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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 jonhohle »

nyc_pizzadev wrote: post #219

So I have a Google Workspace attached to my domain. How will this work when the domain is managed by another company? When I move my domains off Squarespace, how will my Workspace work? I’m confused if they are saying my Workspace services will migrate to Squarespace too? > Squarespace will also provide billing and support services to Google Workspace customers I have to admit, I’m at a total loss, this makes zero se…

Probably not much differently. You may have to set DNS servers to Google’s or add a CNAME or MX records, but it’s likely not overly complicated.

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Post by eshnil »

crazygringo wrote: post #53

Can we hopefully avoid the worn trope of Google killing products in this thread? Because it's not being killed, it's being transferred to another company. (If this reporting is correct.) Which is something to celebrate , not criticize. With Reader/Stadia/etc., wouldn't users prefer that it had been transferred rather than killed?

They're transferring the user's assets, the domains, and killing the product (Google Domains).

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Post by sergiotapia »

kvathupo wrote: post #220
sergiotapia wrote: post #209

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.

Any good alternatives to Google Photos?

I need to find one quick. We really use this a lot and auto share all pics between my wife and Is phone. We also really enjoy the auto tagging face feature. That's a must.

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Post by cobertos »

bradleybuda wrote: post #203
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 fi…

DNS is not registrar services. Comparing Google Domains to Google Cloud DNS is like comparing apples and oranges. Though it's true you'll usually want both if you're working with domains OR DNS.

_Needing_ to interface with a 3rd party for a critical part of any web app or service feels like a step backward for Google's commitment to Cloud.

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Post by brycelarkin »

I purchase all my domains from AWS Route53 to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

I wonder what the rationale for doing this is? I just assumed cloud providers offered domain registration as a loss leader keep you in their ecosystem.

Can AWS offer support for “.dev” domains so I can transfer it there?

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Post by efficax »

grayrest wrote: post #216
eek2121 wrote: post #199

Me with 100+ domains with Google: chuckles I'm in danger! I should have known. I started a transition for most of my stuff to cloudflare anyway. I kind of figured this would come eventually.

I worked for Squarespace 2010-2012 and the focus from management was mainly on keeping customers happy. It's not like it's ad focused and there's a need to extract maximum value from the userbase. It's possible that's changed in the last decade but Anthony (CEO) was really into having a premium product and a quick glance at the about page shows that most of the senior leadership hasn't changed so I don't see why they…

going public and focusing on building a "platform" has definitely changed sqsp, although i wouldn't say they don't care about the customer experience anymore.

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Post by cobertos »

kvathupo wrote: post #220
sergiotapia wrote: post #209

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.

Any good alternatives to Google Photos?

It has been a while since I switched from Google Photos, but I've found EZ Gallery to be a good gallery replacement.

For backups, sync your camera roll to a computer/different service. Dropbox can do this, but there are third party apps like Autosync that can sync to a variety of services and protocols. Better than locking it all up in Google anyway.

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