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WhonderWy on 16/03/2022 - 15:31 domains.google.com (368 clicks)
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DOMAINS20

https://domains.google/intl/en_au/learn/out-of-beta/

We launched Google Domains in 2015 to be the easiest place to find, buy, and manage a domain. Since then, millions of customers have trusted us with their online home, and we've added more tools and features to bring Google-class ease of use to finding and using a domain name.

Millions of customers trust Google Domains with their online home

Customers have come to rely on the ability to easily integrate Google Analytics, Search Console and Workspace, with the reliability of DNS on Google infrastructure. They get that, plus privacy and security features like two-factor authentication, privacy protection and DNSSEC, all included in our simple, transparent pricing.

Today, with more than 7 million active registrations, we're reinforcing our commitment to our customers by moving Google Domains out of beta and into general availability.To mark the occasion, we're offering everyone 20% off any single domain registration or transfer-in to Google Domains using the code DOMAINS20. Redeem this offer now.

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  • pr3ggas on 16/03/2022 - 15:35
    +9

    And shutting down the free google domain email hosting. I personally wouldn't trust them to keep this running.

    • Elijha on 16/03/2022 - 15:46
      +1

      The free domain hosting you havn't been able to sign up for .. for like over 8 years or something right?

      • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 15:50
        -1

        There were ways around that…

        • Elijha on 16/03/2022 - 15:55
          -1

          So you had a loop hole to get around paying for something .. they stopped providing it and are the unethical company?

          • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 16:01
            +1

            @Elijha: I never said I used the loophole. I merely said it existed.

          • bienvenu on 16/03/2022 - 16:21
            -2

            @Elijha: Signing up for a free service which was promoted directly on their website is a "loop hole"?

            Nailed it.

            • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 16:46

              @bienvenu: Yep I’m referring to loopholes to signup after signups we’re officially disabled.
              One of the methods to assign additional domains worked as late as 2019 as far as I could find.

  • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 15:36
    -1

    Unethical company. Does not honour their word.

    • solidice on 16/03/2022 - 15:37
      +1

      How?

      • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 15:42
        +9

        Charging something that was publicly promised to be free forever

        • Elijha on 16/03/2022 - 16:02

          curious (about the free forever).. link?
          Hmm found this

      • Elijha on 16/03/2022 - 16:11
        +4

        Basically when Google introduced G Suite they allowed domain users to use domain mail for free on it - with limits .. (something like 10 accounts I think not sure).
        After a while they made G Suite a paid product and stopped offering it for free… so years later they stopped G Suite / Google Apps whatever you call it (in 2012) and expanded and renamed the service ie Google Workspaces.

        Then they fairly recently announced/decide to halt the free service aka "Google Apps Legacy"…. and told people to migrate to paid. Not for Profits, and some Education still have free options.
        https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en

        This naturally is going to annoy people*. The most concerning thing about it is that users who did not want to remain a Google customer and take the domain mail services elsewhere were also going to loose the Google Account. Since that is linked to your domain email - that means any paid linked items such as Apps, and media like TV Movies Audiobooks etc linked to the account being closed - WERE LOST. this could be a lot of $$$.

        Initially it was 'tough luck' we can't do anything about that (like, you know, maybe move your purchases to another Google account..) then after a bit of public outcry they have said they will make this migration possible… somehow.
        https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-relents-legac…

        *Not me I'm not a Google paid or free mail user… just followed this.

        • puffinfresh on 16/03/2022 - 16:48

          Oh. I have my personal email hosted with Google, and am planning on moving elsewhere when they start charging. I had no idea I'd lose the Google account entirely. I have YouTube Premium at a legacy rate, store credit, paid apps, saved passwords, etc, etc.

          • Elijha on 16/03/2022 - 17:09

            @puffinfresh: Yeah .. I'd be pissed.. but it sounds like they will let you make a [email protected] account and move it to that before the free period ends.

            • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 17:36
              +1

              @Elijha: Not quite.

              They have a service called “Cloud Identity Free” that is supposed to keep everything intact apart from email and calendar.

              So it will still be a separate login if someone creates/moves Mail and Calendar contents to an @gmail.com account.

              Eg
              1) purchases, drive, etc + all history -> [email protected]
              2) Mail and calendar -> [email protected]

              Edit: clarified statement.

  • willyroo on 16/03/2022 - 15:49
    +6

    we're reinforcing our commitment to our customers

    No. You aren't. You make promises, then break them.

  • Rumbaar on 16/03/2022 - 15:57

    I suggest checking out Freenom and their services.

    • krushgroove on 16/03/2022 - 16:15
      +1

      Lol they look even worse than Google

    • Kyle-K on 22/03/2022 - 04:44

      Yeah I would be staying away from them they've had their accreditation threaten several times as they have breached ICANN policy's repeatedly and failed to comply with their obligations when acting as a registrar.

  • superforever on 16/03/2022 - 16:12

    I normally use goDaddy

  • Namidairo on 16/03/2022 - 16:17
    +4

    Google Domains was decent when it first came out, when domain providers cough Namecheap used to try to nickel and dime you for addons like whois protection, mail forwarding etc.

    Nowadays, as these features are more standard, the value proposition makes less sense. You can get the mail forwarding and whois protection standard on most decent providers these days.

    Additionally, I believe Cloudflare sell domain registration at the wholesale cost. It's currently showing me ~$11.90 for a .com.

  • Chuppa on 16/03/2022 - 16:21
    +4

    Even with the discount, a .com is more expensive than Cloudflare's standard pricing!

    Cloudflare: $8.57 USD
    Google: $9.60 ($12) USD

  • Yabadabadoo on 16/03/2022 - 16:28
    +1

    Anyone know a cheap way to get email hosting ? I have a domain and want to be able to receive (in outlook, forwarding is fine) and send from different accounts (no more than 5 or so at a time, e.g. will delete accounts and create new ones) i also need one account to be a catch all for mail that doesn't have a current account.

    Everywhere I looks its more expensive that regular hosting that comes with unlimited email account and features etc. I thought having the domain with google domains would do it but its only forwarding unless you pay a lot for the Google Workspace mentioned above.

    • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 16:36

      Check out this comparison https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/comments/tcix…

      • Yabadabadoo on 17/03/2022 - 01:20

        thanks, i can confirm Purelymail does everything i need for a low price (the only one in the list). Is just $10us a year or $4 + usage which according to the calculator will only be ~$2 pre me so its great :)

    • coxymla on 16/03/2022 - 16:52

      Microsoft 365 Family is pretty good for $129/year, considering you get email hosting, access to full Office apps, and 1TB of OneDrive each, for up to 6 people.

      Don't think it can do the catch-all account though.

      • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 17:06

        Don't think it can do the catch-all account though.

        Correct

    • LowRange on 16/03/2022 - 17:43

      Did you have a website and hosting with a control panel such as cPanel? You can just setup email accounts using the control panel and have them sent to Outlook, it's pretty basic to do.

      • Elijha on 16/03/2022 - 18:14

        Quick cheap and easy to self manage - but I always found the SPAM filtering through Spam Assassin to be sub-par these days compared to 365 / Google services.

      • Yabadabadoo on 16/03/2022 - 18:21

        Yeah I use cpanel now. I was just wanting to save the cost of hosting given all I want is email. My hosting fee has gone from $32 to $72 a year and a bit sick of moving all the time to get it cheaper.

    • bio on 16/03/2022 - 18:17
      +2

      CloudFlare now offers free email forwarding. If you don't want to send email from your domains it should be fine. Last time I checked it was still in beta and there was a waiting list though.

      • Chuppa on 16/03/2022 - 19:30
        +2

        It's available to all now. Works well, including with catch-alls. Just no + addressing - although the catch-all does get them.

    • Smigit on 16/03/2022 - 20:27

      I’m a Google Workspace user and will stick with them for now (was paying anyway), but options I’d look at include

      • if you are an Apple user then you can get custom domains via iCloud if you have a paid iCloud account already. I wouldn’t necessarily pay for iCloud for this specifically, but my family has an Apple One subscription anyway so it’s potentially be an option for me to replace Google with something I’m paying for anyway
      • O365 is potentially a robust option and would include office tools
      • Fastmail is popular and quite cheap per a month. Also an Australian business. Email only

      Staying with Google for now but they have indicated they will drop Exchange Active Sync support which means I’ll no longer get push email to my mobile device unless I use the Google client once that takes effect. They delayed that due to backlash, but if it comes to pass then I’ll be looking at other options as push emails essential to me and I want to retain support for the iOS built in mail client.

      • puffinfresh on 16/03/2022 - 20:37

        I think I'll move my free account to Zoho for $1.65/m

        • Smigit on 17/03/2022 - 00:17

          Yeah that looked like an option too, especially as an alternative to O365 if you want the option for productivity apps.

  • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 16:34
    +1

    AWS is full registrar too

    • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 16:50

      Amazon is a lot of things tbh. Not sure I see them get airtime for domain and business email hosting in any circles I’m in socially and for businesses I work with.

      • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 17:22
        +1

        for buying and hosting domains its fine. For business email yes, I wonder why they not on the radar.

        On a side note, I just created my personal domain emails with iCloud+, $1.5/mo, domain is hosted on AWS

        • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 17:38
          +1

          iCloud+

          Shudders

          Now that is truly a service that should be in Beta.

          • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 17:39
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: Works fine for my personal emails for few years now, so far so good.

        • Chinaforever on 16/03/2022 - 18:32

          Was it hard to set this up. I have a couple of domains through google who I don’t want to pay google for come may.

          • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 18:36

            @Chinaforever: You mean iCloud personal domain emails? No, about 30 mins. There was gotcha for setting TXT records, I found you can have several lines in one TXT record.

            For hosting domains, transfer them to anything but Google. GoDaddy or AWS or else. Google is evil incarnated lol

            • Chinaforever on 16/03/2022 - 18:40

              @[Deactivated]: Awesome. Thankyou. I might need to get some help from apple but probably worth the short term stress for long term set and forget. Thanks.

              • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 19:13

                @Chinaforever: Do you care about DKIM?

                • Chinaforever on 16/03/2022 - 19:21

                  @[Deactivated]: I don’t even know what that is!

                • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 20:20

                  @[Deactivated]: Looks like its fixed now https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253225315?page=5

                  • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 20:39

                    @[Deactivated]: Typical. I switched out a couple of weeks ago…

                    There’s still other issues I have with it, it’s a very very basic mail system.

                    For one: I have zero emails in any iCloud folders, but they claim there’s a folder in my deleted items full of 1.4gb.

                    I can’t see it, they can’t see the contents or purge it, nor can they restore it. Spent hours with multiple L2 techs with no resolution, and many promises of escalation.

  • LowRange on 16/03/2022 - 16:49
    +1

    Wouldn't trust them to keep any service running https://killedbygoogle.com

  • T-man on 16/03/2022 - 17:26
    +1

    I got 30% off, the offer only applies to top domain like .com .net not .com.au

    • [Deactivated] on 16/03/2022 - 17:37

      .com.au is only allowed from a handful of registrars. From memory must be Au-based.

      • T-man on 16/03/2022 - 17:44
        +1

        Before you can’t, now you can with google domain, I just transferred one of my .com.au domains.

      • Kyle-K on 22/03/2022 - 04:35

        .com.au is only allowed from a handful of registrars.

        .au domain names can be sold by any registrar that's willing to pay and go through the accreditation process pretty much the same as any TLD or ccTLD.

        From memory must be Au-based.

        There's no such requirement for registrars. Registrants do have to abide by the ccTLD eligibility requirements set out by auDA.

        Before you can’t, now you can with google domain, I just transferred one of my .com.au domains.

        They've had support for a little while now. However you do need to keep in mind that they are not the registrar of record like they are for most of the other extensions. Google is acting as a re-seller with these ccTLD's with a CentralNic own company acting as the registrar of record.

  • bio on 16/03/2022 - 18:22

    Cheaper elsewhere

    • darkly on 23/03/2022 - 17:06

      Does Cloudfare offer the .au

      • Kyle-K on 23/03/2022 - 19:04

        No not as of yet they're working on it according to a blog post.

  • CheapAzM8 on 23/03/2022 - 09:10
    Merged from Google Domains 20% off Any Single Domain Registration or Transfer

    Google are celebrating their out of beta by Offering 20% off any single domain registration or transfer.

    Check out their terms and conditions:

    Terms and conditions: Valid for 20% discount, with a maximum redemption value of $5 USD (or the local currency equivalent), against a new or transfer-in domain registration price from eligible top-level domains on Google Domains. Discount pricing valid for the initial purchase term for a single domain registration only. Renewal pricing subject to change. Limit one discount per domain name registration per customer. Google reserves the right to cancel, suspend or modify part of this offer at any time without notice, for any reason in its sole discretion. Promotional code must be automatically or manually applied, is non-transferable and has no cash value. To redeem the offer, you must have or activate a Google Account. Offer ends 15 April 2022 or while supplies last.

    • Hybroid on 23/03/2022 - 09:18
      +5

      Cloudflare provide at-cost domain registration forever and have great add-on services including free levels. Would strongly recommend.

    • BigLeviathan on 23/03/2022 - 09:19
      +6

      I just transferred my personal .com domain to CloudFlare, I found their price is better than google domain. Worth checking if you are looking for one too

      • darkly on 23/03/2022 - 09:28

        I wanted to do the same but I'm not sure there's any easy way to do that from Crazy Domains

        • Diji1 on 23/03/2022 - 09:52

          Should be fine as long as it's not restricted like .com.au

      • kudoz on 23/03/2022 - 11:19

        Didn't happen to find any discount codes or anything to get around the transfer fee did you?

        • BigLeviathan on 23/03/2022 - 12:48

          There was no transfer fee when I moved to CloudFlare from ventraip. Not sure why you have been charged to transfer over

          • Kyle-K on 23/03/2022 - 14:10

            @BigLeviathan: Yeah definitely should've been a transfer fee most extensions it also adds an additional year of registration. .au is only one of the handful that can be transferred for free and CloudFlair doesn't support them yet soon though.

    • pr3ggas on 23/03/2022 - 09:39
      +1

      Another google trap.

    • [Deactivated] on 23/03/2022 - 09:43

      I used to work for a domain name company, man oh man is it a rort.

      • Diji1 on 23/03/2022 - 09:53

        Another free market failure where the fools get ripped off for someone (the registrar) making ads and using an API.

        If the theory predicted reality we should be paying tens of cents for ordinary, new domains.

        • [Deactivated] on 23/03/2022 - 10:08

          I have a client buying .tv from us, I had to explain to him one day why we were charging him $49 for a domain that cost from the registrar $9.
          He had bought I think around 5K worth of domains, we made 4K profit, he was furious but in the end I did not set the prices. I ended up leaving soon after as I kept having to deal with the same ole BS again and again.
          Same company never ever paid me any super either.

    • bigbadboogieman on 23/03/2022 - 09:51

      The feeling of getting a good bargain until you find out that it was originally supposed to be free for life…

      • JSONBourne on 23/03/2022 - 10:46

        At least a cost discourages mass domain squatting. Free domains would just put middleman over the top sitting on all the reserved domains.

    • janoski on 23/03/2022 - 11:56

      they dont support .id.au so… thanks but no thanks

      • Kyle-K on 23/03/2022 - 14:08

        Yeah you really can't beat VentraIP unfortunately for .au domain names or a good priced Synergy Wholesale re-seller.

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