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> It's self-evident that acquisitions can happen and that data will be transferred as a result. Most most attention is typically on other aspects of how Google handles data and this seems like an attempt to latch onto that.

I mean it's not that surprising though? The better option would've been to allow the user to opt out of transfer to squarespace and move their domain to somewhere else in the meantime?

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> allow the user to opt out of transfer to squarespace and move their domain to somewhere else in the meantime

I don't mean to downplay the overall idiotic nature of this sale, but you've always been free to transfer your domains out of Google Domains at any time (or any other registrar for that matter).

The fact that Google Domains has still not sent any email to customers kind of goes against this. You can easily transfer out if you happened to hear about the sale early enough on social media.

> move their domain to somewhere else in the meantime?

Everyone can already do this.

I'm not saying its possible, I'm saying the communications should send reminders to people to decide what they want to do.

The actual acquisition is many months (possibly even a year+) away. The initial announcement they made was a legal requirement because they are both public companies. There's no reason to believe that there won't be more customer facing ones in the upcoming weeks.

Even though I work here, the lack of communications isn’t the fault of the customers that are hearing about this.

It’s not like Google didn’t know filing these notices were gonna go unnoticed.

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