technology @hexbear.net Owl [he/him] @hexbear.net 1y ago

Google sells their domain name business to Squarespace

newsroom.squarespace.com Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets — The Official Squarespace Newsroom

We are excited to announce that Squarespace has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement with Google, whereby Squarespace will acquire the assets associated with the Google Domains business, which will be winding down following a transition period. This purchase includes approximately 10 m

I was using this shit, now it's going to be surprise transferred to a company that wants me to use their product instead of hosting things I control.

Fucking Google.

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google a whole 10 minutes after trying to come up with a new product line/service

:vivian-shrug: meh, i'm bored. fuck this
You can transfer domain names to other registrars. I think you can just transfer them before they go to squarespace.
- Yeah I'm going to, but that's still a bunch of annoying busywork I didn't have to do yesterday.
  
  Just transferred my domain to Alibaba Cloud 😎
  
  its got a way crappier UI lmao
  
  but Tencent Cloud is more expensive