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Where are you winding up moving your domains? I need to make a decision on that in the next 29 days...

I got an email saying they sold the business to squarespace. Apparently if you don't do anything they will transfer them for you.

True, and I guess they've promised to keep renewals at the same price for a year after that. After that they're (currently) notably more expensive, though, and I don't have any interest in being upsold on anything else Squarespace offers, so...

Yeah I'm sure they will spam my email with offers where I get a "free" domain renewal if I subscribe to their website builder.

WordPress.com is offering free transfers from Google Domains.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/08/01/transfer-unlimited-goo...

(Full disclosure, I work for Automattic )

Cloudflare. Cheap and is relatively painless to manage, DMARC included. It doesn't hurt that their dev documentation is pretty great.

Cloudflare has been promising to add support for all the missing TLDs for years, but seemingly just forgot about the product entirely. And I don't mean esoteric new endings, but mere country TLDs (e.g. `.de`).

Google might be outright killing stuff, but Cloudflare moves from one interesting thing to the next like a goldfish with too much money and a huge supply of speed.

It is tragic that they won't support .MOE domains. Would have moved years ago by now.

Yes - I use Cloudflare now.

I'm using PorkBun as my registrar, and CloudFlare as my DNS host.

fyi porkbun's built in DNS is cloudflare

Yeah, that was an unexpected turn of events.

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