They probably wanted to add Google domains to their ever growing product graveyard so I guess selling it is better than forcing everyone to fix their DNS.
Sucks though. Was really easy to use and for the most part just worked.
Sorry guys, it’s because I just bought another domain today. This really sucks, Google Domains was easy to use and cheap.
How does smaller company buy bigger companies stuff! That’s not the normal flow
It happens all the time. Bigger companies often decide that one of their products is not profitable enough or doesn’t fit their overall strategy and then the options are to either close the service (which is what Google is famous for), spin it off as a new business if it’s profitable enough, or try to see if someone is willing to buy that business unit (which is what happened to most of IBM for example).
Off to cloudflare I go, was already planned but I’ve been lazy about it.
I just did it last night had no idea lol
Lol, they’re 100% going to lose me as a customer. The only reason I used them as a registrar was because it was quick and easy to integrate into Google Workspaces and manage everything like DNS from one site. This is honestly a pretty annoying move.
Same! Guess I’m moving to cloudflare for my registrar. IIRC it’s cheaper too
Just looked at their offering, it looks promising. They also have email forwarding with catch-all which will be useful for people relying on that with Google domains
Welp just transfered my domains and it was super easy. I’m already using Tutanota for my email and clouflare for DNS so I don’t have to change anything it seems. Just went to the transfer website, unlocked the domains on Google, got a transfer pin, gave it to cloudflare, paid, verified the transfer via emails from google, and done
