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What The Hell Happened To The Free Version Of Google Apps?

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How about googling for it first before posting:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

Exactly - A free standard version of Google Apps For Domains is still available, they've just changed how you get to the sign up page.

"Update: It turns out Google didn’t kill the free Standard edition yet, they just made it really hard to find. You can still sign up for it here (quick, before they move it again!)."

Upton Sinclair Michael Arrington ain't.

Man I loathe TechCrunch. FUD. Bitch first, check facts later.

HackerNews needs to enable downvotes for certain domains.

Can we please stop linking to Techcrunch?

I just signed up my domain to the free edition this morning.

To be clear, this is talking about google apps for domains.

Which is a shame because I know a lot of people who use it to host email for their personal domains. I would think that most companies using it for corporate mail can swing the $50/year.

And it makes a lot of sense for a lot of small businesses. My old boss/company could have saved a ton of cash had he just migrated to Google Apps instead of paying a part-time IT admin to maintain the MSFT Small Business Server / Exchange server.

I've got a couple domains I use it for, and love the free version.

Hehe, they got me too some 6 months ago. But it's still there, and fortunately I haven't heard of any plans to close it.

They do mention somewhere that the free edition is for non-businesses, but I don't know how serious they are about this.

What is going to happen to those of us already using it for free?

Exactly. I wouldn't mind too much if new users cost $50 / year or they began charging after 10 users (I have plenty of friends who just have a single email under Google Apps for your domain)

It would be a real shame to to lose this, I use it on 3 of my domains - and was hoping to bring it to a charity I work with too. It's a great solution, and very cheap.

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