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> Permira, the global private equity firm current Squarespace users about to get gouged

by xyst 2y ago

darig 2y ago
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jasonjmcghee 2y ago
I've been procrastinating transferring my domains after Google sold them to squarespace. Now they're getting sold again... Are domains the new junk loans?
- refulgentis 2y ago
  No, domains are not junk loans
- htrp 2y ago
  Wait until you get Domain Backed Securitization.
  - NewJazz 2y ago
    Oh gosh wait until Amazon sells securities based on their v4 addresses then aggressively starts making their services v6-first lol.
dawnerd 2y ago
Conveniently after taking over all of Google Domains too! I missed transferring a couple of domains before the cutover and now I’m in squarespace hell trying to get them out. They make it so much harder by putting artificial delays on everything.
- johnbellone 2y ago
  I was about to go start the transfer process. How bad of a time am I in for?
  - tomrod 2y ago
    Took two days to get any authorization codes. No idea how bad the actual transfer will be. Ugh. Also, and perhaps Google will finally find this, if you are an OWNER on a SQUARESPACE DOMAIN after the GOOGLE DOMAIN TRANSFER, you can't seem to create MX or TXT or other records. But if you ADD A NEW USER as a DOMAIN MANAGER then you can create the records, as far as I can tell.
    - dawnerd 2y ago
      Its supposedly a mandatory five day wait after you initiate the transfer with the code. I had to contact support since the transfer code button wasn't making any requests to their server despite the modal saying it did.
  - iamkonstantin 2y ago
    It took me a total of two weeks to complete the transfer. I didn’t need to contact support, but the process requires patience … and some downtime as I had no way of knowing exactly when the transfer happens to recreate the DNS records.
  - esturcke 2y ago
    I transferred 6 domains to porkbun and it was about 2 days to get the code and 5 days to transfer. Mostly painless, but DNS records were not copied over. I tried to see if I could manually copy them over in advance, but I got an error with porkbun. I probably didn't know how to do it correctly, but I needed up with a couple minutes of downtime. I don't remember having to do anything when I went from namecheap to google, but that was a while ago.
    - verdverm 2y ago
      I'm migrating to Cloudflare You can setup alternative nameservers first, they clone current DNS settings, then you update nameservers. Do the transfer after. This worked while they were at Google Domains and about to be transfered. Haven't tried with squarespace yet, but it ought to work
- Corrado 2y ago
  I had a couple of .dev domains on Google Domains. Unfortunately, you can't migrate those to another registrar as the .dev TLD is locked to Squarespace. I wonder if they will ever unlock the .dev TLD.
  - paranoidxprod 2y ago
    I was just able to finish transferring out my .dev domain from Google to Cloudflare. I had started the process when SquareSpace first took them over but forgot to finish until I saw this, but I was able to transfer out my .dev domain!
ghaff 2y ago
I was looking at hosted website/blog options a while back and it looks like pretty much everyone has teaser rates that blow up after some time period and have low-cost plans that almost work for a given need but you actually have to go up a tier of 2. I have an existing blog on Blogger and have no need for ecommerce or a lot of business stuff. It's basically a home page and a blog. I came to the conclusion I should just leave things as they are and maybe add a second blog for a different purpose. It's free and if it becomes a problem, I'll deal with it when it does.
nkotov 2y ago
I just launched a site on Squarespace - $25 a month for a basic landing page.
- avree 2y ago
  That seems about right? I use Netlify to deploy my own 11ty static site, and it costs $19/month, plus there's no WYSIWYG editor like Squarespace.
  - dewey 2y ago
    What’s the reason for doing that? Can’t you host a static page for 5 dollars basically everywhere? Even on expensive AWS it’s 5 dollars: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
    - gruez 2y ago
      lightsail is basically the lowest tier of AWS offerings. It's designed to compete with providers like linode or digitalocean, not gcp or azure. Moreover, lightsail is IaaS - you get a vps that you have to set up and administer yourself. Squarespace/Netlify is PaaS or SaaS - all that is handled for you. Maybe you think all of that isn't too hard and isn't worth the $14 or whatever premium, but it's still comparing apples to oranges.
  - ericd 2y ago
    Any reason to go that route over just making an S3 bucket publicly accessible and pointing dns at it? Should cost roughly $0/mo unless you’re getting massive amounts of traffic.
  - VHRanger 2y ago
    Cloudflare pages has been excellent for my 11ty site. The free tier is great, prices after that are reasonable. Also - there's a bunch of integrations with their other stuff (serverless, D1, etc.) You'll get more lock-in, but you can scale up the static site to become basically a full frontend-backend app from there.
- 2y ago
nasmorn 2y ago
Just wrote that to someone I know who has a square space site
rstat1 2y ago
If you were a Google Domains customer even before this buyout you were gonna get gouged on renewals. After like a year or maybe it was 2 I forget, the cost of my domain was going to double from $15 a year US to to $30 with Squarespace. Moved it to Cloudflare, and now it's cheaper than it was with Google.

> Permira, the global private equity firm current Squarespace users about to get gouged

by xyst 2y ago

> Permira, the global private equity firm current Squarespace users about to get gouged

darig 2y ago

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jasonjmcghee 2y ago

I've been procrastinating transferring my domains after Google sold them to squarespace. Now they're getting sold again... Are domains the new junk loans?

refulgentis 2y ago
No, domains are not junk loans
htrp 2y ago
Wait until you get Domain Backed Securitization.
- NewJazz 2y ago
  Oh gosh wait until Amazon sells securities based on their v4 addresses then aggressively starts making their services v6-first lol.

dawnerd 2y ago

Conveniently after taking over all of Google Domains too! I missed transferring a couple of domains before the cutover and now I’m in squarespace hell trying to get them out. They make it so much harder by putting artificial delays on everything.

johnbellone 2y ago
I was about to go start the transfer process. How bad of a time am I in for?
- tomrod 2y ago
  Took two days to get any authorization codes. No idea how bad the actual transfer will be. Ugh. Also, and perhaps Google will finally find this, if you are an OWNER on a SQUARESPACE DOMAIN after the GOOGLE DOMAIN TRANSFER, you can't seem to create MX or TXT or other records. But if you ADD A NEW USER as a DOMAIN MANAGER then you can create the records, as far as I can tell.
  - dawnerd 2y ago
    Its supposedly a mandatory five day wait after you initiate the transfer with the code. I had to contact support since the transfer code button wasn't making any requests to their server despite the modal saying it did.
- iamkonstantin 2y ago
  It took me a total of two weeks to complete the transfer. I didn’t need to contact support, but the process requires patience … and some downtime as I had no way of knowing exactly when the transfer happens to recreate the DNS records.
- esturcke 2y ago
  I transferred 6 domains to porkbun and it was about 2 days to get the code and 5 days to transfer. Mostly painless, but DNS records were not copied over. I tried to see if I could manually copy them over in advance, but I got an error with porkbun. I probably didn't know how to do it correctly, but I needed up with a couple minutes of downtime. I don't remember having to do anything when I went from namecheap to google, but that was a while ago.
  - verdverm 2y ago
    I'm migrating to Cloudflare You can setup alternative nameservers first, they clone current DNS settings, then you update nameservers. Do the transfer after. This worked while they were at Google Domains and about to be transfered. Haven't tried with squarespace yet, but it ought to work
Corrado 2y ago
I had a couple of .dev domains on Google Domains. Unfortunately, you can't migrate those to another registrar as the .dev TLD is locked to Squarespace. I wonder if they will ever unlock the .dev TLD.
- paranoidxprod 2y ago
  I was just able to finish transferring out my .dev domain from Google to Cloudflare. I had started the process when SquareSpace first took them over but forgot to finish until I saw this, but I was able to transfer out my .dev domain!

ghaff 2y ago

I was looking at hosted website/blog options a while back and it looks like pretty much everyone has teaser rates that blow up after some time period and have low-cost plans that almost work for a given need but you actually have to go up a tier of 2. I have an existing blog on Blogger and have no need for ecommerce or a lot of business stuff. It's basically a home page and a blog. I came to the conclusion I should just leave things as they are and maybe add a second blog for a different purpose. It's free and if it becomes a problem, I'll deal with it when it does.

nkotov 2y ago

I just launched a site on Squarespace - $25 a month for a basic landing page.

avree 2y ago
That seems about right? I use Netlify to deploy my own 11ty static site, and it costs $19/month, plus there's no WYSIWYG editor like Squarespace.
- dewey 2y ago
  What’s the reason for doing that? Can’t you host a static page for 5 dollars basically everywhere? Even on expensive AWS it’s 5 dollars: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
  - gruez 2y ago
    lightsail is basically the lowest tier of AWS offerings. It's designed to compete with providers like linode or digitalocean, not gcp or azure. Moreover, lightsail is IaaS - you get a vps that you have to set up and administer yourself. Squarespace/Netlify is PaaS or SaaS - all that is handled for you. Maybe you think all of that isn't too hard and isn't worth the $14 or whatever premium, but it's still comparing apples to oranges.
- ericd 2y ago
  Any reason to go that route over just making an S3 bucket publicly accessible and pointing dns at it? Should cost roughly $0/mo unless you’re getting massive amounts of traffic.
- VHRanger 2y ago
  Cloudflare pages has been excellent for my 11ty site. The free tier is great, prices after that are reasonable. Also - there's a bunch of integrations with their other stuff (serverless, D1, etc.) You'll get more lock-in, but you can scale up the static site to become basically a full frontend-backend app from there.
2y ago

nasmorn 2y ago

Just wrote that to someone I know who has a square space site

rstat1 2y ago

If you were a Google Domains customer even before this buyout you were gonna get gouged on renewals. After like a year or maybe it was 2 I forget, the cost of my domain was going to double from $15 a year US to to $30 with Squarespace. Moved it to Cloudflare, and now it's cheaper than it was with Google.