Google Domains SOLD!

But what happens to customers that have paid prepaid for their domain for like 5 years?

Namecheap

Does this include custom email with domains bought with other domain host

Just moved all of my Domains to my Cloudflare free account. HOWEVER....*VERY IMPORTANT* .... With a Cloudflare Free Account you can "NOT" use other Nameservers. You can only use Cloudflare's Nameservers. Their paid plans are very pricey. Otherwise thier Domain prices are very resonable. It was not too complicated to figure out the move.

Ya Willie, this really sucks man. I LOVE Google domains - all my domains are with Google right now. WordPress sent an email with an offer to transfer for FREE plus an additional year at no cost. Their rates also look very similar to Google's. Call me crazy but, since all my sites are WordPress sites, and they've been around forever now, I feel like this is the best option for me.

Hi there now that Squarespace has bought Google domains what will happen to all these basic Google websites?

Is there a need to transfer to another hosting provider ?

I'm sad. For my country Google Domains offered such low renewal prices that it was a blast for me. Now with the change of currency, I don't know what to expect.

You should have got your email from Google that it's moving to squarespace yesterday.

Why tf.........

What a shock and huge disappointment for both the Domains and workspace 🙈🙈

I just got an email today from Google, I wonder about Google sites

What about Google sites

Completely blindsided. It’s been around for so long and has such a positive rating. Definitely waiting for info on this as i have all of my domains hosted with them.

I know this is a month old video, but I moved all of my domains over to Cloudflare and the ones I couldn't, I moved them to Porkbun. The rest will expire and go away. I do not trust Square with anything. And furthermore, if they sell off workspace, I will no longer be a Google power user. I love my Workspace, but will refuse to use them and move operations if they ever sell it.

i transferred all my google domains to namecheap after this announcement. Squarespace prices are a ripoff

Name Cheap is a good option as well. I find some things I do not like with Cloudflare like support.

this is not good for Google. Next time nobody is going to trust google for any of these types of products.

Wow, going from $12 a year with a static site with Google, to a site that would cost $16/ month with SquareSpace. All I want are a few static pages for the price of a domain. Oh, and email forwarding to be able to create spam email addresses. But still stay with $12/year.

I was finally smart enough to switch to Google and it sold. womp fing womp.

Iuse 123-reg in the UK and there control panel is so easy to use.

People still use/trust Google for these sorts of services?

Google Domains betrayed us all.

Moved to cloudflare yesterday

I've been very happy with Cloudflare, however, I only have 4 domains currently.

DDNS and email setup with ProtonMail was very easy.

I just moved all of my domains (Google Workspace domains) over to Cloudflare, and it was seamless. I watched a video, and learned quickly, took a couple of days for all of them, going back and forth. What's even better is that collectively, it is MUCH cheaper!

Ever since they 'announced' this (15th June) my website is 'out of order'.... my clients can't reach me. I am going to change provider and also look at Google Workspace... Very disappointed in Google ...

What happens if there are multiple years left? For example, if i added 5 yearswhen i renewed.

I've moved to Porkbun. Good upfront pricing and simple, but adequate, interface.

Well... Frustrated to say the least. I will be looking at AWS and Cloudflare but need to check it out with some low level stuff before I move something bigger. So frustrating.

cloudflare cheaper and has so many features

I definitely didn't see this coming. I ended up moving about 20 domains over to dnsimple.

I use GoDaddy

Have multiple domains with Google. Very happy with the bang-for-the-buck. But very concerned about this. Selloffs are rarely positive for the consumer.

Boo. Wonder if/how bad the transition will be for people who purchased workspace with email services through the domain portal. Some things like billing updates don't currently work properly if you try to login to the workspace portal in this scenario.

what a surprise

plz keep us up to date on this =]

Not cool, Google! I just moved my domains from GoDaddy to Google Domains a few years ago and I don't want anything to do with SquareSpace.

Coincidentally I've been moving all my client domains to cloudflare... So i feel lucky with the timing. Cloudflare is pretty freaking excellent for many things. I also had some with Google domains for ddns. It works great. I'll have to evaluate if i can get similar functionally with cloudflare.

Really curious how this is going to affect Google Sites as well.

I already started moving domains to porkbun

I’m still pissed…,

This completely undermines any trust left in their cloud platform. If something as fundamental as this can be sold off, I would not touch any of their cloud services at this point. This is roughly equivalent to AWS selling route53 to webflow or wix.

Nobody can tell me what I can expect with my legacy free google workspace

UGH! Another entry in the journal of "Killed by Google". Cloudflare is about the only game left I trust. More, and more I am feeling the need to rid my life of Google. But I have so much tied to my primary domain with them, over the last 15yrs using Gsuite. I really appreciate any Synology related content to help in transitioning away from Google as well.

I use google cloud, firebase, workspace and domains, and I feel completely betrayed by this move.
I use Google services for its integration between them and tbh this is not cool.
Why would a cloud service provider get rid of an already established domain service, it makes no sense, this sends the message that something is not ok with its infrastructure and makes me wanna migrate completely before-hand before I am force to migrate because they suddenly decide to shut down another service.

Pretty surprising. My domains are in Route 53 (AWS) so I'm not directly affected (yay!)