1 yr. ago • 98%

Looks like google domains is no more.

Knock on wood, I have not used them in quite a while.

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Typical of Google to shut down yet another service

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They really made the zip domain then dipped out

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https://killedbygoogle.com/

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My order of preference for domain registrars is:

Cloudflare (doesn’t support all TLDs, unfortunately)

Porkbun (does have wide TLD support, and has no-bullshit pricing, albeit higher than Cloudflare)

Namecheap. They’re cheap and Canadian… no other reason than just a backup to have.
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Hopefully Google used promo code "Killedbygoogle" to get 15% more in this transaction

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters

CF CloudFlare

DNS Domain Name Service/System

SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption

k8s Kubernetes container management package

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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Permanently Deleted

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What's different about this announcement from the one they made 2 months ago?

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Well crap

I pretty much only have my domain for my email adress. It's also a back up plan should my career take another nose dive and I need a portfolio. Gsuite was good for all that.

I'm not quite in the loop with best options for that kinda thing. And I been using the email for contract work for over a decade now. So I don't want to give that up. Would cloudflare be good for that as well?

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I cuurently use one of three registrars: Namecheap, Cloudflare, or Porkbun. Porkbun is my favorite and I will move my domains to them as they expire.

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Killed by google as usual.

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I'm out of the loop on this, do people have a problem with squarespace?

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Good. The less Google does the better the internet will be.

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Happened a while back. I had my domain on it and as soon as I saw the email I got a refund on my domain.

If I wanted to be on squarespace, I would've joined squarespace.

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Another one for the list

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Oh no.. I just bought a domain for my friend from there, only a few months ago.

I should've used namesilo or porkbun instead.

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Username checks out

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Ahh crap.

What's the best no nonsense alternative?

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I had a few domains there. I migrated them to Cloudflare as soon as I saw the news that this was coming.

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One more for the Google graveyard. Abandon all hope ye who enter here

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