Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace • Hacker News Board

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by UnlockedSecrets » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:56 AM UTC

55555 wrote: post #194

wyclif wrote: post #191

Google simply has no incentive to serve the customer who uses them for domain management. They make so much money from ads that they're far more concerned about their ad revenue than they are about money from paying customers.

Domain parking is valuable ad space. Surprised they are selling.

Would domain parking even be 1 millionth of what advertising google serves???

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by throwaway810 » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:56 AM UTC

foolswisdom wrote: post #193

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, let me get this straight... you moved from Cloudflare, because you were worried about the scale of their control of the Internet... and you chose to migrate to... Google, the company that definitively actually controls the Internet, via monopoly-scale shares of search, email, web browsing, and has authored nearly every new Internet protocol specification in the last ten years to subtly make their ads harder to…

Cloudflare is known for controlling infra, while those Google examples are end user applications. Just saying.

GCP? Google Domains? Google Workspaces? Gmail? QUIC?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by bradleybuda » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:56 AM UTC

vineyardmike wrote: post #183

I guess we know Google isn’t serious about Google Cloud any longer… I feel like this product is table stakes for a cloud. Does this mark a new transition for google leadership? Will google start to sell their unwanted businesses instead of just killing them?

Google's enterprise-grade DNS is "Google Cloud DNS" [1]. It's not going anywhere. Google Domains is a consumer-grade product, in the sense that it is lacking most of the features (access control, bulk management) that a large company needs, though it was not lacking in stability / availability. And you could easily hook Google Domains up to Google Workspace to light up email for a small business.

Feels like a good fit for Squarespace - lots of overlap with their target market.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/dns

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by DLA » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:58 AM UTC

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!

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by t-writescode » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:58 AM UTC

To the various people saying they’ll transfer their domains away, why is this bad that they transfer to another registrar company? Is there something concerning about Squarespace?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by armatav » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:58 AM UTC

Holy awful

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by cobertos » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 3:00 AM UTC

UnlockedSecrets wrote: post #201

55555 wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Domain parking is valuable ad space. Surprised they are selling.

Would domain parking even be 1 millionth of what advertising google serves???

Maybe not in its current form (disregarding the hyperbole).

I'm more surprised that given Google's scale, they couldn't do it in a way that makes them much more money, but perhaps at the expense of ethics/user experience

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by w-ll » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 3:00 AM UTC

I noticed my Chrome Canary install uBlock Origin has stopped working this last week. Any one else see the same?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by sergiotapia » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 3:03 AM UTC

This may be the last straw for me trusting Google. I say this as a paying Google photos user and owner of a pixel 6.

If they kill THIS nothing is off the table.

Time to find alternatives and even switch phones. No more all-in-ones platforms.

For a solid alternative I recommend Porkbun. They do just domains and nothing else, with a clean no bullshit UI.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 3:03 AM UTC

foolswisdom wrote: post #193

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, let me get this straight... you moved from Cloudflare, because you were worried about the scale of their control of the Internet... and you chose to migrate to... Google, the company that definitively actually controls the Internet, via monopoly-scale shares of search, email, web browsing, and has authored nearly every new Internet protocol specification in the last ten years to subtly make their ads harder to…

Cloudflare is known for controlling infra, while those Google examples are end user applications. Just saying.

The protocols Google is redefining to be user hostile are a layer below even infrastructure. The very nature of HTTP and DNS are being rewritten to serve Google's business interests.