Technology

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.

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.

Aw damn.. I really like how bare basic their interface is and how they're not constantly trying to upsell me shit I don't need. Anyone have any good recommendations for alternatives that fit this bill? Google is just giving me the worst possible options.

Off to cloudflare I go, was already planned but I've been lazy about it.

I'm happy with Porkbun as my domains' registrar. 🙅🏼‍♀️ Cool for Squarespace, I guess.

Wow that’s interesting. For me as a consumer that would negate the value of the registrar - I would probably be wrong, but as a consumer maybe would have assumed that domains bought there have some easier integration into the Google ecosystem, with some convenience benefit even if small.

Will they still? I don’t use Squarespace (but a lot of people must be, for them to have that much pull, damn) but would they still have such benefit? I guess the benefit is Squarespace integration.

This includes Google’s special TLDs they own and administer? Article didn’t say.

The fuck

That's one way to kill a product! 😂

My guess is that they tried to monetise it but couldn't figure out a good way. So made some good money off it.

How does smaller company buy bigger companies stuff! That’s not the normal flow

Well fuck me I guess. I only used this due to the ease of access and nice UI.

Huh, that's weird. You would think that business had pretty good returns, given that registrars have famously high markup when selling domains.