I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.

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We can’t even trust google to run a registrar!?

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I’m still amazed that they decided to do this, given how involved they are with this type of thing.

I had already moved to porkbun, but Google Sites was such an easy way to make a simple webpage with a domain.

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If we are more scrutiny of vertically oriented monopolies, it may not be worth it to Google owning a registrar along with its search business.

It is a lot easier divesting the registrar.

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If I don’t transfer mine, it will still exist, right? I will just need to manage it from Squarespace instead of google domains?

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Yes but also expect to pay more. IIRC they will honor google’s pricing for the first year but afterward you more likely than not have to pay more. And you might lose some features you use.

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How is it a money printing machine? They sell domains at cost based on ICANN fees. They don’t mark them up like other registrars, which is one of the main ways to make money in that business.

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Yeah I’ve transferred all but one of my domains already, want to start the transfer of the last one tonight.

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This is so fucking annoying. I specifically used Google Domains so I can have a trivial email forwarding to my Gmail without data exiting Google’s servers.

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I’m in the same boat you are, I had numerous domains (over a dozen) each with e-mail forwards to a single gmail account. I ended moving my domain registration to AWS Route 53 and pointing my DNS over to cloudflare. Cloudflare offers both DNS and e-mail forwarding for free, so I’m back in business. They also provide analytics on email forwarding that google lacked. not gonna miss google one bit.

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Right but now CloudFlare reads all the email. 🥲

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correct, and I’m aware that google has all this information as well. With the way e-mail gets routed, there’s always a 3rd party that can acquire some or all of the information contained in an e-mail.

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Have you got a good guide? I have about 8 domains with email 5 log-in’s for family. Really getting sick of google

ex legacy G Suite user from decades gone

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on the cloudflare side, you click on your domain from the home page and select the Email tab on the left and follow their instructions. on the gmail side, you don’t need to do anything beyond responding to cloudflares email confirmation unless you want to setup reply-to addresses for one or more of your forwarded accounts. To do that, follow this: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

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