No one sunsets products like Google.

I’m in the middle of transferring all my domains from Squarespace thanks to Googles sale of that business to that incredibly lousy vendor.

Ugh, same. You’re right. Nothing is safe at Google or even a safe bet with Google. Look at third-party cookies. I can’t believe there isn’t outrage in the streets over the fact that they beat that drum for four straight years and now they suddenly have a change of heart.

At some point their rationale has to become irrelevant. It’s simply unprofessional behavior.

> Nothing is safe at Google

Google Ads

This narrative might be shifting in realtime with the LLM race and privacy wars. How do I advertise in Gemini? Do Google users want me to? I’ve worked in and around digital advertising and marketing for the better part of a decade. We look at Google with all the admiration one would have for a pet crocodile.

May I inquire who you're moving to, and where I might browse to in order to follow you away from Squarespace / Google Domains? :)

the correct answer I think is cloudflare? I'm a little wary of internet homogenization like this but I haven't the time to worry about this sort of thing for my spare one-off domains

I have moved all of mine to Cloudflare.

NameCheap for the ones they support. I don’t like how tightly wound Cloudflare domains are with the account. I’m nervous about putting too many eggs in one basket with them. I sometimes need to switch hosting a domain in a cloudflare account with another cloudflare account. They don’t let you do that without moving a domain to a third party registrar first. I just shortened that process.

This is how I ended up on Cloudflare. Burn by Google yet again.

Now we wait until you get burned by Cloudflare. Have we already forgotten the "We've discovered a technical problem with your domain: pay us $150,000 or fuck off"

Not that I'm aware of and this is likely now just a cloudflare worker that returns the IP they already have. I would imagine maintenance is basically zero as its feature complete.

True but there is no such thing as zero maintenance