Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets – Squarespace
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Squarespace Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, announced today it has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement with Google, whereby Squarespace will acquire the assets associated with the Google Domains busines

Google strikes again!

  • youtopiaEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Domains was one of the few Google products I still used. Free WHOIS, simple/clean interface, no pushy upsells, and it took advantage of Google’s scale.

    Also interested in recommended alternatives. I saw Porkbun mentioned a few times on HackerNews. Prefer to avoid Cloudflare.

    • Parsnip8904@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I have some experience with porkbun. Support is nice and pricing is pretty good. That’s about it. Their own DNS is just cloudflared without many features which I don’t mind because I don’t use it.

    • nik282000OPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have another domain with NameCheap, they seem ok and you can set up DDNS for home connections with dynamic IPs.

  • BluePhoenix01English
    4·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, this one affects where I was hosting my domains.

    Any recommendations on what to do? Should I try transferring now? Would you just wait it out and see what happens?

    • nik282000OPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I have another domain with NameCheap, they seem ok and I’ll probably transfer over to them. Better to make a little extra work for myself than wait for some Google/Squarspace to run me through a ringer.

      • BluePhoenix01English
        2·
        2 years ago

        Thank you, I’ll have to check them out. And yes, that’s what I worry of, there is a specific reason I chose a provider, and having another one chosen for me, when we don’t even know what level of UI/service/features they will provide is pretty annoying.

        • nik282000OPEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I transferred 2 domains to NameCheap and the whole process took less than 2 hrs from first click to done. I messed up my wildcard+DDNS but that wasn’t NameCheap’s fault and only took a few min to sort out.

  • ZoëMEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Please do add a tag to your post as stated on the sublemmy sidebar! Thank you. :)

    • nik282000OPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Oops, sorry. The sidebar doesn’t show by default on mobile.

  • pvqEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Does anybody know what will happen with the Gmail integration? I was able to create a wildcard alias for my domain and used it quite a bit to register to websites using websitename@mydomain.com, instead of the trick of using RFC 5233… Made dealing with spam and knowing which website leaked your email a breeze.

    Any alternatives you guys suggest?