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I felt like I could rationalize a lot of Google decisions to kill products, such as Inbox or Reader, but retiring Google Domains really shook my confidence in G

I felt like I could rationalize a lot of Google decisions to kill products, such as Inbox or Reader, but retiring Google Domains really shook my confidence in GCP.

exac 2y ago
It is actually insane that they did this. I literally stopped recommending people use GCP over this - you can't get started easily because you have to use another platform for the domain. Why even use GCP at all?
- freeqaz 2y ago
  It was also incredibly sticky with GSuite. Setting up security and everything was a breeze -- DMARC email records, SMTP, etc all magic -- I truly couldn't believe when this was announced. It was incredibly sad and I still feel upset about it a year later. Porkbun is my go to registrar now. And I switched my email to Migadu.
  - red-iron-pine 2y ago
    also at porkbun for dns, big fan. saying this as someone who used to work for enom, if that matters.
- candiddevmike 2y ago
  Google Cloud Domains is still a thing, and you can purchase domains from the console still. The registrar changed to square space, but it didn't really impact Google Cloud's usage.
  - aeternum 2y ago
    Even a worse decision then because they're still supporting UI around it. Did it really come down to some PM not wanting to do registrar paperwork?
krisgenre 2y ago
Even though I was a Google fanboy, this was a nail in the head. Had a .dev domain which expired and squarespace asked like 6 times more to let me buy it back. Waited till the grace period was over and bought it back for the original price from NameCheap.
noname120 2y ago
Absolutely staggering. Google Domains complemented GCP perfectly and would make thanks to Cloud DNS a stellar seamless end-to-end integration. I'm in disbelief as to why they removed this crucial feature while at the same time going full in with GCP. I could understand deprecating Google Domains for B2C, but for B2B?! What went through their heads?
- moogly 2y ago
  Because they couldn't shoehorn "AI" into the product, I guess.
  - lazide 2y ago
    No, some of the folks involved in the decision (literally) previously worked for GoDaddy. Even dumber.
campers 2y ago
Agreed, such a critical piece of infrastructure, the mind boggles. I'll have to see what I can pry out of our Google account team about it.

I felt like I could rationalize a lot of Google decisions to kill products, such as Inbox or Reader, but retiring Google Domains really shook my confidence in GCP.

exac 2y ago

It is actually insane that they did this. I literally stopped recommending people use GCP over this - you can't get started easily because you have to use another platform for the domain. Why even use GCP at all?

freeqaz 2y ago
It was also incredibly sticky with GSuite. Setting up security and everything was a breeze -- DMARC email records, SMTP, etc all magic -- I truly couldn't believe when this was announced. It was incredibly sad and I still feel upset about it a year later. Porkbun is my go to registrar now. And I switched my email to Migadu.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago
  also at porkbun for dns, big fan. saying this as someone who used to work for enom, if that matters.
candiddevmike 2y ago
Google Cloud Domains is still a thing, and you can purchase domains from the console still. The registrar changed to square space, but it didn't really impact Google Cloud's usage.
- aeternum 2y ago
  Even a worse decision then because they're still supporting UI around it. Did it really come down to some PM not wanting to do registrar paperwork?

krisgenre 2y ago

Even though I was a Google fanboy, this was a nail in the head. Had a .dev domain which expired and squarespace asked like 6 times more to let me buy it back. Waited till the grace period was over and bought it back for the original price from NameCheap.

noname120 2y ago

Absolutely staggering. Google Domains complemented GCP perfectly and would make thanks to Cloud DNS a stellar seamless end-to-end integration. I'm in disbelief as to why they removed this crucial feature while at the same time going full in with GCP. I could understand deprecating Google Domains for B2C, but for B2B?! What went through their heads?

moogly 2y ago
Because they couldn't shoehorn "AI" into the product, I guess.
- lazide 2y ago
  No, some of the folks involved in the decision (literally) previously worked for GoDaddy. Even dumber.

campers 2y ago

Agreed, such a critical piece of infrastructure, the mind boggles. I'll have to see what I can pry out of our Google account team about it.