How is this evil? Google is selling off a portion of their business that is probably not profitable for them. Evil would be ruining the service for the sake of profits. Would shutting it down be less evil?
If you don't like Squarespace, then aren't they the evil ones in this scenario?
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.
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?
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.
This is bad news, I appreciated the easy integration with Google Cloud Platform and other Google services via Google Domains. It was the one place I felt like buying a domain name was safe.
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.
I've been a happy customer since one of the go daddy migrations years ago but is it just me or has the app and mobile web interface gotten a lot worse recently? The place stays true to its name for the most part to me though. Gotten some good deals on some dumb domains.
I was scrolling through these comments to see if anyone said anything about Cloudflare. Glad to see there's a few positives already posted. Happy with them overall?
I've been relying more and more on cloudflare for their services but most of the free ones I'm using are starting to make me question their privacies and the potential for them to be a single point of failure.
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?
My google domain is registered through enom, wonder why the wouldn't transfer it there? Also they say google domains launched in 2014, but I've definitely had mine since 2010.
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.
This is a weird move, I guess not worth the small amount they make. The only provider I've never had issues with so far is Namecheap. I see a lot of people recommending Cloud flare here, so I may try them out for my ones on Google.
I use namecheap. They're mostly fine, but they do not make it easy to support free SSL certs, and their shared hosting is not a particularly good deal, but it's still cheap enough for one site that I haven't investigated thoroughly. I haven't changed my registrar, but I did send my DNS over to Cloudflare due to the SSL issue.
I use namecheap for the registration and Cloudflare for the DNS. Pretty easy setup and support as well. The SSL is great as I get a free SSL wildcard and can use that for other origin and edge certificates as well.
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).
Thanks! Would have been nice to get an email from Google about it. I have a website on Squarespace (recently moved over from Wix). Since them people are getting my money anyway, should I just let them have ny domain too or move to something else? The comments here like Cloudflare (need to check prices, I currently pay 12 bucks a year).