Oh well, Cloudflare Registrar here I come. And when I next choose a CDN etc. service it won't be from Google.
Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
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#292Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!
They've killed off almost 300.
They have ~100 left.
https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/products/
What do you think will go next?
I'm sure some of these will bite the bullet this year.
1. Exposure Notifications (maybe in 2-3 years) 2. Google Arts and Culture <- this one has to be expensive to maintain 3. Keep 4. Scholar 5. Tilt Brush 6. Google Lens 7. Google Groups 8. Google Drawings
Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked for Squarespace 2010-2012 and the focus from management was mainly on keeping customers happy. It's not like it's ad focused and there's a need to extract maximum value from the userbase. It's possible that's changed in the last decade but Anthony (CEO) was really into having a premium product and a quick glance at the about page shows that most of the senior leadership hasn't changed so I don't see why they…
I appreciate they don't have a dozen stupid upsells on domains like GoDaddy. But $20 a year is a straight ripoff.
I thought this was $20 a year for hosting, and thought "that's cheap!"
But this is actually $20 a year for a domain, which is about 50-80% more expensive than most other domain hosting, including Google Domains.
Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google seems to have bailed on Google Cloud. You should try and find something in the docs these days. When I first started using GAE 10 years ago it really felt like somebody lovingly crafted a nice solution to a complex problem. It's not that anymore.
Interesting, I first used GCP maybe 7 years ago and really liked it. Two years ago I came back to it for a year and couldn’t put my finger on it, but it seemed quite a bit worse. I wasn’t sure if it was a case of rose tinted glasses. Like you mentioned, the docs were really shoddy when I needed them. Certain conventions felt half baked compared to AWS, and I don’t even like AWS to begin with. Overall it seemed like t…
> It’s a shame, I wish there was a cloud provider that I actually liked
I'm curious what it is about Azure that puts you off.
Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
#295Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!
Google seems to have bailed on Google Cloud. You should try and find something in the docs these days. When I first started using GAE 10 years ago it really felt like somebody lovingly crafted a nice solution to a complex problem. It's not that anymore.
They still offer startups money to switch. Last year they offered my company 8 figures to go from AWS to GCP. Of course I said no because… that’s insane and useless. You have to wonder how many companies they are paying to use their subpar tech.
Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
#296God damn it. Google Domains was my registrar of choice because I figured I wouldn't have to ever think about logistics and their lookup rules. Ah well. I guess I'll see what Squarespace does to the experience. I'd transfer them to Cloudflare, but have similar concerns.
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#297I purchase all my domains from AWS Route53 to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I wonder what the rationale for doing this is? I just assumed cloud providers offered domain registration as a loss leader keep you in their ecosystem. Can AWS offer support for “.dev” domains so I can transfer it there?
If AWS ever decides to suspend your root account, good luck with that. They never, ever, ever give it back. I had a root account I used for free tier stuff on my primary e-mail address that I never got back because I had $2 charges I didn't pay for 4 months because I didn't realize they were even trying to charge me.
Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
Registrars in general have many failure modes. Customer service nightmares (stakes being high if you lose an important domain, either through error or social engineering), malicious behavior (NetworkSolutions sniffing searches to buy domains[1], WhoIs privacy shell companies used to steal domain ownership, Unregistry increasing some of their new gTLDs by 500+%[2]), stability problems are all non-rare occurances. It's…
Sure; but, we're talking about Squarespace specifically. Why are they problematic? And, how are they problematic for someone that decided Google was a trustworthy company to register their domains with, knowing their history to kill all of their products?
Sorry, my answer was for why transferring to _any_ registrar is a problem. It involves a lot of trust built up over time. I don't know SquareSpace's business dealings, but I'm sure many others who were on Google Domains don't too, and will need to build the same trust.
Google Domains has been around longer than their more recent reputation of frequently killing things. It also felt "complete". It worked (just maintain it) and people liked it, why kill it? It felt stable. But apparently everyone misjudged.
But that's also why I personally am no longer on Gmail, Google Drive, Google itself, etc. I have found replacements.
Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
#299Ah crap. Does anybody else support the .dev TLD?
Name cheap, but the price was higher than Google Domains
Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
#300Namecheap