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

Time to migrate I guess.

  • remote_dev@programming.dev
    13·
    3 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?

    • b000urns@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      I just recently finished transferring a bunch of domains TOO Google Domain, now I’m going to have do it all again lol. Wondering what the closest alternative is…

  • darth@programming.dev
    9·
    3 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.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 years ago

    Ah fuck. The best value add of google domains is that you can set email aliases (including *@domain) and redirect them to your own adresses. Guess I’m gonna have to roll my own relay.

    • fryman@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      If you’re an iOS user, any non-free tier of icloud already includes something like 3-5 email domains. Not hard to set up. It’s a nice bonus most people aren’t aware of.

  • silas@programming.dev
    5·
    3 years ago

    Dang that’s sad to hear, I’ve gone with Google Domains mainly because it’s so easy to share access for billing, etc. with other Google Accounts like my clients’ for example

  • AArun@programming.dev
    3·
    3 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
      4·
      3 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.

    • God@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 years ago

      porkbun seems to have great ethics, namecheap banned me once for being venezuela and porkbun welcomed me and their support has always been very polite and efficient in comparison with the impersonal treatment u get at namecheap. i like porkbun.

      • ddnomad@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        Until their system shits itself and you need to contact support. Then it’s absolutely horrendous.

        Still use them though, they are fine.

          • ddnomad@infosec.pubEnglish
            3·
            3 years ago

            I mean, I still use them, mostly because I do not see a strong enough reason to transfer my domains, given how much of a pita that would be.

            I’ve heard good things about Gandi, but it’s not my first hand experience so wouldn’t vouch for that. GoDaddy looks fancy but I remember from a while ago they were really into upselling on bloody everything, which is annoying.

            So at the end of a day, NameCheap kinda works fine :)

  • jmk1ng@programming.dev
    2·
    3 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?

  • dan@startrek.website
    1·
    3 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.