Yes. The thing is, they announced they were "considering" a plan for personal-use domains but then didn't follow through until the switch over due date was almost upon us.
They also obfuscated the path to acknowledge you were a personal-domain user.
Obviously, they wanted everyone to just switch over to being a paying customer (which is shocking, I know, given that they're a business and all ;D).
I figured if I was going to pay, I may as well do some research.
I decided that, for my needs, the OpenSRS solution was a good fit and was a fraction of the price (~$1/mo vs ...$12ish/mo?).
IIRC, about two weeks before the cutoff they finally and made it official and you could sign up for the personal-use domain. By that time I'd already gone to the effort of finding a new solution and was annoyed at the obfuscation tactics, so I went ahead and moved.
... but I also clicked that box, so all I have to do is point my MX records back to google and I'd be back on the juice.
inanutshellus|3 years ago
They also obfuscated the path to acknowledge you were a personal-domain user.
Obviously, they wanted everyone to just switch over to being a paying customer (which is shocking, I know, given that they're a business and all ;D).
I figured if I was going to pay, I may as well do some research.
I decided that, for my needs, the OpenSRS solution was a good fit and was a fraction of the price (~$1/mo vs ...$12ish/mo?).
IIRC, about two weeks before the cutoff they finally and made it official and you could sign up for the personal-use domain. By that time I'd already gone to the effort of finding a new solution and was annoyed at the obfuscation tactics, so I went ahead and moved.
... but I also clicked that box, so all I have to do is point my MX records back to google and I'd be back on the juice.