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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by unity1001 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:45PM (#32801150)
> I would only buy a gTLD managed by Google

Google? Who has a grotesque history of shutting stuff down on people's faces because a collection of execs decided so?

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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by talideon on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:53PM (#32801209)
They have to follow ICANN rules for registry operators, just like everyone else. Google can't simply shut down their registry operations: management would be moved to another registry operator.
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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by hedora on Sunday September 11, 2022 @04:38PM (#32803063)
Isn’t this analogous to the problem where control of governments change, and the new registry operator can have arbitrarily bad rules / prices?
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Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? by thiht on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:50PM (#32802656)
I gave a relevant answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799919

Google Registry is not just any user facing product they can shutdown whenever they want. I have no issue renting a .app or a .dev, but I'd never use Google Domains for that.

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