This is a surprising move by Google, one would think there would be no benefit them selling the domains business?
Squarespace hopes to convert some of these people into customers of its site building and other tools
No thanks
Squarespace will honor Google Domains renewal prices for current customers for at least 12 months
This quote has me slightly worried, especially considering some Google domains already cost almost triple of a regular ‘.com’
They probably wanted to add Google domains to their ever growing product graveyard so I guess selling it is better than forcing everyone to fix their DNS.
Sucks though. Was really easy to use and for the most part just worked.
Lol, they’re 100% going to lose me as a customer. The only reason I used them as a registrar was because it was quick and easy to integrate into Google Workspaces and manage everything like DNS from one site. This is honestly a pretty annoying move.
Same! Guess I’m moving to cloudflare for my registrar. IIRC it’s cheaper too
Just looked at their offering, it looks promising. They also have email forwarding with catch-all which will be useful for people relying on that with Google domains
Welp just transfered my domains and it was super easy. I’m already using Tutanota for my email and clouflair for DNS so I don’t have to change anything it seems. Just went to the transfer website, unlocked the domains on Google, got a transfer pin, gave it to cloudflare, paid, verified the transfer via emails from google, and done
What the heck? that’s an unexpected one.
Guess I’ll be looking at migrating my domains within the next 12 months, I don’t really like the way squarespace runs their business. I also sincerely hope this doesn’t affect gmail aliasing in any way, I rely on that as my main email address.
Sorry guys, it’s because I just bought another domain today. This really sucks, Google Domains was easy to use and cheap.
