Their killing of domains, selling that to Squarespace, then Squarespace selling to PE was the most incredible degradation of service I've seen in a while!
It was such a bizarre choice, I don't understand. Why wouldn't they want new businesses to come to them first? Naming a company often involves getting a domain and then paying for hosting, email, and/or other services. This all makes me think gsuite will be next on the chopping block.
> This all makes me think gsuite will be next on the chopping block.
GSuite is the most profitable part of GCP, and it's totally propping that division up. It'll be the last to go - it's a lot easier to recognize bad management.
Domains probably was expensive to maintain or understaffed for some reason, and some exec knew a guy a Squarespace.
I don't see how domains going away would suggest Google suite is near the chopping block. I doubt many major customers of GSuite even bothered with Domains. It was such a a small and bare bones business, pretty unrelated to the rest of GSuite.
Several years ago a startup owner I was friends with was doing IoT stuff. If they'd ended up choosing the Google option for their device comms they'd have been in a bad place from this. Pretty sure they went with the AWS IoT stuff though.
At this point, I wonder if there's anyone left on Earth who Google haven't screwed over in some significant way?
