I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.
I’m so annoyed. Squarespace is the worst
I thought that was godaddy?
Can you elaborate? Worried about my services after the switch.
Their UX sucks
The Google Graveyard grows ever larger. Nearly at 300 now.
I still miss igoogle at times
To be slightly fair a decent number of those are redundant or were successfully merged into other projects while others were clearly very experimental in nature.
This product was also sold, not deleted. So to be a bit pedantic, it doesn’t belong there. People are acting like this has died entirely or they aren’t able to transfer their domains. It’s not the end of the world.
But I guess people can feel good posting “Don’t be evil I guess” over and over again (as has been posted in all the threads about this numerous times) or being all snooty about how they’ve “warned people forever” not to use any Google service ever.
The thing is, we chose to do business with Google. Telling me that I’m now doing business with SquareSpace may or may not be something I like. Regardless, I don’t appreciate Google yet again deciding that they don’t want to be in some particular business.
This was a trip back in time, seeing things like Meebo and Picasa that G purchased and killed off. 😕
That’s just the nature of corporate pirates, they loot and plunder what they can use and integrate into their own products then scuttle the rest
Most often not even taking the things that made the plundered product great in the first place, unfortunately.
Most times companies do acquisitions just because they want to get a patent, or just hire the dev team with specific skills. The product for them was worthless from the beginning,
Yeah, this is basically their business model/modus operandi
Lots of top-quality dumb news this week
If you made yourself dépendant on a Google product then that’s the risk you assumed. They can and will kill off products at a whim, history has made that very evident.
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How is it a money printing machine? They sell domains at cost based on ICANN fees. They don’t mark them up like other registrars, which is one of the main ways to make money in that business.
Hold up - can anyone else read many of the comments in this thread and notice that many seem to be bots, all repeating comments by other users but slightly changed as if by AI and automated?
The commentary in this thread reads as very unnatural. (I agree with the skepticism of Google, it’s not that, it’s the syntax of the thread).
Another Google service destined for the glue factory.
Yah now I am not trusting anything Google. This isn’t the same as others as it has been around what 9 years and was turning somewhat of a profit as they charge more then cloudflare and supposedly they are selling at cost.
Who’s a good registrar for .ca? Cloudflare doesn’t support it :(
hover.com is pretty nice, I’ve used them for a few years
Joker.com are an awesome registrar that I’ve used for years.
I have used Joker since the 90s for personal domains.
I had recently move my work domains from Dreamhost to Google since we already had business GSuite. Having it all in one place was convenient. Now I dont know where I will move them since I dont really care for Squarespace.
This is so fucking annoying. I specifically used Google Domains so I can have a trivial email forwarding to my Gmail without data exiting Google’s servers.
I’m in the same boat you are, I had numerous domains (over a dozen) each with e-mail forwards to a single gmail account. I ended moving my domain registration to AWS Route 53 and pointing my DNS over to cloudflare. Cloudflare offers both DNS and e-mail forwarding for free, so I’m back in business. They also provide analytics on email forwarding that google lacked. not gonna miss google one bit.
Have you got a good guide? I have about 8 domains with email 5 log-in’s for family. Really getting sick of google
ex legacy G Suite user from decades gone
on the cloudflare side, you click on your domain from the home page and select the Email tab on the left and follow their instructions. on the gmail side, you don’t need to do anything beyond responding to cloudflares email confirmation unless you want to setup reply-to addresses for one or more of your forwarded accounts. To do that, follow this: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en
Right but now CloudFlare reads all the email. 🥲
correct, and I’m aware that google has all this information as well. With the way e-mail gets routed, there’s always a 3rd party that can acquire some or all of the information contained in an e-mail.
Based on my experience in many privacy roles covering US, EU, UK and other countries, the sale of a company will likely be covered in Google’s privacy notice and is not considered a sale of personal data considering customer’s personal data will immediately be covered by the purchasing company’s privacy notice.
Funny, because if I decided to go into business with Google by renting a service from them, that honestly shouldn’t mean that I automatically decided to go into business with some other corporation at Google’s whim.
But hey, capitalism really cares about personal autonomy. It’s not like it just exploits our labor and treats us like commodities or anything. /s
Really? It’s not uncommon for me to have a service through one company and have that company be sold to another. I can think of at least two banks that I was a customer of when this happened. Similarly I’m sure it’s happened with some utilities, and maybe a telco.
- In this case, the service is disconnected from your data. With Google et al., your data is the product.
- Closing or some other form of taking your banking account hostage until you give them permission is not exactly something that should ever be possible to happen. This kind of service needs to be heavily regulated. Much unlike Facebook or some other social media stuff.
Who said anything about “common/uncommon”? Are you really enough of a subservient piece of shit to think that the way capitalism does things dictates the way they should be?
I think what they mean to say is, me big you small
Google: the grim reaper of online services
This is so frustrating, I knew that I should never trust google but i still fell for the slickness and how easy it is to administrate domains on google domains so I’ve been buying all my domains through them… I really really gotta learn to stop trusting google and basically never use their products.
Wow, was pretty heavily bombarded by domains ads just a few weeks ago!
Yeah I’ve transferred all but one of my domains already, want to start the transfer of the last one tonight.
I transferred my domains out as soon as I heard of the purchase a few days ago. It’s a shame but not a surprise given Google’s desire to kill anything that gets good.
I don’t think I have any infrastructure that runs on Google anymore with that done, which is a shame as I like their products before they are shut down
