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post from May 24, 2024 at 2:47PM +0000 The AI data goldmine

If I was a nefarious software company, here’s how I might be thinking:AI functionality tends to require that data is sent to a centralized service for processing.This is often data that is not being shared online in any other way that is easily available for analysis: existential …

🔗 May 24, 2024 at 2:13PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

Don't get me started on Squarespace

I guess it was in early 2019 when Google announced they would be breaking thousands of development and test environments by making the ".dev" domain a thing (archive link to announcement).

Four years later they sold their entire Google Domains operation to Squarespace (archived).

And, yeah, I have two of these ".dev" domains registered and so this has now become my problem. And remains my problem! Here's the timeline so far.

April 1, 2024 - I receive my first "<domain> is now available in your Squarespace Domains account" email. I grudgingly sign in and confirm that this is real. I decide to wait until all (2) of my domains are in their system to do anything about it.
April 23, 2024 - 22 days later I received the second and final "is now available in your Squarespace Domains account" email.
May 9, 2024, I'm guessing 7pm-ish EDT - I start the process of migrating both domains to another registrar. The new registrar helps walk me through the process of unlocking the domain at Squarespace and requesting the required transfer code. To my annoyance, Squarespace informs me that they may take up to 24 hours to send the transfer code.
May 9, 2024, 11:15pm EDT - Squarespace sends the transfer codes.
May 10, 2024, 12pm-ish EDT - I enter the codes at the new registrar and pay for the transfer. About 15 minutes later, the new registrar lists the transfer as "Awaiting release from previous registrar." According to discussions I found in searching, this usually means there is a button to push on the old registrar's dashboard to approve the transfer. I check my Squarespace Domains account and cannot find any such button or indication that the transfer is happening.
May 10, 2024, 2:34pm EDT - Squarespace sends emails informing me of the pending transfer, including a "Review Request" button. Clicking on "Review Request" takes me to a page where I can cancel the transfer, but no feature for me to approve the transfer.
- I visit the Squarespace Domains dashboard for these domains and again there is no indication that the transfer is happening, much less a way to quickly approve it.
- Upon closer reading of the notification emails, I find the text: "If we do not hear from you by May 15, 2024, the transfer will proceed."