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Tarık | Mikro Yazılımcı

Google domains are closing!

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Hi hunters, Google domains that many of us keep domains have been sold to another company. It was the cheapest place to buy domains, simple and effective, but again, Google didn't surprise us. My question is where are you planning to move your domains to?

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Loknath saha
Maybe another trick form googles side!!!
Simon Peter Damian
Launching soon!
Not sure where I'll be moving all my domains to but perhaps namecheap
Tarık | Mikro Yazılımcı
@theterminalguy From what I've seen many people recommend cloudflare or namecheap. I think I'll move it to one of them.
Matthias Mayer
@theterminalguy Check out Dynadot or Porkbun, much cleaner interface IMHO and you can see at one glance what settings/nameservers/forwarding each domain has. Also Namecheap is expensive on renewals whereas Dynadot has bulk pricing from $500 yearly or pre-charge. ;)
LFphant
Check out Cloudflare Registrar as a possible replacement! They offer no-markup pricing for domains. https://www.cloudflare.com/produ...
Simon
@lfphant Wow...thanks for the Cloudflare heads up....must move there!
Simon Peter Damian
Launching soon!
Another addition to https://killedbygoogle.com/ this is sad. Makes you wonder if Google will be in business 20 years from now.
Max Yamp
I'm not shocked, since I didn't even know that was a thing lol!
Imran Razak
I just never understood why AWS did make a user friendly domain service they have route 53 which is great btw but the fact is AWS is less user friendly than Google cloud. So imagine the possibility’s if they made it easier to buy a domain, then do cloud storage etc. it’s just a little too complicated compared to google. But AWS rocks.
Scott Robertson
@imran_razak "I just never understood why AWS did not make a user friendly service" Fixed that for you ha
Suraj Anjaana
No need to move your domain at any other place ..... as i listen foursquare is takeover google domain (I am not sure).
It does sound crazy that Google will generate a business that generates $10M+ in revenue. But the fact is, this is a small amount compared to their other business units. Secondarily, there is a good chance anything that generates less than $100M for them is unprofitable by just considering how much they pay and the number of people that needs to focus on projects like these.
Sia
So sad. By far the best domain service IMO, especially combined with Firebase. My default replacement will be Cloudflare.
Namrata Arya
You don’t need to move your domains away as such. Squarespace will be taking over existing customers of Google domains and knowing both, I’m expecting the transition to be quite seamless
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@namrata_arya They say that they will keep the prices for 12 months, but I don't think it will be like google domains.
Stephen Walker
This is sad news if it's real.
Muritala Yusuf Oluwaseyi
So sad. I never used them anyway 🤷‍♂️🤞
Ruslan.D
hmm .. is there need for domain's name nowdays ? simple page can be hosted on github
Johan Steneros
Namecheap