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The timeline of Google’s domain registration business, according to Wikipedia: * 2005: Google became a domain name registrar. * 2015: Google Domains was publi
by cpeterso 3y ago
The timeline of Google’s domain registration business, according to Wikipedia:
* 2005: Google became a domain name registrar.
* 2015: Google Domains was publicly launched under a beta test mode.
* March 2022: Google announced that Google Domains was officially out of beta.
* June 2023: Squarespace concluded an agreement to purchase the Google Domains business.
Exiting beta in 2022 after seven years suggests Google planned to get serious about Google Domains. What happened between 2022 and 2023 that made them decide to kill it? I guess when a hobby becomes a business, the bar to keep it going is a lot higher.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Domains https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Domains
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoIt looks like they decided in January 2022 to sell it. You don't get a higher price by selling a beta product.
- zarzavat 3y agoIf that turns out to be true that’s extremely short sighted. The whole point of the beta designation is to indicate “this might go away” to customers. They will lose more from burning their customers than they would have gained. Unlike other google products, cloud is something that 1) they have paying customers, 2) it is competitive, 3) Google is not the market leader. So they don’t have any room to be fucking around with customers.
- cachvico 3y agoBeta can also just mean "there might be bugs".
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoI'm not disagreeing, but so far I have never seen evidence that Google cares about any of its customers. And they don't really have to as long as they're the incumbent market leader in a ridiculously profitable industry (advertising). Eventually Google Cloud will die and Azure will buy it for a song. It may take 10 years but it's going to happen.