Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace?

Posted by recursive4 on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For developers who are using Google Domains, are you going to migrate to Squarespace? I'm not thrilled about the sale/transition and am looking for alternatives.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by johng on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:39PM (#37907026)

Cloudflare here because their pricing is good. But they definitely have a limited set of features as far as domain registration goes.

For example, you can only register one domain at a time.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by ternera on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:16PM (#37906755)

I don't like the idea of Squarespace becoming a registrar, so I moved my domains over to Porkbun at the suggestion of the friend and have been quite pleased with them.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by verdverm on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:15PM (#37906749)

I'm looking at cloudflare, which is much more dev oriented

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by chiefalchemist on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:00PM (#37907273)

I recently started using NamesCheap.com mainly because a domain name's registration details (that show up on Who Is?) are kept private and that's included in their base price.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by johng on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:07PM (#37907340)

Cloudflare does registration privacy as well. I think most decent registrars offer that for free now.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by chiefalchemist on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:28PM (#37907530)

Yes and no. It's free in the sense they embed it in the price (i.e., it's not extra). But the price does vary across registrars.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by akerl_ on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:57PM (#37907828)

Just for my sanity, do you mean namecheap.com ?

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by chiefalchemist on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:42PM (#37908742)

Yes. My apologies for the typo.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by mikecoles on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:19PM (#37907460)

Porkbun.

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Re:Ask HN: Migrating from Google Domains to Squarespace? by akerl_ on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:00PM (#37907856)

I switched to Gandi.net . I'd originally wanted to move to AWS Route53, but they don't support the TLDs for some of my domains. Gandi supports all the domains I have. I was between them and Porkbun, and what tipped me towards them is that they have a 1st party Terraform provider ( https://registry.terraform.io/providers/go-gandi/gandi/lates... ).

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