
>Most of them still run
specifically, how are those audio files bought from the M$ mu$ic store when they pulled the plug on the licensing server for their DRM?
your claim of still running on modern Windows would be impressive if it is actually true, but saying to use a completely different OS is not something the vast majority of people not typically reading HN are going to do.
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#179(in the voice of David Attenborough) And thus starts the great domain migration of 2023. 10 million fledgling domains begin their search for safety in new homes, far away from the coming impending onslaught of upsells and limited time offer emails. Some will find refuge in Cloudflare, others, not so.
I moved a domain away from Cloudflare a month or so ago, only to be faced with this. Just my luck.
How does something like this work with the rules on moving domains around quickly. Isn't there like a 6 month time out between moves?
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#180(in the voice of David Attenborough) And thus starts the great domain migration of 2023. 10 million fledgling domains begin their search for safety in new homes, far away from the coming impending onslaught of upsells and limited time offer emails. Some will find refuge in Cloudflare, others, not so.
Thanks! I just realized "describe in the voice of David Attenborough" is a great prompt.
eventually, all of our conversations will read like prompts to an LLM of some sort