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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Typical of Google to shut down yet another service

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They really made the zip domain then dipped out

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

made the zip domain then ~~d~~zipped out

ftfy

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (13 children)

My order of preference for domain registrars is:

  1. Cloudflare (doesn’t support all TLDs, unfortunately)
  2. Porkbun (does have wide TLD support, and has no-bullshit pricing, albeit higher than Cloudflare)
  3. Namecheap. They’re cheap and Canadian… no other reason than just a backup to have.
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I’ve been using Namecheap for years and have been happy with it. Why do you prefer Cloudflare? Is it for easier integration with Cloudflare services? How’s the pricing compared to Namecheap?

Sorry for the interrogation lol

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

Hopefully Google used promo code "Killedbygoogle" to get 15% more in this transaction

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CF CloudFlare
DNS Domain Name Service/System
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
k8s Kubernetes container management package

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I see this bot as useful for new people trying to get into the community. Don't downvote, but provide corrections to whom it may concern. This is a really cool resource.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Damn what a sweet boy. I meant bot, not boy, but I keep it.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I already move my domains to cloudfare! Great decision.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I want to move to CloudFlare too, but I have a couple of .com.au domains that CloudFlare doesn't support.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yup, I have been using cloudflare for a few years now, and, no complaints at all. Completely painless.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's different about this announcement from the one they made 2 months ago?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This one they emailed to people with slightly more detail. You could barely find any official information about this from Google after the last announcement, so it’s good they’re telling people now. Very annoying that I’m being forced into square space if I don’t transfer out before then though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well crap

I pretty much only have my domain for my email adress. It's also a back up plan should my career take another nose dive and I need a portfolio. Gsuite was good for all that.

I'm not quite in the loop with best options for that kinda thing. And I been using the email for contract work for over a decade now. So I don't want to give that up. Would cloudflare be good for that as well?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I use Namecheap as my registrar, then split the domain between Adobe for the site (through their CC portfolio builder), and Proton for email. I migrated off Gsuite a while ago, but haven't had any problems since doing so.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I cuurently use one of three registrars: Namecheap, Cloudflare, or Porkbun. Porkbun is my favorite and I will move my domains to them as they expire.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

For Europe and specifically if you need European ccTLD's, inwx.de and netim.com have the largest selection and good prices.

You can see other European registrars on this page but check if they support all the TLDs you need and the pricing, sometimes they have an oddly expensive price for one of them.

Oh and a note about Gandi because it's listed as "cheap" there, they're currently jacking up their domain prices across the board. Until now they used to be sort of expensive, after this they'll be the most expensive by 75-100% than the others.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Killed by google as usual.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop on this, do people have a problem with squarespace?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They can be very predatory

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good. The less Google does the better the internet will be.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Happened a while back. I had my domain on it and as soon as I saw the email I got a refund on my domain.

If I wanted to be on squarespace, I would've joined squarespace.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh no.. I just bought a domain for my friend from there, only a few months ago.

I should've used namesilo or porkbun instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Not a huge deal, you can always transfer it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Username checks out

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