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Google Domains migration + Web frontend improvements
August 22nd, 2023
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I recently logged into Google Domains to change some minor DNS setting
and was greeted by this bullshit: "Google recently entered into an
agreement for Squarespace, Inc. to acquire all domain name registrations
from Google Domains, with the purchase subject to regulatory approval
and customary closing conditions. If the transaction closes, you will
become a Squarespace customer and, following a transition period, your
customer and billing information, if applicable, will be transferred to
Squarespace, at which point Squarespace's Privacy Policy and Terms of
Service will apply."

I received no email or any other communication about this, so I was
caught a bit off-guard... Squarespace is not a company I care to deal
with at all. Consequently I have transferred the zcrayfish.soy domain to
Hover (Tucows) as a registrar, and am using Linode as the DNS servers.
It has been a bit over 24 hours since I made the change, but I have
outrageously high TTL values set here, so it's possible (though not very
likely) that some breakage could occur.

Naturally being someone who has used Google since nearly the very
beginning, I am accustomed to them randomly shutting down services,
though as third or fourth (depending on who you ask) largest domain
registrar, I assumed they would have kept running for a while... Hell
they still have pending brand-new TLDs!



In other news, I have implemented a minor improvement to the web font-
end of the gopher server here... After determining that there is not one
web browser that respects user's dark mode and/or light mode preference
(most implement one or the other, but not both, and they do it BADLY),
I setup a page in which users can pick between three stylesheets.

=> The page can be viewed here

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does alphabet, inc. secretly own squarespace?
Posted Wed Aug 23 07:44:15 UTC 2023 by anonymous
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No
Posted Thu Feb 23 03:55:20 UTC 2024 by zcrayfish
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