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Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by monero-xmr »

Masema wrote: post #346
monero-xmr wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

8 figures of what, doll hairs? Seriously, 10s of millions wasn't worth switching?

It would have taken a solid year of work and all of my DevOps resources, for what? The customers won’t know or care. If I wanted to burn $5 million in salary and a year of feature development I’d rather figure out an on-prem solution, because at least someone might want that. The “pay to switch cloud” model doesn’t make sense.

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Post by omoikane »

clhodapp wrote: post #273

This bites because there was a little-documented little integration between Google Domains and Gmail to allow you to use a custom domain for a personal Gmail address.

If your domain registrar supports forwarding emails, I think you can continue to receive emails through a custom domain.

Sending email with your custom domain in the from/reply-to address is a different business, I recall it requires getting gmail to verify that you can receive via that custom address, and also set the mail server to smtp.gmail.com port 587.

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Post by tebbers »

schemescape wrote: post #240

It says they’ll only honor existing prices for 12 months after the transaction closes. Any recommendations on where/how to transfer to get a) similar price, b) mail forwarding, and c) self-service subdomains? (Maybe the last two are standard—I have no idea since I’ve always used Google Domains)

Cloudflare is even cheaper than Google AFAIK. I already use them for my main domains and will probably move all my other Google domains over there as well.

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Post by AlbertCory »

DLA wrote: post #204

Yet 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!

That's where my domain comes from. Unless Squarespace suddenly turns them all over to the public or raises the price by 10x, this isn't quite the same as losing all your data in a cancelled product.

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Post by adrr »

wyclif wrote: post #191

Google simply has no incentive to serve the customer who uses them for domain management. They make so much money from ads that they're far more concerned about their ad revenue than they are about money from paying customers.

Amazon makes so much money of e-commerce yet manage to support their cloud computing business which includes domain management. Their CEO is just incompetent and can’t run a business that has multiple major revenue streams.

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Post by jsnell »

feyman_r wrote: post #196
panarky wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has killed more products than Google.

Without a source mentioned, I assume you refer to this[1]? A comparison shows most products that should be dead are on that list. G, on the other hand, has products actively used and loved by users. [1] https://killedbymicrosoft.info/

How many of the products on the Killed by Google list do you think is "products actively used and loved by users"? Like half a dozen on that whole list? How many had you even heard about?

This Domains shutdown definitely qualifies for the short list though, and is the most mystifying shutdown of theirs in like a decade. It was a paid service with clear strategic importance and clearly a ton of happy customers.

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Post by mardifoufs »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #210
foolswisdom wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare is known for controlling infra, while those Google examples are end user applications. Just saying.

The protocols Google is redefining to be user hostile are a layer below even infrastructure. The very nature of HTTP and DNS are being rewritten to serve Google's business interests.

Hostile to what? Enterprise middleware that wants to snoop on their users (sure, fair) so they demand entire standards to allow for said snooping? Enterprise users are a small minority of end users.

I guess DNS over https can be antiuser (even for normal consumers) in the sense that it makes it harder to block ads at the dns level but quic?

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Post by yett »

scrollaway wrote: post #328
schemescape wrote: post #240

It says they’ll only honor existing prices for 12 months after the transaction closes. Any recommendations on where/how to transfer to get a) similar price, b) mail forwarding, and c) self-service subdomains? (Maybe the last two are standard—I have no idea since I’ve always used Google Domains)

I use Gandi which has all the TLDs, with Cloudflare as my nameserver. This setup means I get reasonable prices with a single point of purchase for all my domains, but also get a decent UI and API to manage the DNS. Cloudflare email makes mail forwarding incredibly easy too. You get this as well in this setup.

They are increasing prices https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321783 https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-usd-renew-p...

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Post by adrr »

andrewstuart wrote: post #332

The next closest thing to cancellation. Why is the CEO still there at Google? One day Google will really need developers and the developers won’t be there.

Sundar is trying to be the next Steve Ballmer. Alienate the tech community by just focusing on cost cutting. I do wonder if he would have cut YouTube back when it was bleeding cash if we was the CEO back then.
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