Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, June 16th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Google does it again for like the 10th time just since I've been doing this podcast. What is it? You'll hear in a second.

The whole Reddit thing is simultaneously seeming to calm down and heat up again, largely thanks to Reddit's CEO. will we finally get a Bitcoin E.F.

This time and of course the weekend long-range suggestions here's what you missed

today in the world of tech. Let's just reach into the old podcast filing

cabinet here. I've got to reach way back for a file.

We go to quite a bit, but it's far away.

Let's see, the one I'm looking for,

it's a little worn from pulling it out so much,

but it's, ah, there it is.

It's stuck behind the Google made yet another chat app

slash video app file. Here it is. Let me read the file name on the tab here. Where

are my glasses? From the Never Rely on a Google product because they will just

shut it down, eventually file. Alphabet says it plans to wind down Google domains and sell all of its assets including around 10 million

domains to square space. A source says the deal is for 180 million dollars.

So bad news for all of us who have various domain names

registered via Google domains though good news for Squarespace whose stock

jumped more than 9% on the news, quoting Bloomberg. We are exceptionally proud to be chosen to serve the customers of the Google Domains business,

Anthony Kassalena, founder and chief executive officer of Squarespace said in the statement,

domains are a critical part of web infrastructure and an essential piece of

every business's online presence, end quote.

Squarespace said it will honor Google Domains, customers, renewal prices for at least 12 months

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