I texted my business partner a link to the story yesterday about Google Domains getting sold off with the comment: "I'm so glad we decided to go with AWS over GCP".<p>A big part of selecting a cloud service provider is <i>trust</i>. You have to trust that you can build your stuff on top of theirs and they aren't going to pull the rug out from under you. Right now I don't know how anyone picking a cloud service provider can confidently go with GCP, and the only ones I see moving to GCP are those that get massive discounts for doing so.<p>I'm making a bet that in 10 years, GCP will be no more and most likely sucked up by either Azure of AWS.
I remember when the news broke a few days ago people were going "this is only the consumer product, Google Cloud won't be affected, Google is very serious about it".<p>Any bets on how long until Google Cloud is fully deprecated? If I was a customer I'd be very nervous right about now.
Our startup is using GCP exclusively but after this (we have our domains with them), we're debating wether diversify our infra now or "trust" GCP won't go away anytime soon.
It should be noted GCP still has Cloud Domains: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/domains/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cloud.google.com/domains/</a><p>It should be trivial to transfer your domains there if you don't want to deal with Squarespace.