I must say, the failure of Google to adequately communicate the reason behind an account suspension scares me. As someone who depends on Google just as much day to day, and even sets up Google for Business accounts for some of our customers, it worries me.
This is somewhat of a chink in Google's armor (the whole cloud concept really). Managing that many users AND monitoring for misuse of accounts with finite resources is a more than daunting task.
It's never a good idea to store your data in one place that someone else owns, especially when you are one of millions of users. With a free solution you're not going to get the attention you deserve.
Google for Business gets semi-special treatment in the fact that Google actually has real info on their customers whereas a random Google account is sometimes difficult to truly authenticate for.
You can't even sell the domain names you purchase with the google for business thing. Maybe you can if you shell out the money for the 'real' account, but for the 10$ domain and normal account, as far as I can tell, you are SOL if you want to sell the domain to someone else:
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I must say, the failure of Google to adequately communicate the reason behind an account suspension scares me. As someone who depends on Google just as much day to day, and even sets up Google for Business accounts for some of our customers, it worries me.
This is somewhat of a chink in Google's armor (the whole cloud concept really). Managing that many users AND monitoring for misuse of accounts with finite resources is a more than daunting task.
It's never a good idea to store your data in one place that someone else owns, especially when you are one of millions of users. With a free solution you're not going to get the attention you deserve.
Google for Business gets semi-special treatment in the fact that Google actually has real info on their customers whereas a random Google account is sometimes difficult to truly authenticate for.
You can't even sell the domain names you purchase with the google for business thing. Maybe you can if you shell out the money for the 'real' account, but for the 10$ domain and normal account, as far as I can tell, you are SOL if you want to sell the domain to someone else:
http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/09/23/caveat-emptor-dominium