As a Google Domains customer, it would have been nice to learn about this from Google…
Fuck. I have a domain and workspace account associated with that domain through Google.
Goddammit.
and just like that, I moved a dozen domains and email (forwarding) to Cloudflare.
Ugh, that’s so annoying. What’s the point of making great products if you’re eventually just going to shut them down?
Maybe it’s easier for them to sell it instead of maintaining them?
Google has their hands in too many industries
I would imagine it also due to a flaw in how Google works. From my understanding, Google incentivizes adding new features, not supporting things. So, unless you’re on a team that is working on a core product, you won’t get far just maintaining and fixing bugs in a product that is “feature complete”.
I just a month ago moved a domain to google domains from namecheap (and regestered my own), because namecheeps’s user interface is awful by comparison. I am registering a domain, not as a keepsake, but to use it, why is DNS hidden away??? And more importantly, we needed to set up SVR records with a custom host, supported by DNS, needed my us, missing field in namecheap UI.
I’m glad I transferred over to cloudflare last renewal
So frustrated with Google. I moved all my stuff from Namecheap to Google as the interface was nice and I could share the access to the accounts with spouse and oldest kid.
Now I have to look around again and/or just go back to Namecheap.
Most registrars have a free forwarding option for a domain’s email (up to 100, e.g., email addresses). Are there any that allow forwarding of a registered domain email account to multiple other accounts (as opposed to just one)?
I’m glad I finished moving my domains out recently.
Crap. Their API for dynamic dns was nice.
Any suggestions for registrars which allow Dynamic DNS via an API?
Cloudflare has everything you could need to simplify dynamic DNS. The free plans actually cover most of my personal usage and of course paid version for anything else.
The selection of TLDs Cloudflare supports is weird. I checked them out earlier, and they list .dev as “coming soon” even though it was made publicly available in 2019. This makes Cloudflare a non-option for me as I have a handful of .dev domains I would need to transfer somewhere.
Oh. That sucks. I had a few non supported TLDs a few years ago and was happy to find them supported recently. I moved everything from Google to cloudflare last year. Maybe you can ping them @cloudflare@cloudflare.social on lemmy to check if they have an ETA for .dev. I just asked them that same question so will update you if they answer.
Thanks for the tip, I pinged them on Mastodon as well.
Will they ever stop creating new services only to shut them down a few years later?
No wonder people don’t trust them anymore.
Even though Apple is a trash company as well, they have one thing going for them, which is if they do something today, I am fairly confident it will be around going into the future, no matter what
I agree, I’m not particularly fond of Apple but they’re indeed reliable.
There are zero reasons to trust Google at all, so… I don’t know the “anymore” part…
Not because they shut down services but because they are Google. Part of the five eyes surveillance network, buddies with nsa and all those guys. Also will sell your private data to get rich, that’s their entire business idea.
I’ve always found it hilarious that they give people a web page to put their private searches in, and they do it!
I don’t like Zuckerberg but his opinion about people just randomly uploading anything personal to Facebook and trusting him (he called those people dumb fucks when he was younger)… It is kind of true.
Well they give people a web page to put their private searches in and then they perform a search and amongst peers has historically done it the best. That’s not a minor detail, it’s not particularly realistic to use the modern web without a search engine and they’re not secretive about the business model. That doesn’t make it particularly great, especially for privacy, but people are unlikely to pay for web searching.
Thats what frustrates me so much. People pay for their morning coffee, their ride to work, streaming TV subscriptions, Spotify and so on… but when it comes to searching the web, it should just be provided as a free service?
I know traditionally it was, but now we have no privacy and ads everywhere. Somehow people are OK with that I guess. But im really not…
