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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 jay_kyburz »

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!

Google seems to have bailed on Google Cloud. You should try and find something in the docs these days.

When I first started using GAE 10 years ago it really felt like somebody lovingly crafted a nice solution to a complex problem.

It's not that anymore.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by cobertos »

t-writescode wrote: post #205

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?

Registrars in general have many failure modes. Customer service nightmares (stakes being high if you lose an important domain, either through error or social engineering), malicious behavior (NetworkSolutions sniffing searches to buy domains[1], WhoIs privacy shell companies used to steal domain ownership, Unregistry increasing some of their new gTLDs by 500+%[2]), stability problems are all non-rare occurances.

It's hard to trust a new registrar when it's so easy to fuck over customers

[1]: They're mentioned in this article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running

[2]: Can't find the article anymore, it was like, 2015.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by owlninja »

breck wrote: post #237

Ugh, this makes me sad. Google Domains was hands down the simplest, most reliable, fastest domain service I ever used. I originally was on GoDaddy, then migrated everything to Namecheap, then migrated everything to Google Domains. I hope they don't change anything for as long as possible. I hate having to deal with DNS busy work. I have 97 domains with Google Domains. 20 of them are in active use. ~10 I manage for fa…

Ouch! I only have a handful of domains I've hung on to and I also went from GoDaddy to Namecheap, but I've been contemplating moving them to Google recently since I already use enough of their other services. Glad I waited?

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by WillPostForFood »

WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #238

I just bought my domain from Google weeks ago. I genuinely considered killedbygoogle.com while making my purchase, and I was like, "Surely domains.google isn't going anywhere, right? I mean, they even have their own TLD!" Apparently, I was so wrong. We'll have to see if Squarespace goes for any exorbitant price hikes.

I don't think there is any reason they won't charge the same as they do their own customers, $20 a year, So a 66.6% increase on Google's price. Very annoying as moving registrars is a hassle.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by cardy31 »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #241
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!

Google seems to have bailed on Google Cloud. You should try and find something in the docs these days. When I first started using GAE 10 years ago it really felt like somebody lovingly crafted a nice solution to a complex problem. It's not that anymore.

The company I work for is on GCP and I live in fear of seeing the “Google to shut down GCP by $now + ~2 years” headline.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by cobertos »

jonhohle wrote: post #217
cobertos wrote: post #214

What does this mean for Google's registry business? It's new gTLDs, some of which still haven't even launched

At least when it started Google was a reseller for Go Daddy. Did that ever change?

I hadn't heard about that. It always seemed like an all-Google affair for the registry services. They filed a lot of gTLD applications under the name "Charleston Road Registry"

https://icannwiki.org/Charleston_Road_Registry_Inc.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by awayto »

emmelaich wrote: post #223

Yet https://domains.google/ is has no mention of it and still invites people to move their domain to Google.... I suppose that's ok if the move to Squarespace goes smoothly.

Interestingly the support page has a banner notice.

https://support.google.com/domains

[edit] And a dedicated support topic https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670?sjid=1375...

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by scrollaway »

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…

Google Workspace has a reseller program. They likely mean that. I believe they already do it; I know Wix does — you can register your domain and with it get a mailbox, drive etc and all of it is managed by google workspace but admin is via wix.

Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by WillPostForFood »

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…

I appreciate they don't have a dozen stupid upsells on domains like GoDaddy. But $20 a year is a straight ripoff.
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