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At least we now know that Google really can't commit to anything. What was even the point of restructuring into Alphabet if they're never going to do anything other than ads, search, videos, and email.
I am so pissed. F U Google. Now I’ve gotta transfer all my domains to Cloudflare. Ugh. How will this affect mx records? I’ve got my vanity domain acting as a front end to Google for work gmail and things?
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True, but then why even go into the business? Could they not model out that this would never be a giant revenue stream and customers all the grief.
Domain registration by itself isn’t a revenue stream if you’re charging base rates (which Google was doing). I think domain registration is to keep you in their cloud ecosystem.
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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!
Well, there's at least 2 weeks notice. Unlocking to prepare for a transfer...
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 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?
It says they’ll only honor existing prices for 12 months after the transaction closes. Any recommendations on where/how to transfer to get a) similar price, b) mail forwarding, and c) self-service subdomains? (Maybe the last two are standard—I have no idea since I’ve always used Google Domains)
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>Most of them still run specifically, how are those audio files bought from the M$ mu$ic store when they pulled the plug on the licensing server for their DRM? your claim of still running on modern Windows would be impressive if it is actually true, but saying to use a completely different OS is not something the vast majority of people not typically reading HN are going to do.
I mean, I'm still running Paint Shop Pro 5 and Winamp on Windows 11 like I'm still in the late 90s. Windows and Microsoft are the legendary backwards compatibility outlier in the software industry where essentially everyone else moves fast and breaks shit.