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lpgauth on June 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squaresp...

It’s pretty crazy that you can’t setup a custom 3rd party name server. I can’t even transfer my domain from one Cloudflare account to another without transferring my domain to another registrar…

1una on June 16, 2023 | [–]

That's the strategy. They offer "at-cost pricing", but force you to use their own name server.

account42 on June 16, 2023 | [–]

Kinda feels like restrictions on what you can submit to the registry (NS and glue records) should be something ICANN forbids.

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