Google sells its domain registration business. In a surprising announcement today, website building platform Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) announced that it’s buying Google Domains, Google’s domain name registrar. The purchase price is $180 million, and JPMorgan Chase Bank is providing financing for part of the purchase. Google launched its domain registrar in 2014, originally calling it […]
Well fuck me I guess. I only used this due to the ease of access and nice UI. Anyone know of better alternatives?
I personally use cloudns as DN server. It’s fine. It was good before a lot of other services were developed. No idea what the kids are using these days. But cloudns gives me full control over records, decent enough interface, 2fa, and has an acme/letsencrypt API.
I buy the domains from whomever, and change the NS records to cloudns. This bit is messy, but I also have geo-located domains that only some registrars can manage.
Cloudflare is well known, and have their own registrar.
I’m sure Amazon has similar.
I’ve heard namecheap and porkbun are decent.
Like I said, no idea what the cool kids are using
I feel like this gets asked a lot on homelab and selfhosted over on reddit. Some google-fu will probably help.