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Time to migrate I guess.

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[-] jmk1ng@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Google shutting down Google Domains is honestly baffling.

If domains aren't a pure profit center for a cloud hosting company then what is? How does selling the business to Squarespace (?!?!?!) of all companies not do serious brand damage to Google in this space?

[-] felixthehat@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I can only imagine it's because of the burden of google having to do tech support, not really their forte

[-] G0ldenSp00n@lemmy.jacaranda.club 1 points 2 years ago

This is so annoying, can Google not do anything? Why do they keep killing products like this.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I imagine this move in particular may be related to the recent antitrust movement against them in the EU.

[-] doowkcin@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Ah man, this sucks. Google Domains was really good too.

[-] dan@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

I'd love to hear where people are going. I'm still trying to decide. Squarespace looks like it might be expensive when I have to renew.

I've also been using Google Domains email forwarding, and I'm trying to find a good alternative.

[-] Mustafaalbazy@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

name.com is a good choice to consider, but they are more expensive than google domains.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

This is really upsetting. Google Domains was so streamlined and simple.

[-] darth@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

As usual, Google doesn't disappoint by fucking things up for everyone. I've been meaning to migrate off of GMail for a while, this is yet another signal to do so.

[-] remote_dev@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Google holding true on it's promise to sunset any decent product that doesn't immediately grant them the same success as their ad business, utter shit news.

I guess I might as well migrate ahead of time so the sites I run don't shit the bed when google inevitably screws up the migration process. Anyone have experience with squarespace domain hosting?

[-] AArun@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Any recommendations on who to use going forward Or do you think it will be the same after squarespace takes over?

[-] jmk1ng@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I've been using a combo of Namecheap and Gandi.net depending on which TLDs each support.

I've been planning on consolidating everything on Google Domains... but my laziness seems almost prescient now.

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