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Google -> SquareSpace? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've only ever had my domain registered via Google Domains (~7 years), mostly because it was cheap+convenient, and google already had my billing info. Google has however sold its domain registration services to SquareSpace and will soon be transitioning customers there.

Not upset to be removing one more bit of google from my life, but I don't know much about SquareSpace and I'm not sure if I should just go with the transition to them or perhaps move to a different registrar... If I was to move, where too?

Curious what others think about the situation and company.

Are you a Google domains customer? What's your plan? Why?

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[–] rjc@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I switched all my donations to cloudflare. Tried out pork bun and did like it but cloudflare is so good. I do hate in principal that they force you to use their dns, but in practice I want to use them for DNS anyhow. Their ZeroTrust tunnel is pretty slick too.

[–] dnvtr@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not following what do you mean when you say they force you to use their DNS. How does their DNS service relate to having a domain registered with them?

[–] somedude@lemmy.ninja 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With Cloudflare as the registrar, you can’t change the name server for the root domain. It locks you in to Cloudflare’s NS.

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

You might be able to manually create NS records for @, but I've never tried it.