As I read it, it will always continue to be possible, just not for free.
David Lang
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Jo Rhett wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't looking for an official announcement. More of a "has anyone found
that you can use your own domain with google now" ? I know of hundreds of people
with 1-account google apps domains. I shifted to Free Apps long, long before they did the
recent merger of accounts that (mostly) made all accounts equal, google or gapps either
way. It is entirely plausible that you no longer need to have gapps to use your own
domain cleanly. If so, some lopsa or google-provided howtos would be nice.
Nutshell: friendly curious, not official :)
On Dec 9, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Brent Chapman wrote:
I'm not a Google spokesperson, so I can't confirm or deny anything. Perhaps I
shouldn't have said anything in the first place, but I felt that the original
post in this thread was a little too brief for clarity, and didn't include a
link to the official announcement.
-Brent
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote:
I read this announcement and got most of what you are saying here. I'd like to
confirm: Google wants our business, but only under gmail.com going forward? If
a person can effectively use google with their private domain name, some howtos
would be useful. I tried doing this a while back and it kept exposing my gmail
account name, which is why I got a free apps account.
On Dec 8, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Brent Chapman wrote:
The naming of Google's products makes this somewhat confusing... You can read
the official announcement at
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-google-apps-for-businesses.html
, but to clarify a couple of points:
* There is still free access to Google apps like Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations,
and so forth, for individuals with a Google account (Gmail account, Google Plus account,
etc.); you access them via the "Drive" element on the menu bar when you're
logged in to pretty much any Google service.
* Google also continues to offer "Google Apps for Business", which is a for-pay
service that allows you to set up a private cloud-based instance of the Google
applications, including the ability to run Gmail with your own private domain name.
There used to be a "free" tier of the "Google Apps for Business" service, for domains of
up to 10 users; it's that "free" tier that is being discontinued for new signups (existing domains
that had already signed up are unaffected by the announcement, and will continue to be free).
-Brent (not speaking on behalf of Google, although I do work there; I manage
several of these domains myself, so I was naturally interested in this
announcement)
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
<[email protected]> wrote:
FYI
Starting yesterday, Google will not be taking any new customers for free google
apps. Existing free customers may continue using it for free, and the
commercial version still exists (of course.)
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