Google Apps Botches Domain Renewals, Websites Go Dark

Re:Google Apps Botches Domain Renewals, Websites Go Dark by tdavis on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @07:25AM (#453675)

Holy crap, you mean I shouldn't use a company that isn't a domain registrar as my domain registrar?! This is like complaining when you get a dedicated server from GoDaddy -- they're a fine registrar, but a completely horrible host and many employees will tell you not to order servers from them.

There's a reason that no company can truly "do it all" -- it's just too difficult and quality starts to suffer. Google does e-mail pretty well, which is really the only thing we use the Premier Apps for.

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Re:Google Apps Botches Domain Renewals, Websites Go Dark by mattmcknight on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:32PM (#454176)

Actually Google makes it pretty clear that they aren't a domain registrar, and their sign-up process used to encourage you to get a domain before you get started. I am curious as to why they don't serve as domain registrar. I actually have my Google Apps domain through Yahoo, who used to host my mail....

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Re:Google Apps Botches Domain Renewals, Websites Go Dark by josefresco on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:05PM (#454125)

You're right about GoDaddy doing domains well, and not much else. Their hosting is the worst. However, other simple services like domains, for example: SSL certs are also done well.

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