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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 shawabawa3 »

drawkbox wrote: post #441
w10-1 wrote: post #74

I'm sad to see this, not b/c I like Google, but because domain names are otherwise a manipulative space, and Google was saving us from that. Domain service - name registry - is a weird market because it includes cross-subsidizing businesses and the information has value (and people will pay for anonymity to avoid hassle), so buy decisions aren't just price/performance. Google and Cloudflare can offer it near cost jus…

I agree Google had trust here and it was nice to have them in the game. With this infrastructure move especially, it is hard to trust in Google. This can't have been losing money or been that costly. Google why? Google Domains integrates well with Google Cloud and Google Workspace and other products. Even if it was a loss leader it had to be useful. Tell me how this makes sense.

This is what i find strange about this

Surely this was at worse profit neutral, or could have been with a modest price hike, I know I would have continued using them even if their domains were an extra $1/year vs competitors because I trusted them more

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Post by dmnthrowaway »

minitech wrote: post #467
dmnthrowaway wrote: post #466

Hopefully a good place to ask: My family name .com is still available. That should be very rare in 2023. The name has only 4 letters. It is also a word that is hard to pronounce in the english speaking world and I hope to get a reasonable price with that argument. Chances for a company with that name are slim and I also have no company or business in that name (normal employed software dev that I am) The squatter in…

Pick a different TLD and don’t fund squatters.

Valid response but I feel like that is 20 years too late. The squatting has already happened, there is no prevention now

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by yunohn »

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

To be fair, 100 globally scaled products is quite a lot. They try to churn out a lot stuff, and if they don’t achieve enough adoption, they cancel it. It’s a reasonable business decision.

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Post by robertlagrant »

hnbad wrote: post #418
saagarjha wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exposure Notifications was designed to be deprecated, though? It was a pandemic thing.

The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous. We have however wound down most of the protective measures. Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next.

> The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous

It's just as dangerous (well, it's probably not, due to less lethal variants winning over more lethal ones), but that measure is not what makes it no longer a pandemic.

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Post by abhayhegde »

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

I hope Keep, Scholar, and Google Lens don't go away! I use them extensively, especially, the Google scholar page.

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Post by doctor_eval »

b112 wrote: post #419
pcurve wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Google once tried to setup a 'smart' community in Toronto, including wanting control over police and laws and all sorts of other absurd blather. Can you imagine living in such a community? I can't believe people rely upon gmail for anything . Integrate anything . When I see a business using gmail for a backend, I question their entire business model, because I question their judgement .

Wow, you just explained the unpleasant tingly feeling I get when people talk about using Google for infra. I now understand that it's my judgement-radar pinging.

I happen to feel the same way about companies that use JIRA... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Post by wildrhythms »

TX81Z wrote: post #415
CSMastermind wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this one is actually stunning. Does anyone know why Google is doing this? Like have they released their explanation?

100% sure the decision was political.

What does this mean?

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Post by wildrhythms »

bombcar wrote: post #157
wildrhythms wrote: post #4

This is so disappointing. I never had an issue with Google Domains. It offered free WHOIS protection, easy to buy a domain and set it up. Nothing fancy. No BS fees. Shame

Most registrars offer free privacy settings now, even Epik. Maybe Godaddy doesn’t.

They offer that now, but back in 2014 when Google Domains launched many registrars offered it with an additional fee (like $1 per mo or some other ridiculous pittance). I admit I don't know the GDPR ramifications of such a thing now.
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