Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets – Squarespace
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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@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.

    • Parsnip8904@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • BluePhoenix01@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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?

    • nik282000@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year 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.

      • BluePhoenix01@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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.

        • nik282000@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year 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.