Imho a decision that doesn’t make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers.

Although I would never subscribe to something from Google for my business, then when they eventually change mind and kill my product, i have to migrate in an hurry. I’ve been hurted too many times

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    No Google service can last. I’ve come to the point where I no longer trust any new product they put out.

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      Yeah, I need to switch to another authenticator app because I’m not sure I even trust that at this point.

      Edit: love this community, say I’m looking to switch and I get a plethora of suggestions within the hour lol

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        Same here. The only problem with protonmail is that there is almost no option to use standard clients. For mail you have protonmail bridge which is pain in the ass but better than nothing. Calendar and storage is practically useless if you are not able to integrate it to the standard phone app or desktop client.
        But I understand that this is the price for encryption.

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    And I just purchased a domain from them. GoDaddy is not great and while Squarespace is a fine company, no worse than Google at least, more consolidation of domain providers doesn’t seem like a good thing.

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      I’ve been happy with Cloudflare’s registrar service. It’s pretty barebones and missing some TLDs, so the rest of my domains live at Namecheap.

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        I’ve also been happy with Cloudflare. It’s not a company without problems, but they’ve been reliable.

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    This is actually good for the google domain’s customers. Previously, if your google account somehow got banned, either legitimately or by mistake, you’ll lose access to your domain account as well.

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    Been using Google Domains for almost 4 years now, pretty sad to see it go away just like that without warning.

    Service was amazing and DNS propagation was always ultra fast with them. I hope I won’t lose my Google Workspace account with custom email though

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      So it’s even worse? They still have to maintain the infrastructure but at the same time have less customers

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        Knowing Google, they likely had all that infrastructure duplicated, not reused between GCP and Google Domains.

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        Every business has overhead and infrastructure is usually the least of that overhead. They probably had lots of people working in that division and if it’s just a redundancy at this point might as well sell it off and get some cash out of the deal.

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    Yeah, imagine that. CEO makes unpopular decision, alienates loads of users, and triggers mass migration. Couldn’t happen. /s

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      Sorry, this was a reply to someone elsewhere, but testing out Mlem and it ended up as a top level comment. Wonder if this one will too…

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    Does this mean Squarespace could revoke Google TLD rights from other registrars? Like take back registered .dev domains or refuse to renew them?

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      They could, but it seems a great way to alienate all the customers, and start a massive migration that will crash the company to the ground

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    I wonder how the transition will affect existing users. I paid upfront for like 2-3 more years, so that better not go away. The Google Domains page still doesn’t show any notice, weirdly.