Time to migrate I guess.

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    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?

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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      Pretty sure Cloudflare offers this if you use their DNS. Both bits are free and you can use them, or any other registrar with it.

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      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.

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

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      I really like Porkbun, and they tend to be one of the cheapest registrars. They have US-based phone support too. Phone support is becoming less common with cheaper registrars.

      You can use tld-list.com to compare prices.

      Pretty much all good registrars support free WHOIS privacy (especially if you’re in Europe as redacting personal data in WHOIS is basically mandated by GDPR), and DNSSEC support is also widespread.

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

        Still use them though, they are fine.

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          Not sure if it’s still the case, but they used to be a reseller for a lot of TLDs (I think via eNom), rather than directly selling the domains themselves. It caused issues with slow support since you’d open a ticket with them, then they’d have to open a ticket with their upstream provider and relay any replies. It was a pain.

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            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 :)

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            @sisyphean @ddnomad

            I don’t know if it’s better, but I use iwantmyname and porkbun for domains.

            Neither of them have shutdown and sold to squarespace out of the blue, so that’s a plus.

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      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.

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        Gandi was bought out recently. Increasing prices and removing lots of features soon…

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      @AArun @Mustafaalbazy I have no loyalty to any of these companies. Whatever is the cheapest and has a decent reputation. I use porkbun, cheap and though I had to call customer service to work out the payment, getting through to a human was easy enough.

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    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?

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    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.