Looks like google domains is no more.
Looks like google domains is no more.
Knock on wood, I have not used them in quite a while.
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They really made the zip domain then dipped out
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made the zip domain then
dzipped outftfy
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I am really thinking of switching to Microsoft for all my cloud needs, including email, photos and cloud storage and online office webapps.
I can't trust that company no more.
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Just, be prepared for things to randomly not work a few times a day.
As a developer, interacting with their APIs can be quite painful.... as, things are frequently moving around, or temporarily unavailable.
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There are others.
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After that Ms master key disaster, that's a bold strategy. ¯(ツ)/¯
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That's like switching from cholera to plague.
Start easily, subscribe to these communities:
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I've personally switched to Nextcloud and I'm quite happy with it.
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You could try Proton, but I am not aware if they are offering any online office web apps.
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It's only a matter of time before you the same regarding microsoft. Their services always get worse as time progresses.
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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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I’ve been using Namecheap for years and have been happy with it. Why do you prefer Cloudflare? Is it for easier integration with Cloudflare services? How’s the pricing compared to Namecheap?
Sorry for the interrogation lol
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Cloudflare sells domains at cost. So yes, cheaper than any other registrar (including NameCheap and Porkbun), except maybe those who sell domains at a loss as a promo to rope you in and then kill you on the renewals.
Integration into their stack is a nice side effect, but really inconsequential. You can have your domains registered with any registrar and have your DNS hosted by any DNS hosting provider. Heck, you can run your own DNS servers if you want to.
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Cloudflare could be the cheapest (without cross-financing) because they advertise their pricing as they don't add any additional fees to the ICANN fees. I never actually fact checked this though.
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One benefit of using Cloudflare DNS is that you can place a CDN on the domain apex. So if you'd like to have https://domain.com instead of https://www.domain.com then they can make that happen.
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I really want to use porkbun but I don't want to write scripts to integrate a custom name server api into ddclient. (I know some people have written their own wrappers but they've yet to make it upstream.) Namecheap it is then.
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Njalla is mine. I like the privacy protections they offer.
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WHOIS privacy? Porkbun does that for free for all TLDs that support it.
I don’t think I fully understand how what they offer isn’t “ownership by proxy”. I suppose they promise not to release your info if police ask for it? On the other hand, they technically own the domains you register through them, so if they get repossessed (e.g. through legal bankruptcy proceedings), whoever their new owner is, will presumably also own your domains…
I’m probably not seeing something here, but this all sounds sketchy to me.
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Hopefully Google used promo code "Killedbygoogle" to get 15% more in this transaction
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Damn what a sweet boy. I meant bot, not boy, but I keep it.
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Good boy
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Should label them as initialism, acronym, etc.
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Good bot
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I want to move to CloudFlare too, but I have a couple of
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Yup, I have been using cloudflare for a few years now, and, no complaints at all. Completely painless.
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And they don't charge for a fucking email forwarding. Fuck you, domain.com!
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How do I do this? I currently pay for a google domain at a cheap rate of like $13 a year. I want to keep it cheap and make sure I can just point it to my box.
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Cloudflare doesn't support every TLD's, but they don't have any markup on top of the ICANN fees that every register must pay, so they will probably be one of the cheapest. I use Cloudflare myself for DNS, Tunnels and anti-bot measures, but my main domain is not registered with them because it's included in my web hosting plan.
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What's different about this announcement from the one they made 2 months ago?
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This one they emailed to people with slightly more detail. You could barely find any official information about this from Google after the last announcement, so it’s good they’re telling people now. Very annoying that I’m being forced into square space if I don’t transfer out before then though.
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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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For Europe and specifically if you need European ccTLD's, inwx.de and netim.com have the largest selection and good prices.
You can see other European registrars on this page but check if they support all the TLDs you need and the pricing, sometimes they have an oddly expensive price for one of them.
Oh and a note about Gandi because it's listed as "cheap" there, they're currently jacking up their domain prices across the board. Until now they used to be sort of expensive, after this they'll be the most expensive by 75-100% than the others.
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Why wait? When you move they just extend it by a year.
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+1 for PorkBun, I've never had a bad experience with it.
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I didn't even wait for expiration. I went ahead and moved all of mine into Cloudflare last night.
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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 use Namecheap as my registrar, then split the domain between Adobe for the site (through their CC portfolio builder), and Proton for email. I migrated off Gsuite a while ago, but haven't had any problems since doing so.
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How has email deliverability been for you using Proton with a custom domain? I’m trying to move off of Google for everything but I’m still on Gmail for my personal email and a few custom domains. I’d love to move to Proton but have heard of problems with email going to spam or never being delivered but not sure if that only applies to their domains.
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Thank you namecheap looks like the best choice for me so far. I'm also looking at a local one called host papa. I may need to export my email history and figure out exactly what my needs are in terms of space. Proton might be a good option there as well if I can keep it at 1GB.
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I would recommend cloudflare.
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I second cloudflare. When they announced that squarespace bought Google domains a couple months ago I immediately switched over to cloudflare, no issues so far (plus additional features are a plus)
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Netim.com includes a 1 GB email address and a website with 250 MB and SSL with any domain.
If you want more email features you can delegate your MX records to Migadu.com, $20/year for unlimited mailboxes, domains, aliases etc. with 5 GB. The send/receive limits are soft limits, they don't block emails if you go over. If you constantly and grossly go over your tier they ask you to consider going to the next one up but occasional misses are ok.
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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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They can be very predatory
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Seems like more of a lateral shift than a downgrade
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My problem with squarespace is that 10 years ago I used to visit a few forums run on their servers, and every time I hit ESC in Firefox to stop animated gifs or to make a page stop loading/redirecting, it would navigate me to the CMS login page for the site owner.
Is this a problem today? No, I mostly browser on a tablet without a keyboard, I have no idea if they still do this.
Am I going to give them any money for this? Nope, the only thing I know about squarespace is that they used to intercept a browser shortcut to stop loading a page instead navigate away from the current page.
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Good. The less Google does the better the internet will be.
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Are CloudFlare, Amazon or Microsoft any better? Google at least take security (if not privacy) very seriously.
In general it seems bad to have any huge profit-driven organisation exercising significant control over open standards, but I do think that Google is lesser than many of the other evils.
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It's all big tech. I try to pick smaller companies myself.
It's only a matter of time before cloudflare becomes arrogant enough to be user hostile also.
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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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It's already there: https://killedbygoogle.com
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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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Not a huge deal, you can always transfer it.
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Username checks out
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Ahh crap.
What's the best no nonsense alternative?
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Cloudflare is just that. It supports most domains except for premium .dev (for now) from google. Registrar costs are at cost and no markup. Lots of options, no pressure to do anything beyond free.
Next option is Namecheap, but they’ve had issues lately.
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I'll vouch for cloud flare. Its hands down my favorite registrar I have used.
The ABSOLUTE, HANDS DOWN worst one you can possibly ever pick, would be GoDaddy. Don't. Just Don't. Don't even search for a domain there.... They have been caught sniping up domains after you search for them.. Absolute scum.
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What's the problem with Namecheap? I've been with them since GoDaddy got on the shit list, but I'm not against moving again.
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except for premium .dev
WHYY ;-;
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Probably not Google Cloud Domains, I'm in the middle of a transition to GCP, and this is total overkill, while at the same time not having the convenience I was hoping to find. I've got to deploy a whole custom cloud function to replace the Synthetic DNS record for my dynamic DNS.
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Hover has been pretty good
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I've heard really good things about Hover, that's probably where I'm going to go once I get close to renwal
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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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I was undecided between Google Domains and Cloudflare a few years ago.
\ I’m happy that I chose them over Google, no headaches now.
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One more for the Google graveyard. Abandon all hope ye who enter here
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Typical of Google to shut down yet another service
I've full on stopped accepting new Google products, only exception being the pixel phone, but I'll root that if they decide to drop support.
I work in development and am proud to say I have convinced 3 companies now to steer clear of GCP because of their track record.
I bet someone has made a list.
googles
Yup.
The first item on the field is a search field. The "all" category has 288 entries.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Not to mention that the cpanels, documentation, and APIs for Google Cloud look like they were written by alien robots to be consumed by alien robots. I've never seen any other platform or docs as confusing and pointlessly convoluted as gcloud docs.
Hope they didn't instead pick the security shitshow over at Azure.