While my team and I were already getting progressively more skeptical of Google products for all the often retread reasons, the Google Domains issue in particular solidified my team's feelings as well into a single example as well.

I know there are SLAs, that Domains wasn't necessarily targeted at the same audience, etc. But, I'm guessing lots of folks got burned by it and I don't know how to justify trusting Google at this point. Given their struggles with their reputation and cloud offering, that situation and how they handled it still blows my mind.

That was a poor decision. Every other cloud provider has domain support. Just left my CTO role at a public company to do a another startup, GCP wasnt even in the running. It was between Azure and AWS.

Also the first company i didnt pick GSuite or whatever they are calling it now because they fail to innovate on it. Office365 has been beating it in feature launches like adding an AI copilot and AI generated meeting summaries. Spend less effort renaming products and more time building features.

Google needs to fire their leadership. They will be the next IBM if they dont.