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Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by account42 »

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

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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…

Kinda feels like restrictions on what you can submit to the registry (NS and glue records) should be something ICANN forbids.

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Post by scrollaway »

noja wrote: post #448
scrollaway wrote: post #387

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I know. Unfortunately, I don't know of anything better than Gandi, which actually has all the TLDs I need. Every registrar out there just has some subset. Having a single point of payment is a big deal for me; if it costs me 50 euros extra a year to not have to deal with three different UIs, logins, accounts etc it's well worth it.

Maybe Netim? https://www.netim.com/en

Thanks for the recommendation, I hadn’t heard of them. Do you use them?

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Post by joshspankit »

dylan604 wrote: post #179
akpa1 wrote: post #87

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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?

There’s no technological reason you have to wait, it’s all business rules.

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Post by veave »

simianpirate wrote: post #153
latexr wrote: post #25

> 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...

I still mourn the loss of Google Reader.

Nothing ever came close. I simply stopped using RSS altogether.

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Post by noja »

scrollaway wrote: post #452
noja wrote: post #448

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Maybe Netim? https://www.netim.com/en

Thanks for the recommendation, I hadn’t heard of them. Do you use them?

Not yet. I am about to switch. My domain bill will jump by more than 50% (comparing Gandi after 13 July 2023 with Netim for prices on renewals), and Netim came up top for an EU company doing renewals.

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Post by scrollaway »

noja wrote: post #455
scrollaway wrote: post #452

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Thanks for the recommendation, I hadn’t heard of them. Do you use them?

Not yet. I am about to switch. My domain bill will jump by more than 50% (comparing Gandi after 13 July 2023 with Netim for prices on renewals), and Netim came up top for an EU company doing renewals.

Well they have all the TLDs I care about so I will test them on one and if they work out I think I will switch. Thank you!

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Post by Zabriskije »

Porkbun wrote: post #117
_smfg wrote: post #102

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Porkbun is an excellent choice, I love their support! I wish they supported .ca domains (the only reason I'm using NameSilo) but when I asked in the past, they said they have no future plans to.

Just wanted to let you know that we recently onboarded .ca! We're slowly growing out our ccTLD portfolio too so if there are others folks have been waiting on please let us know so we can prioritized.

May you consider .it domains? Oh, and prices in EUR for EU folks. Would be nice to have VAT included too :)

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Post by paulgb »

_xivi wrote: post #408
paulgb wrote: post #235

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The comms around this has been weird —- I haven’t been able to find any mention of it from official Google channels. You’d think if they were planning to announce this they’d have a blog post and email to customers ready to go.

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670

Thanks! I couldn’t find that. Notably, no mention of if the GCP Cloud Domains product is affected or the status of Google’s TLDs.
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