• @remram@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As a Google Domains customer, it would have been nice to learn about this from Google…

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
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    81 year ago

    Will they ever stop creating new services only to shut them down a few years later?

    No wonder people don’t trust them anymore.

    • @mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      41 year ago

      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.

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
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        Also will sell your private data to get rich

        Every private company does that, it’s not that if you avoid Google you’re free of it.

        Unfortunately not everyone cares that much about privacy but definitely everyone cares about having a service that’s reliable in the long run, hence the “not anymore”.

      • @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        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.

        • @mrmanager@lemmy.today
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          11 year ago

          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…

    • @fourstepper@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      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

    • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      I have been using namecheap for years.

      Only thing that was a little annoying is i couldn’t turn on API access without adding (i think) $50 credit to my account.

      Also the API access locked down to a list of whitelist IP address. So i need manually add in the authorized IP address. Very annoying if your on a dynamic IP address. Every three months i need to manually go in and update it so my certificates can get renewed.

    • PumpkinOP
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      21 year ago

      I don’t use them myself as they don’t support the TLD I need, but I have heard good things about porkbun

  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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    I was going to opine about how “this is the problem with centralized cloud-based providers, at the drop of a hat they can be acquired and suddenly your content is owned by a company you wanted nothing to do with,” but then again, you chose Google as your domain provider. I think that’s your fault.

    I’d usually say the solution is to self host whenever a cloud provider has a shitshow like this, but in this case that’s not viable unless you want to go all the way up to becoming your own domain registrar or making your own top-level domain. Symptom that maybe the domain name system is broken, maybe we should campaign for it to be opened up for anyone to register their own domain, or least have a reputable co-op or community-owned domain registrar (maybe the open source/fediverse community can pool our funds to set up a nonprofit publicly owned registrar).

    Remember that the fediverse entirely runs on the domain name system as the domain of the instance is used to identify it, and all the security measures relating to inter-instance data sharing is relying on the security of the domains.

    • TWeaK
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      11 year ago

      You’re not wrong. lemmy.ml only points to one machine at one IP address.

      Granted, the fediverse means that posts here are copied elsewhere, but it’s only the initial posts, not the user accounts or edits.

  • @Tristar500@lemmy.ml
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    31 year ago

    “Once regulatory approvals are obtained and the transaction closes, you will become a customer of Squarespace, and your** domain will be owned** and, after a transition period, managed by Squarespace.”

    Squarespace will own the domains?

  • princessofcute
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    21 year ago

    Ugh, that’s so annoying. What’s the point of making great products if you’re eventually just going to shut them down?

    • @limeaide@lemmy.ml
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      01 year ago

      Maybe it’s easier for them to sell it instead of maintaining them?

      Google has their hands in too many industries

      • vendion
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        11 year ago

        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”.

  • @jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    Crap. Their API for dynamic dns was nice.

    Any suggestions for registrars which allow Dynamic DNS via an API?

  • @Joe_0237@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    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.

  • @niles@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    and just like that, I moved a dozen domains and email (forwarding) to Cloudflare.