I'm really not sure what google is thinking with this one. It's not the biggest money maker but google domains is viable and a really easy to use product.

Wondering what other core web services google may sell off.

It ties in with Workspace nicely too, odd move for sure.

It's a Google product - is anyone really surprised that it was https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?

general good advice: never buy anything from google or use any google products

I've spent this year slowly moving everything away from them. It's exhausting putting effort into their things to just have them die a few years later. In this case it lasted almost 10 years.. but still seemed to be working for them. Maybe it has to do with the engineering efforts to keep things going, and the kind of employee retention?

So what happens to .dev domains? Squarespace said they wouldn't raise prices for a year, but what happens afterwards?

Google will continue to "own" .dev; you just won't be able to buy .dev domains directly from them anymore. .dev domains will continue to be available for purchase from registrars besides Squarespace. (Google is only selling their registrar, not their registry - see https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/domain_pricing_is_very_confu... to understand the difference.)

The question still stands— is Squarespace going to now be capable of selling .dev domains? Or are they just going to hold on to the legacy ones? Or those going to go to a different registrar altogether?

The weirdest thing about this whole sale isn't that it's happening, it's the fact that Google hasn't communicated at all.

Just finished migrating all my domains to porkbun ^>^

Google doing Google.

[dupe]

Many discussions about this in the last week, including stuff from/about Gergley:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36349033

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36423465