Ask HN: Is cloud domain API going to be shutdown?

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I understand that Google is selling domain business to Sqarespace.

But it is not clear what is going to happen with https://domains.googleapis.com/

(I’m not talking about Google domain express checkout api)

I was not able to find anything on cloud console.

It is probably going to get converted/transferred over into Squarespace's API ecosystem, brush up on theirs to be safe.

High likeliness, though, that they will keep the Google API very similar, or even the same.

What I find hilarious about this is that Google introduced the .zip domain and then shutdown their registrar a week later.

Yeah there is likely tremendous backlash from this, and now they want to drop it off. The phishing reports discussing .zip highly likely clash with Mandiant's report-writing.

Mandiant: ".zip is bad, stupid idea" Google: "We own Mandiant, and yeah." Mandiant: "Google dumb, why they own us?" Google: "We sell our entire domains solution"

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