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Right? It is so silly to cut yourself off at the knees from offering a complete ecosystem.

If they really wanted to cut out the riff-raff, low-value customers, and only sell to industry, they could have just 10x the cost. Enough to make private parties go elsewhere, but corporate customers would not blink. If only to avoid filling out one more TPS report.

Bizarrely Azure does the exact same thing with Godaddy.

I read it the opposite direction - That Cloud Domains will continue to exist and for the migration period that the Google Domains product will remain a frontend to said product.

Nevertheless, the confusion around it and poor messaging, particularly the timing of this message coming over a month after the deal was first announced, is infuriating.

Yes, I believe you are correct. AWS uses Gandi in a similar way that Google Cloud will use Squarespace going forward.