Google Domains is "winding down following a transition period," with Squarespace taking over the business and assets...

Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” with Squarespace taking over the business and assets…

  • atocci@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    I wonder how much this is going to break. I have a dynamic DNS set up with them, I can’t imagine it being a seamless transition.

  • decavolt@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Welp, time to move registrations over to Cloudflare. I’m not going to give my money to Squaspace for this.

    • cjerrington@kbin.socialOP
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      3 years ago

      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.

  • strepto@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Bruh.

    Anyone know if squarespace is likely to jack up the price? I quite like my domain and was planning on spinning up a kbin instance with it

    • scarcer@kbin.social
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      3 years ago

      You can transfer your domain if you act fast, it takes a few days. You may have to pay again on the new registrar though.

      • cjerrington@kbin.socialOP
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        3 years ago

        You pay for the transfer basically and keep the current registration time + 1 year. But ICANN only allows transfers within certain time windows of age of the domain, before/after registration, and such as well… but could be easier now to get out of Google and locked into a mess later.

  • Lasairiona@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    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).

  • saplingtree@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    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).

  • ApathyMoose@readit.buzz
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • Tempiz@sh.itjust.works
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    3 years ago

    Cloudflare is still the best domain registrar that I’ve worked with. Doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

  • arkcom@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    I just re-read the article and it actually says your domain will be owned by squarespace. I hope not.

    and your domain will be owned and, after a transition period, managed by Squarespace.

  • VulcanSphere@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Given the boom of .app and .dev gTLDs, this is a massive win for Squarespace if the registry side is included in the deal.

  • Briskfall@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    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?

      • lost@kbin.social
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        3 years ago

        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.

        • arkcom@kbin.social
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          3 years ago

          Yes, I use them for my dns even for my google domain. The interface is good and they support dynamic ip addresses, too.
          I’m sure like a lot of these giant enterprise providers, us little people don’t really cost too much and we have the chance to recommend them at work.

    • atmur@kbin.social
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      3 years ago

      I’ve been happy with Cloudflare’s registrar service, plus it keeps all my DNS stuff in one place.

      • can@kbin.social
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        3 years ago

        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.

      • jwr1@kbin.social
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        3 years ago

        Does name cheap have free email aliases, like Google Domains? That’s one of the main features I use.

        I also use the website forwarding (redirecting), but that’s not as important for me.

        Edit: it looks like both are supported by name cheap, so that’s probably what I’ll migrate to.

  • IniNew@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    I’ve never managed a domain with square space without hosting. Wonder if I should transfer my domains to another registrar.

  • SuperSloth@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    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.