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Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

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Re: Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

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Post by umurkontaci »

zippergz wrote: post #91
ewzimm wrote: post #75

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That's interesting. Do you know where the requirements are published? I've read language recently from at least one registrar specifically stating that private registration prevents transfers to other registrars. Maybe this was before these new requirements were published.

In my recent experience, private registration prevents transfers because you are unable to receive the email message that contains the code you need to complete the transfer. I am still able to transfer my domains, but I need to turn off private registration first, so the email is sent to my real email address. This seems like a silly problem, and one that the registrars cold solve if they wanted to, but obviously th…

I believe some of the registrars provide a rolling email address on your whois info, which forwards the mails to your inbox. But the address is changing at intervals, therefore if anybody scraped the address it won't be of use.

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Post by mtrpcic »

tamar wrote: post #142
jedc wrote: post #98

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I've been a beta-tester of Google Domains for months, and it's just such a nicer experience than GoDaddy/Namecheap. Particularly with GoDaddy, I feel like there's always a chance I'm going to click on the wrong thing and then get subscribed to some ridiculous service. With Google, it's a clean, transparent, USABLE interface. I'd encourage people to try it out with a domain and form your own views. As for me, I'm movi…

Hey jedc - Tamar from Namecheap here. Can you provide insights into the Namecheap experience? I hear the GD side. Would like to know what you mean from ours. As far as our dashboard, we're building a better user experience, so that's nothing to fret about. I bet you'd agree when it's live that the experience is far more stellar than anything you'd find anywhere else.

I think you just explained peoples problems in your own post. "we're building a better user experience, so that's nothing to fret about". People have the option of "good right now" or "good in the indefinite future", and the decision is pretty obvious. Not saying Namecheap is bad (I use them myself), but the crux of this argument is that GD has the right interface NOW, while Namecheap will have it EVENTUALLY.

Re: Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

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Post by mtrpcic »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #49
venomsnake wrote: post #8

Knowing first hand google support I will stick to namecheap ...

I like everything about namecheap, except the name. I hate having to mention their company name to a customer who I'm managing the domain for. It sounds like I'm using a discount service from the bottom of the barrel when that's really not how the company operates. It would be nice if I could refer to a parent company with a more appealing name.

Why not just say "your domain registrar" or "your domain provider" to clients to keep the name out, if it's an issue?

Re: Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

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Post by higherpurpose »

danyork wrote: post #118
tptacek wrote: post #112

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The USG controls .com, .net, and .org. The government of Libya controls .ly. DNSSEC puts cryptographic key material under the influence of the DNS. "No it doesn't" isn't a rebuttal to that.

But Thomas ... I still don't understand the attack that you say can be made against DNSSEC-signed domains. Here's what I see, if I have a .COM domain: 1. I sign my domains and generate a DS record. 2. I upload the DS record to my registrar who passes the DS record up to the .COM registry. Now, when someone does DNSSEC validation on my DNS records, they wind up doing this process: 1. Going through the DNS process to g…

> In a filing with the European Union, French authorities declared in an emergency procedure its intentions to block "at domain level" access to sites the French government deems to be in breach of its law.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-answer-to-terror-attack...

Welcome to the new world.

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Post by anigbrowl »

tamar wrote: post #143
jaimeyap wrote: post #22

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I believe when you add whois guard to NameCheap, it actually comes out a little more than Google Domains, which I think offers free private registration.

Not if you use a coupon code. Try WGSPECIAL. Oh, and if you renew for several years at a time, the cost per year goes down too. Disclosure: Namecheap employee

No offense to you or your firm, but fuck coupon codes. When I go to Trader Joe's for groceries, I work out what I want to eat and note the prices. When I make one of the occasional trips to Safeway I spend half my time trying to match up what I went there to buy with the particular coupon that's running this week or that my wife added to loyalty card, and more time attempting to decrypt my receipt after I get home to see if I succeeded.

Coupons are just a way of creating psychological anxiety about missing a good deal, an archetypal 'dark pattern'. That sort of thing actively drives people like me away from your business. I know I'm not a mainstream consumer, but IMHO neither is the average domain registrant.

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Post by adventured »

torbit wrote: post #97
Someone1234 wrote: post #71

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Funny you should mention that. At my previous employer I needed to buy some domains and our current registrar was simply horrifyingly terrible (like $30 per sub-domain, yes you read that right: sub-domain. Bad support. Payment issues. Their website had issues in general) so when they asked me for alternatives I gave them NameCheap, and the biggest sticking point was the name (and how it didn't sound professional). We…

godaddy sounds worse. They even sexualize their commercials.

It is fascinating that people look past that, it's far worse than Name+Cheap. I imagine it's due to the very large brand recognition they now possess.

When Google first launched and I tried referring friends to use it, as a superior search service to AltaVista et al., friends would give me a look of "what the hell?" due to the name. Back then it wasn't uncommon to see media stories referencing Google's childish / baby sounding name, and how it was a ridiculous name for a service, and that the logo made it come across even worse.

Re: Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

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Post by briHass »

Does anyone know if they support dynamic DNS on subdomains and is it RFC2136 compliant? For example, I have mydomain.com pointing to a standard server, but home.mydomain.com updated from pfSense to point to my dyn IP on namecheap.

As usual with Google, technical details are scant.

Re: Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

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Post by wbillingsley »

joeblau wrote: post #16

I've been using this for a few months now and it's been great. The cool thing is that they allow you to solve the problem of having domain emails pointing to your personal emails so for example blahblah@joeblau.com -> josephblaus@gmail.com. The only challenge with this is that I use Cloudflare as my CDN and Google's email redirects work if you use Google's nameservers.

The painful thing I've found with this is that it leaves myname@gmail.com as a valid email address. So there I am signing up for other services with myname@mydomain.com and meanwhile some typo-ridden fool in the US keeps signing up myname@gmail.com instead of theirname@gmail.com and I end up receiving their hotel receipts, iTunes receipts, etc.

Very few of those services have a good way of dealing with "No, that wasn't their email address they signed up with, it was an alias of mine". And while for some of these, I could presumably click the "forgot password" link and go into their account, I'm not sure that would be legitimate and wouldn't know what their correct email was to change it.

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Post by scrapcode »

kevinoconnor7 wrote: post #127
adrianlmm wrote: post #126

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>then Google would be cheaper than the other providers, as they sell it as an add-on Godaddy also sells this as an addon, actually, every domain seller does, I don't know what is so special about Google's offert.

It's included with Google. Thus if it's something you use (and most people do), then Google's pricing is very competitive for domains.

It has been free for the first year with Namecheap for as long as I can remember.
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