Handling the Largest Domains Migration, Ever!
summary
Squarespace acquires Google Domains assets and builds a migration pipeline that moves 9+ million domains into a new registrar supporting 360+ TLDs, a reseller API, and full feature parity (DNSSEC, forwarding, glue records). Teams implement a streaming API, event-driven orchestration on Kafka, audit logging, Stripe tokenized billing handoff and cloud DNS account transfers. Lock windows shrink to 10 seconds and throughput climbs from 3.2 domains per second up to 12 domains per second, enabling weeks with 2.5M+ domains migrated and the reseller SLA goal met.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:48Domains
- 6:15Google Domains Acquisition
- 12:59The Migration Engine
- 13:54Event Driven Architecture
- 15:29Impact on Customers
- 17:12Three Migrations
- 19:42Cohorts
- 20:46Features
- 23:51Plan
- 25:15Speed
- 26:31Time
- 27:24The Good News
- 29:18The Numbers
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