I don't like businesses I haven't specifically chosen managing my digital affairs and buyouts put me in that position. Plus I don't trust Squarespace at all.

Fortunately this is the last Google product I was still using, so after this migration I will be 100% google free, which will be a great day.

Sounds like you had a very deep relationship with Google that went beyond just a simple registration of a domain name.

I don't know Squarespace as a company, but looking at the wikipedia entry, they are a publicly-traded American company on the NYSE and appear to have removed websites that promoted bigotry or hate, etc. so how bad could they really be? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarespace

> ...appear to have removed websites that promoted bigotry or hate, etc.

This is exactly the problem. I don't go to a domain registrar to be my parent and/or make social decisions for me. I go there to register domains and manage DNS records, that's it. That Squarespace management felt the need to assert themselves into that process with social contagion related matters is deeply concerning and frankly, a deal breaker for me. It'd be like AT&T cancelling your phone service because they didn't like the content of your conversations.

Imagine if you were still a freelance website designer or something for small businesses and now your biggest low cost competitor just bought all of your domains with the intention to convert as many as possible to customers. Very cool Google.