Google Domain Registrar and Dynamic DNS support.

[Lazybones]

So Google Domains came out of beta this year.. I have been slightly annoyed at higher prices at rebel.ca so I was looking around and found it.

I have also been using zoneedit.com to host my DNS for Dynamic DNS support. Turns out Google Domains supports dynamic DNS clients.

I am in the middle of porting my domain so I will report the results but it looks like I will be able to consolidate domain registration and DNS with DYDNS on google. Doing some quick checks my Edgerouter client supports the a compatible DYNDNS protocol so this should be a nice setup.

Plus so far is the bare clean interface, and lack of ads / upsell that EVERY domain registrar has.

[Lazybones]

Domain transfer went smoothly.

I setup my DNS records in Google.

Setup of the Dynamic DNS was a little flaky as it didn't quite match the documentation in googles own help and I had to fiddle with my edgerouter a bit (nothing new) but got it all working.

Over all a positive process.

[Mr. Analog]

I'm going to look into this because Network Solutions is THE worst

[Lazybones]

Interesting that my google .ca domain registration appears in Whois as good old Tucows.com Co. not Google directly.

[Mr. Analog]

Hahaha!!

[Lazybones]

WELL FU$# https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/

"In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is "winding down following a transition period," with Squarespace taking over the business and assets."

[Mr. Analog]

Womp womp

[Darren Dirt]

that deescalated quickly 🤡

But srsly, this comment by "Jimmy Hoffa" summarizes alternatives:

https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/?spot_im_redirect_source=user-profile&spot_im_comment_id=sp_rVSSRN5u_575130_c_2RGvsF7R5hQ5piORyUVsd1LEdHK_r_2RHmRDtn0CZrBU0I3RZqBjvJpPO&spot_im_highlight_immediate=true

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[Lazybones]

I think at this point chrome, gmail, search and maps are the only google services I plan to keep using.. However search and chrome might be easy to replace at some point..

Google domains was only out of beta ONE YEAR.

[Thorin]

Drive and Docs and Sheets and Slides and Chat and Meet are all still going strong, but they're also bought by corporate customers so that makes sense.

[Lazybones]

Chat and Meet

That does have the side problem of Google inventing several different solutions all at once "Google Duo/Google Hangouts/Google Meet".

I have also noticed that MOST of the google workspace companies we colab with use Zoom instead of Meet.