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• @gurupanguji.bsky.social @gurupanguji.bsky.social on bluesky

  That's a bummer.  Looks like I am in the market for another domain seller.  Squarespace hasn't been the best steward of domain purchasing.

• @killedbygoogle @killedbygoogle on x

  I am absolutely shocked. lmao https://9to5google.com/...

• @zacharykimball Zachary Kimball on x

  Of the large tech cos, Google is the worst managed by a long shot. No coherent strategy, no consistent product delivery. Just a bunch of siloed bureaucrats in short-lived competition for the next promotion, wasting away the profits from the ads business. https://twitter.com/...

• @the_aiju Emily on x

  at this point i dont understand, why would you build anything that relies on a google service that isnt search or gmail to continue existing lol such a weird precedent to set as a company https://twitter.com/...

• @zackkanter Zack Kanter on x

  AWS pioneered ephemeral cloud services with Lambda, a serverless compute platform that goes away when you don't need it. GCP takes this a step further by making the service offering itself ephemeral, whether you need it or not. It's the New Way To Cloud™. https://twitter.com/... …

• @squarespace @squarespace on x

  We're excited to expand our global domains business through a definitive asset purchase agreement with Google to acquire the assets behind the Google Domains business. Read more here: https://newsroom.squarespace.com/ [image]

• @katie_roof Katie Roof on x

  Google Domains is winding down and Alphabet sold these assets to Squarespace for $180m, company confirms our scoop https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @dcuthbert Daniel Cuthbert on x

  Cheese and rice @google, is there anything you kill off? An annoyed domains user https://twitter.com/...

• @freezydorito Laura on x

  it's cool that google+ lasted just enough to make the pseudonym system at youtube a byzantine labyrinth of nonsense that discord could only dream of and now g domains lasted enough to make https://website.zip/ a valid tld. megamind-ass move https://twitter.com/...

• @aotearoa_ben @aotearoa_ben on x

  I used to think it was just a fun joke that Google shutting stuff down caused people to rely on them less. But mother fucker. Literally just started using Google Domains. “The service exited beta in 2022.” https://twitter.com/...

• @internetofshit @internetofshit on x

  that's what you get for using a Google product 🫡 https://twitter.com/...

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Also: as a Google Domains customer, why am hearing about this news from Squarespace's press release? Google (my provider, and where I'm a customer) has not told me this is happening. I assume same with the other 10M impacted domains' owners.

• @mitsuhiko Armin Ronacher on x

  Google does it again. Every day I feel more and more that not picking Google products is the way to go. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @kvlly Kelly Vaughn on x

  This season of Killed by Google sucks https://twitter.com/...

• @jgamblin Jerry Gamblin on x

  When people were complaining about Google Domains they meant .zip and .mov not this. https://twitter.com/...

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Wow: Google IS killing Google Domains; selling it to Squarespace. This is 10 million domains sold. Millions of customers like me learn again (and again!) that you cannot trust Google to keep their own products alive. Show me another vendor that throws away customers like this... …

• @jorilallo Jori Lallo on x

  Extremely disappointed by Google Domains sell-off. Great, no-frills product with top notch security thanks to Google accounts. I have no desire to be a Squarespace customer. Time for @cloudflare to increase TLD coverage /cc @eastdakota https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @domainnamewire @domainnamewire on x

  Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena noted the company is a registrar with millions of domains under management. Under its own creds, has about 850k .com domains as of 3 months ago according to ICANN reports.

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  so long, google domains 🫡 https://twitter.com/... [image]

• @varunkrish Varun Krishnan on x

  Glad that I have not bought single domain from Google Domains! Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace for About $180 Million https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology

• @rstephens Robert Stephens on x

  Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Google Domains was the cleanest and best UX to acquire and manage domains. https://www.techmeme.com/...

• @paytobreed Jim Bob on x

  like Google's spectrum bidding, their domains play was largely a misdirect. Google had commoditized domain names that there is no real point to managing them. https://www.prnewswire.com/...

• @quinnypig @quinnypig on x

  I'm eagerly awaiting the Very Serious Takes that @GoogleCloud isn't a risky bet. If my cloud provider tells me that for the domain registration part I need to go talk to Squarespace, I'm picking a different cloud because I don't want to get fired. https://twitter.com/...

• @rustybrick Barry Schwartz on x

  Goodbye Google Domains https://twitter.com/...

• @seyitaylor @seyitaylor on x

  everyone is mad at Google while I continue to be amazed at these amazing businesses like Squarespace and Mailchimp that are built on “commodities” https://twitter.com/...

• @peer_rich @peer_rich on x

  At this point, signing up for a “niche” Google product is a higher risk than signing up for a small company https://twitter.com/...

• @peer_rich @peer_rich on x

  i have 0% hope that the transition will be flawless. oh dear, so many web agencies or “cousins of store owners” now have to migrate hundreds if not thousands of domains so many domains were bought years ago in advance, people may have lost access https://twitter.com/...

• @johncodezzz John McBride on x

  Wow. Insane. I wonder if Google domains offering .zip top level domains last month was a last ditch effort to salvage the business and inject it with cash flow. Best (unlikely) case scenario is squarespace shuts down .zip TLDs and refunds everyone who bought one. https://twitter.…

• @adamrackis Adam Rackis on x

  At this point why would anyone use Google for anything other than search 🤡 https://twitter.com/...

• @martymadrid @martymadrid on x

  Oh damn! I feel for anyone that's been migrating all of their domains to Google Domains ... I definitely considered it over the years, but never pulled the trigger https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @thdxr Dax on x

  google is the maybe the worst company i've ever seen they have tried so many times to launch businesses with more money and reach than anyone and cannot turn a profit it's been obvious for a while their reputation is BS but at this point everyone should be able to see it https://…

• @davidmihm David Mihm on x

  Incredible. Google appears to be existing the domains business. https://domains.squarespace.com/ Though I'm a happy Squarespace customer, I'm sad, as Google Domains was/is probably the company's all-time best product. Great UI, blazing fast, logically organized.

• @peter @peter on x

  Google domains is a fantastic product, so of course Alphabet is killing it off, like they do for nearly every elegant product they own. 🤦‍♂️ So much broken user trust over the years 😞 https://twitter.com/...

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  Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace

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  Squarespace acquires Google Domains