According to a recent announcement, Squarespace will purchase all domain registrations and associated customer accounts in Google Domains. According to the agreement, Google Domains will be closed and its assets will be transferred to Squarespace.Google Domains is shutting down
Squarespace will pay $180 million for Google Domains, which hosts around 10 million domains with the acquisition. By the way, Google Domains; It offered domain name registration, DNS hosting, DNSSEC, Dynamic DNS, domain name forwarding and e-mail forwarding services to its customers in a very simple way. Additionally, Squarespace will accept renewal requests from Google Domains customers for 12 months. There will be no interruption in the services received.
The list is growing
On the other hand, Google has a bad reputation for unexpectedly shutting down its services. So to speak, the company has turned its backyard into a cemetery for its services, which it unplugged. In this “cemetery”, there are also services with great potential at the time. There is even a site showing these services that only Google killed: “Killed by Google.”According to this site, Google has unplugged 286 services since 2006. These include important services, some of which are:
YouTube Streams: YouTube Streams, which was shut down more than 13 years ago, allowed users to chat about a YouTube video in real time while watching it together.
Google Buzz: Closed 11 years ago, Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool integrated with Gmail. He was almost 2 years old.
Jaiku: Jaiku, which was shut down 11 years ago, was a social networking, microblogging service similar to Twitter. He was almost 6 years old.
Google TV: Closed almost 9 years ago, Google TV was a smart TV platform that integrated Android and Chrome to create an interactive television layer. He lived for about 3 years.
Project Ara: Project Ara, which was terminated almost 7 years ago, was a modular smartphone project under development by Google.Google Nexus: Disbanded more than 6 years ago, the Google Nexus was Google’s flagship line of Android phones, tablets and accessories. Now there is the Pixel series.
Google Spaces: Closed more than 6 years ago, Google Spaces was an app used for group discussions and messaging. He survived only 9 months.
Chromebook Pixel: Withdrawn from the market more than 6 years ago, the Chromebook Pixel was a first-of-its-kind laptop made by Google running the Linux kernel-based Chrome OS.
Project Tango: Disbanded more than 5 years ago, Project Tango was an API for augmented reality applications and was replaced by ARCore.
Google Allo: Shut down more than 4 years ago, Google Allo was an instant messaging app for Android, iOS and Web with features like virtual assistant and encrypted mode.
Google+: Google+, which was shut down about 4 years ago, was an internet-based social network. He was almost 8 years old.
Google Fiber TV: Google Fiber TV, which was shut down more than 3 years ago, was an IPTV service bundled with Google Fiber. It has been in use for about 7 years.
Google Cardboard: Discontinued more than 2 years ago, Google Cardboard was a low-cost virtual reality (VR) platform named after the folded cardboard viewer with a smartphone embedded in it.
Google Bookmarks: Closed over a year ago, Google Bookmarks was a private web-based bookmarking service that did not integrate with other Google services.
Google Duo: Closed about a year ago, Google Duo was a video calling application that allowed people to call one of their contact lists.Google Chrome Apps: Discontinued 12 months ago, Google Chrome Apps were hosted or packaged web applications that run on the Google Chrome browser.
YouTube Go: YouTube Go, which was discontinued 10 months ago, was an app aimed at making YouTube easier to access from mobile devices in emerging markets, with features such as over-the-air video downloads for later viewing.
Google Hangouts: Google Hangouts, which was shut down 7 months ago, was a cross-platform instant messaging service.
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