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Re:Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google... by scrollaway on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:07AM (#36351088)
Given how much effort they’re putting into vertexai I doubt they’re bailing on cloud.

I wager it’s just expensive to run a registry. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what they’re really selling (the TLDs), rather than the registrar.

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Re:Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google... by petercooper on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:52AM (#36353485)
It appears to be the opposite to me. They appear to be selling the public facing registrar. Their wholesale registry, which appears to hold the TLDs, is Google Registry: https://www.registry.google/

I suspect Google finds it a lot easier to run a registry with a few enterprise clients than to deal with flesh and blood customers owning domains.

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