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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 sagarkamat »

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

Interesting that this page does not list Blogger. Confirmed deathwatch then?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by elforce002 »

petecooper wrote: post #449
elforce002 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to explain why did you pick porkburn? We have to switch to a different provider since google is sunsetting this product.

Sure, happy to. It's a bit long-winded, though. For context, I'm in the UK and I'm registered as a business. I was perfectly happy with Gandi until 2016 or so. Political changes in my country made dealing with the EU more complex and potentially more expensive, and I needed to to move my ~100 domain portfolio elsewhere. I originally started looking for a UK domain registrar[1] to keep the UK sales tax (VAT) simple an…

Wow. Thanks for taking the time to explain your decision making process.

Thanks to you I've narrowed down to cloud flare and pork in.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

mschuster91 wrote: post #576
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #512

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Let's Encrypt is just the carrot (and to be clear, Google is not just a top sponsor, but two of Let's Encrypt's other top sponsors are organizations themselves sponsored by Google). Let's Encrypt is not Google but absolutely is downstream from that money flow. Meanwhile Google itself is the stick. Google has used it's policy control over Chrome to effectively mandate using Let's Encrypt, by making using certificates…

> by making using certificates without it a nightmare You can still have "classic" certificates - if exchanging certificates is enough of a nightmare that you can't even do it once a year, it's a clear indicator your tech stack is brittle beyond belief and should be updated anyway. Meanwhile if you're using a modern cloud-based stack the provider (e.g. AWS ACM) does the work for you, and acme.sh makes it a breeze on…

Exchanging certificates once a year is... kinda ridiculous in almost every scenario except the one Google envisions when it dictates the Internet, yes. ACME support is making it into enterprise technology, but it'll probably be another five to seven years until it's common. Literally all businesses just have to suffer bull---- processes to cave to "Google felt like doing this, and Google is a monopoly".

And of course, don't worry, Google is ruining ad blocking browser extensions too, for the 70% of users who use their web browser. (This is one of the reasons defenses for Google's behavior so rarely holds... they are attacking users through so many different avenues at once, the justification only holds if you ignore everything else they're currently doing.)

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by CydeWeys »

TX81Z wrote: post #554
noSyncCloud wrote: post #505

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Absolutely nothing, but it's provocative. Gets the people going.

It means business decisions are based on who is most skillful at the corporate game, not what is best for users or the business.

What does "skillful at the corporate game" have to do specifically with Google Domains being canceled?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by CydeWeys »

TwoNineFive wrote: post #370
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've heard Porkbun has weird Chinese ownership and apparently most of their operations are in China.

You must be thinking of someone else. Porkbun is based out of Oregon. The founder is American.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by jfoster »

015a wrote: post #324
pcurve wrote: post #292

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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 don't think Keep will go away; its one of only 14 of Google's products that they classify as "Workspace/Enterprise"; alongside Gmail, Meet, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, AppsScript, CloudSearch, and Jamboard.

Wouldn't this same principle apply to Google Domains?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by hnfong »

sam0x17 wrote: post #167
smashah wrote: post #141

I literally dont understand why they did this. Their product was fine as is so didn't need more features, maintenance burden minimal. Isn't google domains just a UI for their GCP domains product? Will that get shut down? Will all my domains suddenly have a pointless premium on them? Cloudflare, please gain tld parity asap!

It wasn't a "google scale" product. That's how FANG thinks

Interesting how you left an "A" out..

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by Dalewyn »

xtracto wrote: post #545
Dalewyn wrote: post #185

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Windows today is unironically cement solid. Windows XP incorporated more user-centric elements from 9x, which culminated with ME, into NT. Windows 8 incorporated more mobile-centric elements from CE into NT. Windows is still rock solid at running programs from almost 30 years ago.

Shit, there are computers doing productive work and going strong on MSDOS 6.22 here in Mexico. Released in 1994, that makes it 30 year old software working without issues. Google software can only DREAM of doing that. Microsoft was doing software while Google people were still even not planned to be born.

Fun trivia of the day: MS-DOS 1 through 7.0 only reached EOL in 2001, and MS-DOS 7.1 and 8 which were shipped with Windows 9x only reached EOL in 2006.

If we consider the start year to be 1981, the year MS-DOS 1 came out, that is twenty years of official, commercial support, if we count 7.1 and 8 that's twenty five years.

If you need software you can count on to still be there a few decades down the line, if not more de facto, count on Microsoft to deliver.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by iudqnolq »

robertlagrant wrote: post #475
hnbad wrote: post #418

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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.

Endemic diseases are defined as diseases with relatively stable case numbers confined to a localized area. This obviously doesn't apply: COVID is not confined to a localized area.

Per the WHO[1] and the CDC[2] COVID is still a pandemic.

[1]: https://www.who.int/news/item/30-01-2023-statement-on-the-fo...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of...

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by nuker »

philistine wrote: post #195
nuker wrote: post #120

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> Is there a service that replaces Google Domains in simplicity and not pushing add-ons? AWS

This is the correct answer, except for simplicity. Jeez Louise is AWS convoluted.

Actually no, just buying and holding a domain is dead simple. Its what you do next is convoluted af :)
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