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No, this is not the reason. You would have much more likely chance being kicked by the registrar/card not accepted/country ban/forgot password/domain hacked/for

No, this is not the reason. You would have much more likely chance being kicked by the registrar/card not accepted/country ban/forgot password/domain hacked/forgetting to renew and myriad of other reason than medium/google forgetting to renew their domain. This event is extremely unlikely.

TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
Your probably right. If 1+ billion internet users had their own domain names, we'd never hear the end of the Never use your own domain for anything ever horror stories.
- arkitaip 6y ago
  Or there might be a very robust infrastructure in place to prevent that from happening because there is now a multi-billion dollar market that companies want to serve.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Well I assume the comment is aimed at HN people not everyone in the world.
syshum 6y ago
Yes because google never kills off services... Never ohh wait https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- badRNG 6y ago
  It says AngularJS is killed off. That doesn't sound right... can someone fill me in?
  - Veen 6y ago
    Angular 1, not Angular 2 or more accurately, AngularJS was killed off and superseded by Angular.
  - buzzy_hacker 6y ago
    This isn’t a great example, it’s succeeded by “Angular”, v2 of AngularJS.
  - chillax 6y ago
    See: https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status Looks like it will get security patches through parts of next year. Angular, the successor to AngularJS is still alive and kicking.
  - parheric 6y ago
    As mentioned... it's Angular "1" and it's planned for July 2021 when LTS ends. https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status
    - badRNG 6y ago
      Thanks for clearing that up! This feels like it probably doesn't belong on this site. We don't say Google "killed" Android (Nougat), it's just an old EOL version. I've not used Angular, so maybe there are some salient differences I'm not appreciating.
      - deleted 6y ago
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      - pc86 6y ago
        The differences between AngularJS and Angular are roughly at the same level as the differences between Angular and React or Angular and jQuery.
        mcv 6y ago
        Even so, it's not exactly comparable to killing a service. If you really want to continue using Angular 1, you can. You can even fork it and keep it up to date yourself. That's completely different from abandoning a proprietary service.
      - square_usual 6y ago
        Lots of people don't like Angular-non-js, since it makes a lot of breaking changes and, among other things, switches to Typescript. AngularJS going EOL is effectively equal to it dying.
  - syshum 6y ago
    Angular, a typescript based framework is different from AngularJS a javascript based framework even though that have the same root name Google killed AngularJS.
  - prathiks 6y ago
    I tweeted the site owner he refused to remove it. According to him its angular js is killed
paulcole 6y ago
Medium going out of business seems inevitable.
iso1631 6y ago
There's pros and cons. I had a 4 letter .com back in the late 90s, but I was on holiday and my card expired - the hosting company emailed me, but clearly I didn't get it, so they didn't renew, and "ename technology" have been squatting it for 20 years.
- frandroid 6y ago
  I always have two cards on file with my registrar, but this year I had to cancel one card and the other one expired. Thankfully I was on top of my emails but I came within a month of losing my domains, which all kind of renew around the same time. It's frustrating to have to worry about this every once in a while.
  - nacs 6y ago
    Then renew 2 years at a time and then set a reminder to extend the renewal every year? That way you have a full year of leeway.
willcipriano 6y ago
You can petition ICANN if you lost a domain that you paid for. As long as you are the rightful owner it will be returned to you. Keep a active credit card on file with your registrar and keep a credit with them as well. All the horror stories I see are cases where someone stops paying. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en
- pc86 6y ago
  > As long as you are the rightful owner it will be returned to you. As long you can prove you are the rightful owner. Sometimes that's much easier said than done, especially to a particular burden of proof they might require to pull the domain away from someone actively using it.
  - treeman79 6y ago
    Was running a multi hour deploy. Only minor features, so low risk. Everything broke with our biggest client. After a massive scramble it turned out our clients certificate had expired, in middle of the deploy. So our system could no longer talk to them. Whoops
- sct202 6y ago
  It's going to be a lot easier for Google to do that to get blogspot.in back versus if I were to do it.
ignoramous 6y ago
> You would have much more likely chance being kicked by the registrar/card not accepted/country ban/forgot password/domain hacked/forgetting to renew and myriad of other reasons... Folks underestimate how easily this can happen and how very painful the entire process can be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597025
badsectoracula 6y ago
You aren't using your own domain because Google may forget to renew their domain, you are using your own domain so you are not relying on Google to make your content available. If you are afraid that your registrar may kick you out, you should also be afraid that Google may kick you out too - which actually has a higher chance to happen than losing your own domain (assuming you are paying for it). Personally after losing my blog when Posterous shut down i decided i do not want to bother with 3rd party blog services anymore.
swiley 6y ago
I have a lot more faith in me maintaining my personal domain name than google maintaining whatever service. I also get evicted if I don’t pay rent on time. Paying recurring fees so services remain available is part of being a functional person.

TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago

Your probably right. If 1+ billion internet users had their own domain names, we'd never hear the end of the Never use your own domain for anything ever horror stories.

arkitaip 6y ago
Or there might be a very robust infrastructure in place to prevent that from happening because there is now a multi-billion dollar market that companies want to serve.
quickthrower2 6y ago
Well I assume the comment is aimed at HN people not everyone in the world.

syshum 6y ago

Yes because google never kills off services... Never ohh wait https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/

badRNG 6y ago
It says AngularJS is killed off. That doesn't sound right... can someone fill me in?
- Veen 6y ago
  Angular 1, not Angular 2 or more accurately, AngularJS was killed off and superseded by Angular.
- buzzy_hacker 6y ago
  This isn’t a great example, it’s succeeded by “Angular”, v2 of AngularJS.
- chillax 6y ago
  See: https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status Looks like it will get security patches through parts of next year. Angular, the successor to AngularJS is still alive and kicking.
- parheric 6y ago
  As mentioned... it's Angular "1" and it's planned for July 2021 when LTS ends. https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status
  - badRNG 6y ago
    Thanks for clearing that up! This feels like it probably doesn't belong on this site. We don't say Google "killed" Android (Nougat), it's just an old EOL version. I've not used Angular, so maybe there are some salient differences I'm not appreciating.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
    - pc86 6y ago
      The differences between AngularJS and Angular are roughly at the same level as the differences between Angular and React or Angular and jQuery.
      - mcv 6y ago
        Even so, it's not exactly comparable to killing a service. If you really want to continue using Angular 1, you can. You can even fork it and keep it up to date yourself. That's completely different from abandoning a proprietary service.
    - square_usual 6y ago
      Lots of people don't like Angular-non-js, since it makes a lot of breaking changes and, among other things, switches to Typescript. AngularJS going EOL is effectively equal to it dying.
- syshum 6y ago
  Angular, a typescript based framework is different from AngularJS a javascript based framework even though that have the same root name Google killed AngularJS.
- prathiks 6y ago
  I tweeted the site owner he refused to remove it. According to him its angular js is killed

paulcole 6y ago

Medium going out of business seems inevitable.

iso1631 6y ago

There's pros and cons. I had a 4 letter .com back in the late 90s, but I was on holiday and my card expired - the hosting company emailed me, but clearly I didn't get it, so they didn't renew, and "ename technology" have been squatting it for 20 years.

frandroid 6y ago
I always have two cards on file with my registrar, but this year I had to cancel one card and the other one expired. Thankfully I was on top of my emails but I came within a month of losing my domains, which all kind of renew around the same time. It's frustrating to have to worry about this every once in a while.
- nacs 6y ago
  Then renew 2 years at a time and then set a reminder to extend the renewal every year? That way you have a full year of leeway.

willcipriano 6y ago

You can petition ICANN if you lost a domain that you paid for. As long as you are the rightful owner it will be returned to you. Keep a active credit card on file with your registrar and keep a credit with them as well. All the horror stories I see are cases where someone stops paying. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

pc86 6y ago
> As long as you are the rightful owner it will be returned to you. As long you can prove you are the rightful owner. Sometimes that's much easier said than done, especially to a particular burden of proof they might require to pull the domain away from someone actively using it.
- treeman79 6y ago
  Was running a multi hour deploy. Only minor features, so low risk. Everything broke with our biggest client. After a massive scramble it turned out our clients certificate had expired, in middle of the deploy. So our system could no longer talk to them. Whoops
sct202 6y ago
It's going to be a lot easier for Google to do that to get blogspot.in back versus if I were to do it.

ignoramous 6y ago

> You would have much more likely chance being kicked by the registrar/card not accepted/country ban/forgot password/domain hacked/forgetting to renew and myriad of other reasons... Folks underestimate how easily this can happen and how very painful the entire process can be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597025

badsectoracula 6y ago

You aren't using your own domain because Google may forget to renew their domain, you are using your own domain so you are not relying on Google to make your content available. If you are afraid that your registrar may kick you out, you should also be afraid that Google may kick you out too - which actually has a higher chance to happen than losing your own domain (assuming you are paying for it). Personally after losing my blog when Posterous shut down i decided i do not want to bother with 3rd party blog services anymore.

swiley 6y ago

I have a lot more faith in me maintaining my personal domain name than google maintaining whatever service. I also get evicted if I don’t pay rent on time. Paying recurring fees so services remain available is part of being a functional person.