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Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by slavik81 »

pcurve wrote: post #292
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!

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

Tilt Brush has been dead for over two years.

> The open source archive of the Tilt Brush code can be found at: https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush. Please note that it is not an actively developed product, and no pull requests will be accepted.

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/01/the-future-of-tilt...

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Post by DeathArrow »

pcurve wrote: post #292
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!

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

> They have ~100 left.

Yet.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by jay_kyburz »

katbyte wrote: post #348
delecti wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Python 2.7 released 14 years ago. About 8.5 years ago (5+ years later), it was announced that Python 2.7 would be supported until 2020. You had over 5 years to prepare for it, and then Google supported it for another 3 years beyond even that generous warning.

So? Let’s say you had an old large code base in 100,000s of lines of code that just works and has been mostly untouched for years in eol/maintenance. you expect there to be budget or time to rewrite it into python 3 for literally no reason other then “2.7 is deprecated”? It’s far cheaper, potentially millions cheaper, to just change clouds/providers and find a way to continue on 2.7.

Active State is providing support and patches for 2.7 for exactly this reason.

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Post by arrow7000 »

chippiewill wrote: post #417
_xivi wrote: post #412

Does Google have no strategy, like at all? Just last year, it was announced that "Google Domains is out of beta"

Google announce things are out of Beta when they're looking to attract business customers. Apparently it didn't work. Or they were juicing up their customer base for the sale.

"Oh no we had our service out of beta for 3 weeks and it didn't become a multi billion dollar business, guess we better shut it down immediately"

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Post by donny2018 »

ororroro wrote: post #406
shawabawa3 wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's chat? Not gchat surely? Didn't hangouts migrate to meet?

Together Chat and Meet are the replacement for Hangouts. Meet is also the replacement for Duo.

Allo entered the chat.

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Post by 1una »

lpgauth wrote: post #162
tomklein wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iirc, custom DNS at CF refers to using your own subdomains as name servers for CF instead of the regular *.ns.cloudflare.com. Basically a form of whitelabelling. Specifying 3rd party name servers as your domain’s name server was (still is?) not possible with Cloudflare Registrar. (Disclaimer: I work there)

It’s pretty crazy that you can’t setup a custom 3rd party name server. I can’t even transfer my domain from one Cloudflare account to another without transferring my domain to another registrar…

That's the strategy. They offer "at-cost pricing", but force you to use their own name server.

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Post by account42 »

andersrs wrote: post #140
cocoa19 wrote: post #137

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I was disturbed by learning squatters no longer just sell domains for big bucks, some of them started to offer them for rent.

That's awful. So someone pays them them, builds a website on their property and they still have you by the balls. I guess you'd only rent to add a redirect over to a new domain. I've just tried negotiating with a squatter. I'm trying to resurrect a web game with a few thousand players which the original dev neglected. I've rebuilt it on another domain but the community have game data stored in the browser localStorag…

I guess that's yet another problem of the web platform - data locked to individual operators and not available to others even when the user wants it to be.

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Post by rpadovani »

hnbad wrote: post #420
fomine3 wrote: post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exposure Notifications was a great try by Google and Apple. If it weren't a thing, most big government would develop more privacy invasive contact tracing app. It seems that it wasn't worked well, but still a great try.

The German "Corona Warn App" (CWA) is pretty good from a privacy POV. It works along the same lines as the Google/Apple ones I think (trading tokens over Bluetooth, then publishing a list of "infected" tokens when you submit a positive test result, risk severity being based on how many tokens you match, i.e. how long you were in the same space). The difference is that it isn't tied to any American corporation. Of cou…

CWA was using the Exposure Notifications from Apple and Google[0].

Exposure Notifications is not an app, but a framework and a protocol, and CWA was an implementation of it, hooking in the features developed by Apple and Google for iOs and Android

[0]: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma...

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Post by SSLy »

dreamer7 wrote: post #410
ssnistfajen wrote: post #373

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they kill Keep, that will be the catalyst for me to ideologically de-Google my online life. My previous Google-induced losses were largely replacable but Keep is absolutely the final straw.

I already migrated from Keep just for this reason. It's ok to make temporary notes there but for long lasting organisation I prefer a different solution

What did you pick?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by rldjbpin »

very interesting to sell it off when you still got a cloud division. at least with the recent AIaaS paradigm, they are not going to wind that down.

now is a good time as any for cloudflare to "amazon lightsail" their domain offerings.

but personally, i am still on the lookout for a good EU registrar with fair pricing and no risk of future acquisition.

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