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Re: Google Domains

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Post by ohashi »

mattzito wrote: post #123
joeframbach wrote: post #45

Serious question: What happens in three years when Google decides to "sunset" this service like Wave, Labs, Reader, Buzz, Code Search, Knol, etc? Their target audience doesn't know how to work with registrars, which puts them in the worst possible situation when Google Domains is dropped. Will they help their users transition to other registrars?

It's been years since I worked in the domain name space, but as I recall vaguely, part of the registrar accreditation agreement is that you have provisions to transition your customer domain names to another registrar in the event you stop being a registrar, voluntarily or involuntarily. The way this has worked in the past (again iirc) with other companies is that the registrar wholesale migrated their names to anoth…

You are correct. Look up RegisterFly for an example of a registrar going under. GoDaddy took over their customers.

Re: Google Domains

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Post by rbanffy »

joeframbach wrote: post #45

Serious question: What happens in three years when Google decides to "sunset" this service like Wave, Labs, Reader, Buzz, Code Search, Knol, etc? Their target audience doesn't know how to work with registrars, which puts them in the worst possible situation when Google Domains is dropped. Will they help their users transition to other registrars?

Not sure what the terms for Domains are, but for App Engine they will give you at least one year, IIRC. They introduced the policy when they started charging for the platform.

Re: Google Domains

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Post by anonova »

davidcollantes wrote: post #158
anonova wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gandi ( https://www.gandi.net/ ) is quite well-known for having free private domain registration.

Could you provide the exact link for this? I have looked to no avail.

It's an included service when you use them to manage your domain names.

https://www.gandi.net/domain/whois/

http://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/private-registration

http://wiki.gandi.net/en/contacts/privatewhois

From the home page, it's at the bottom of the green box under "Every domain name includes".

Re: Google Domains

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Post by tambourine_man »

I'm glad they are more focused on their core competences and are not distracted by side projects.

I'm also glad to see the amount of work that went on developing this site, white text over white background, for example, is super readable. Sweating the details indeed.

http://i.imgur.com/rcTAu9l.jpg

Re: Google Domains

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Post by yeukhon »

JeremyBanks wrote: post #83
dublinben wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google discontinued (presumably paid) radio and television ads a few months after starting each. This does seem entirely like a whimsical side project for Google. If you want a reliable domain registrar, find one that doesn't do anything else.

Google is not just a registrar, but a registry, with 19 TLDs that they will operate: https://www.google.com/registry/ They're in the domain business now, and I don't think they're going to drop out any time soon.

I see the first popular attempt to register if .NEWS is available is hacker.news.

Re: Google Domains

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Post by opendais »

bennyg wrote: post #154
newaccountfool wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people at the business may only work during business hours, but people purchase items and interact with websites 24/7 meaning that if you get a text saying your domain is down at 03:00, then by 03:02 you want to be in touch with someone figuring out why.

It'd be awesome if there was an automation service for this. I'm sure tons of people would gladly pay to say "fuck waking up, it's already being handled."

I'm pretty sure that is PagerDuty, OpsGenie, and VictorOps

Re: Google Domains

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Post by thisisdallas »

vowelless wrote: post #60

> Create up to 100 email aliases with your domain, such as help@your_company.com or sales@your_company.com, and have them forwarded to existing email accounts, like you@gmail.com. This way, your email is a professional reflection of your business. So there are no actual email boxes included?

It's probably similar to Office 365 and the email alias option. With Office 365 you can set up a number of email aliases that can all be directed to one inbox. The downside is that you can't send from those alias. You will always only have one "sending" email address, unless of course you pay for another user inbox.

Re: Google Domains

#170

Post by opendais »

moe wrote: post #155
opendais wrote: post #118

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I get calls at 3am for outages. Remind me what business hours are again? Plenty of domain & DNS providers offer 24/7 x 365 support.

And... you think your call is going to make an outage get resolved quicker, or what do you want to call them for? The callcenter agent will type your inquiry into the exact same ticket system that your email would have ended up in.

It isn't always a total outage. Sometimes it is just someone fat fingered something.
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