SquareSpace dropping the ball. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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After almost a year of repeated emails stating the transition from Google Domains will have no effect on customers, no action is required; I just got this email:

Update Dynamic DNS records Hi there, As previously communicated, Squarespace has purchased all domain name registrations and related customer accounts from Google Domains. Customers are in the process of being moved to Squarespace Domains, but before we migrate your domain [redacted] we wanted to inform you that a feature you use, Dynamic DNS (DDNS), will not be supported by Squarespace.

So apparently SquareSpace will be entirely useless to me and I've got "as soon as 30 days" to move.

Got any suggestions for good registrars to migrate to?

(it's a .pw domain if that matters)

/edit. I'm a moron.

I already use cloudflare as my name server, Google/SquareSpace only handles the registration.

I'll be fine. Thanks for the help everyone!

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[-] nmhforlife@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah I don’t get it. How can a domain registrar not offer DDNS? I’m looking at Cloudflare.

[-] Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

Cloudflare offers an API, which can be used to update the records. It's as good as a DDNS.

[-] grahamsz@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's exactly what i do. I have an A record that points to my house and i update it every 4 hours from a script on my router. Been really happy with cloudflare, they have a weird restriction about using your own nameservers, but as long as you are happy with theirs then they seem to be great.

[-] dave@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

I’ve been using AWS R53 for this for ages and it works well. Not specifically recommending AWS but using dynamic updates rather than a DDNS service (or running your own name server which I’ve also done).

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Idk, but it seems really stupid.

Having not actually looked into it at all:

I'm wondering if they have an api for updating records instead of traditional DDNS. Not the same thing AFAIK.

Either way, I'm already using cloudflare as a nameserver so this shouldn't matter as much as I thought.

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