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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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[–] Empyreus@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Switched to cloudflare. I was already planning on it but I was waiting for my renewal. This forced my hang.

[–] SirMaple_@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I moved all my domains to Porkbun for registrar and desec.io for DNS. I like to keep the 2 separate.

[–] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Switched to porkbun as well.

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What makes you keep them separate?

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If DNS is separate, the registrar doesn't matter and I can move to a cheaper one whenever I want. It's a lot more time consuming if I have to move all my DNS records as well.

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

Makes sense. Then why desec.io for your DNS?

[–] sokian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

deSEC runs 100% on free and open-source software

And

deSEC is organized as a non-profit organization based in Berlin. We make sure that privacy is not compromised by business interest.

Cloudflare can't make those claims.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m planning to switch to Cloudflare Registrar. I already use some of their other services so it makes sense, and their pricing is pretty great.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I believe they still sell their domains at cost.

[–] 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.

[–] somebodyknows@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

They said first year with no price changes, so no rush. Let's see their proposal.

[–] lung@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Well, I'm pretty pissed, and it feels like Google, probably the biggest Internet company, has really gone insane. I mean, a web company stops selling domains? Why? It makes total sense with their Cloud offerings and other stuff like managed Gmail/apps

Anyway I have like a dozen domains there so I'm just going to hang in for the rollover and hopefully I don't need to do anything. Ultimately, I use this stuff like 2ce a year so it doesn't really matter who holds the domains for me

[–] Alchemy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I am moving over to Cloudflare slowly.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 1 points 2 years ago

I had some OVH domains, as in they end in OVH. So have moved all my Google domains to OVH, I can even still do wild card let's encryp with ovh.