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SquareSpace dropping the ball. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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After almost a year of repeated emails stating the transition from Google Domains will have no effect on customers, no action is required; I just got this email:

Update Dynamic DNS records Hi there, As previously communicated, Squarespace has purchased all domain name registrations and related customer accounts from Google Domains. Customers are in the process of being moved to Squarespace Domains, but before we migrate your domain [redacted] we wanted to inform you that a feature you use, Dynamic DNS (DDNS), will not be supported by Squarespace.

So apparently SquareSpace will be entirely useless to me and I've got "as soon as 30 days" to move.

Got any suggestions for good registrars to migrate to?

(it's a .pw domain if that matters)

/edit. I'm a moron.

I already use cloudflare as my name server, Google/SquareSpace only handles the registration.

I'll be fine. Thanks for the help everyone!

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[–] something15525@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://porkbun.com/ is what I'm planning on switching to!

[–] azl@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just want to clarify - after looking at Porkbun's DNS offerings, it does not appear they do DDNS either. Is that correct? So they are not any better than SquareSpace for that service. Porkbun does have an API interface.

It looks like Namecheap has DDNS support (at least I get valid-looking results when I search for that on their website).

I haven't changed registrars in 10+ years. I am in the same boat re. Google -> SquareSpace. Is DDNS deprecated in favor of API's across the board? It looks more complicated to set up.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

You don't actually need DDNS. If your provider has an API you can update your addresses using the API. https://kb.porkbun.com/article/190-getting-started-with-the-porkbun-api

[–] darkfarmer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

I use porkbun and ddclient (https://ddclient.net/). Not sure if that helps you or not but there it is

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pro tip: If you use Porkbun, don’t leave your domain’s authoritative DNS with Porkbun nameservers.

Over the year or so I had my stuff configured this way, on at least one occasion (that I know about.. I was still setting up my observability stack during this year), the servers were flapping hard for over a day, causing my records to magically vanish from existence intermittently.

I tried contacting them every way I could, hell I even descended into the quagmire of Twitter and created an account so I could tweet at them.. and got silence.

Pretty disappointing. I ended up moving all my DNS to AWS Route 53 after a few hours of pulling out my hair. They did eventually respond to my email like a day later, after I’d already moved everything over.

But idk maybe I’m wrong expecting an indie domain registrar to have super high availability on their nameservers.. oh well