Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets [News]

3 years ago by nik282000 to c/selfhost

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!

youtopia 5 points 3 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.

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Parsnip8904 3 points 3 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.

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BluePhoenix01 3 points 3 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?

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nik282000 1 point 3 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.

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BluePhoenix01 2 points 3 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.

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nik282000 2 points 3 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.

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Zoe8338 2 points 3 years ago

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

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pvq 1 point 3 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?

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