Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” with Squarespace taking over the business and assets…
Everyone don’t trust Squarespace, they will make you pay $20 just to own the domain, google is only $12. Do not let your domain go to them.
I wonder how much this is going to break. I have a dynamic DNS set up with them, I can’t imagine it being a seamless transition.
What won’t Google kill??!?!?
Transferring domains on your own is a process…. Wonder how much harder it will be moving registration and user accounts, dns, Whois, name servers, etc. hopefully it’s easier for the users too and don’t get stuck in migration limbo.
Welp, time to move registrations over to Cloudflare. I’m not going to give my money to Squaspace for this.
Google try not to kill their services challenge(impossible)
Given the boom of .app and .dev gTLDs, this is a massive win for Squarespace if the registry side is included in the deal.
Bah! i actually paid to move a couple of mine TO google domains like 6 months ago to get them off of another site so they would be all in one place. So much for that. Its too bad, i liked Google DOmains. Free forwards to Gmails and easy to edit DNS records.
And my stubbornness to avoid google services pays off yet again. Quick question: Now that gandi is circling the shitter, which DNS provider do you recommend? Porkbun is nice but is us based. IXF or whatever the EU one people recommend is known to hand out private information upon request (not court order).
Why not cloudflare?
Are they closing Google Sites also? Why get rid of domains and keep sites?
Right as I was looking at them yesterday to buy a domain for a Lemmy instance. Glad I didn’t bother going through with it.
How long can they keep doing this before people stop trusting Google to support any new service? At some point it’s like, why bother engaging with their products if you know they have limited, unpredictable shelf life?
Funny thing is that that’s one of the reasons they axe many projects - it’s a viscous cycle
I was talking to a friend currently working for Waymo (an Alphabet subsidiary) about this issue and he mentioned that there’s a strong incentive to launch products because that can be used to lobby for promotions and raises, but very little incentive to support them long term unless it’s Gmail or one of the other flagships.
If everyone wants to make stuff and nobody wants to run or improve stuff, it makes sense that this would happen. It just seems like such a relatively easy issue to fix.
I’ve never managed a domain with square space without hosting. Wonder if I should transfer my domains to another registrar.
Bruh I just registered a domain with Google Domains 2 months ago.
I only got it done through Google Domains because I’ve heard the ease of setting it up and set it up and forget about it with Netlify (since I have no experience whatsoever with website administration procedures)… how does Squarespace compare? Should I look for other services?
Cloudflare is still the best domain registrar that I’ve worked with. Doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
Another one to the Google Graveyard. It’s crazy how even paid, profitable services can be tossed away by them. This has to be the widest reaching service they have deprecated. At least they are moving people over to SquareSpace, but still, this has to be a widely unpopular move here.
