The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?

I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.

Most often not even taking the things that made the plundered product great in the first place, unfortunately.

Most times companies do acquisitions just because they want to get a patent, or just hire the dev team with specific skills. The product for them was worthless from the beginning,

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