The Google Graveyard grows

  • TraceLines@dataterm.digital
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    1 year ago

    Given that every Google product/project that gets announced eventually shuts down, what’s the expected lifespan of ‘search’? ;D

  • Wintersong@dataterm.digital
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    1 year ago

    Just looking at the prices of Squarespace, the domains seem quite a bit more than both Google Domains and the registrar I use. They’re honoring the current prices for a period at least but I’m guessing some people are gonna be annoyed at increase in a couple of years time. I’m surprised though, I thought maybe this was at least profitable (or maybe it is just not enough). At least Google sold it off this time instead of straight up killing it…

  • lagged@dataterm.digital
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    1 year ago

    Interesting. Square Space is no global cloud provider, just a large SaaS company. Do any of the other major cloud providers offer domain buying and ownership services? As far as I know AWS and Azure only provide DNS. Maybe Cloudflare does domain buying?