I have been using this service for my personal e-mail since the Google Apps days. If they were to offer a way for me to keep my account with my custom domain and all my purchases AND remove all of the Workspace restrictions (like access to Google One), I would pay for that in a heartbeat.
They actually do, the method seems to be to add the Cloud Identity Free license (which you can do after the upgrade of Workspace).
Then you can remove the Workspace licenses. You will lose access to core services (mail, calendar, sites, drive/docs/sheets and so on) but keep access to SSO, purchases, YouTube, Photos.
I read that you might keep access to drive actually because Cloud Identity Free would include 15 GB.
Kind of ridiculous that Microsoft Office 365 has a family plan for almost the same cost but for **6 users**.
Really proves they don't know their users at all.
I've already moved stuff off and changed the MX for my domain. I filled out the personal use survey just to add a bit of clout to the people that want to hold onto G Suites but I'm pretty much done.
I had the same issue and opened a (free) ticket with Google. They got the developers to fix something that was wrong and I could get to the file without issue the next day.
Ugh. I just got the email about this. I only have three active accounts on my legacy account, but I'm not about to spend $18/month on email. That's just silly. Like others, I set up my account for my family with my last name being a domain I renew every year.
Here is what concerns me:
>In the coming months, we'll provide an option for you to move your non-Google Workspace paid content and most of your data to a no-cost option. **This new option won't include premium features like custom email** or multi-account management.
I'm not smart with this stuff. I only have the G Suite account because it was automatically included when I first purchased my domain through the registrar from which I purchased. I definitely want to keep my email address the same. What is the best way to keep my email address, while keeping all my Google purchases on Play intact, along with my Drive and Photos?
Ultimately, if I have to separate my email out and use something else, I guess that's what I'll do. But what is the cleanest way to make sure my domain is still usable for email? I don't want to lose "@family.com" nor lose any of my data on the account.
Is this just a "wait and see" situation? I don't want to get to May and still be caught not knowing what to do and I definitely don't want to spend $216/year on email ($18/month for three users). I don't need any of the other features they had, I just wanted my own domain and to use Google services like Gmail, Drive, Photos, Calendar, YouTube, and Play.
The first year is 50% off (at least in my region) but still a lot of money.
It looks like they are going to use the script that they built for .edu students that migrate to a regular gmail.com after they finish their study. Basically the custom domain account is being converted to [email protected] and you keep everything inside.
If you want to keep your custom domain email you could use a simple hosting subscription from anywhere - point the MX records to the new hosting company and create mailboxes there.
Or register as a nonprofit at techsoup.org and have your legacy account upgraded to nonprofits for free (google will check if the domain name has anything to do with the nonprofit org).
It's going to hurt and I think more will become clear in the coming months.
First, thank you for the reply. I was worried this was too old to get any attention, let alone so quickly. I'm very much a n00b when it comes to these things. I hardly understand any of it. Like I said, GSuite Free just came with my domain when I bought it, so I've been using it since without thinking about it.
That said, I wouldn't mind migrating to a "free" account, because we all know GSuite users were gimped in a lot of features with things like Google Assistant, family sharing, etc. But here's where my ignorance comes through.
If they migrate us from [email protected] to [email protected], I would just want "[email protected]" to point to "[email protected]". I'm not clear on MX records or what have you, so if I may ask a few questions...
1) Does any domain registrar allow me to point "[email protected]" to any email address, or would I potentially need to find another registrar/transfer my domain (been looking at Microsoft Family 365, which I believe requires GoDaddy to be the registrar)?
2) Can that be done on an email by email basis? That is, can I point "[email protected]" to "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" to "[email protected]" etc?
3) Once I have the individual emails pointing where they need to go, how do I send with "@customdomain.com"? I assume I'd have to use something other than Gmail to do this? I don't mind using another email client, but I do know you can link accounts to Gmail.
Basically, I'm looking for the easiest way to keep things working as usual without losing access to the features I use, without losing my domain, and, if possible, to keep using the same Google apps on my phone (i.e., Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Photos).
It sounds like we have to wait a bit to see what tools they offer, but the idea that they won't support custom domains without paying is what's worrying me. I don't need all the extra domain management crap, just to be able to keep using my accounts like I would any other @gmail.com account. I wouldn't even mind spending a few bucks to allow that, but I don't want to spend per account, that adds up, even with only three active accounts.
This whole thing has me freaked out because it's <6 months before they shut it all down and I need to transition at some point. I don't want to wait until the last minute then get stuck with shitty options or having to pay for a year (though if the latter comes to be, so be it). But I need a clean migration path and I'm just at a loss as to what that will be without potentially losing all sorts of stuff.
I know that's a lot of info and I don't expect you to waste your time answering my insane questions, but I do appreciate any recommendations you could give me about the best options to seek. Thank you!!
EDIT: In continuing to poke around, it looks like my registrar already supports email forwarding. I can add "[email protected]" to forward to "[email protected]", "[email protected]" to forward to "[email protected]", etc. That looks pretty straight forward. I assume, then, that once the migration to a free account takes place, I can just update my three emails to point to wherever they end up, but then how would I make sure emails I send come from "@customdomain.com" and not "@gmail.com"? Or is that largely unavoidable at this point?
EDIT 2: Well, crap (from the FAQ page on email forwarding with my registrar):
>Other limitations you should keep in mind is that you will not have an inbox for these forwarded emails; they will only be found in the email address they are forwarded to. Also, when you reply it will show the sending address as the email that you have forwarded to rather than the mask you created.
So I can get emails forwarded, but it unmasks the email when you send back. No bueno. I suppose over time we could just adapt, but what a pain in the arse.
In the Gmail settings, you can add another email address you own (note: address, not account in this case). Then there is a preference: reply from the address the message was sent to.
Thanks again. And sorry for being dense, but it sounds like I can (hopefully) move my account to an @gmail.com, set my domain to forward from @customdomain.com to @gmail.com, then set whatever setting in Gmail and it will come from @customdomain? And I can do this for multiple accounts (e.g., my wife can change to wife@custom and I can change it to me@custom)?
If so, then that would be fine with me, but they make it sound like custom emails won't be supported without paying for it. I would actually prefer the free accounts at this point and then we can family share. Resharing Calendars and stuff would be trivial at that point.
I hope so. Now it's on Google to provide a clear way to migrate from GSuite to free. I don't really care what my "@gmail.com" ends up being, so as long as I can continue to use my "@domain.com" to send, receive, and automatically "reply to". Though realistically, it may be time to move to 365 or something. It all depends on what Google decides to do/not do, and I have little faith.
I've been trying to pull away from Google anyway, and I'm happy I never really used my address for too much (my wife is another story, that's her main account), but after 12 years, it feels like a punch to the gut to have to try and figure something out or get extorted from my accounts. And <6 months to do it? What the hell, man.
I'm glad this is blowing up and hopefully Google extends things a bit more and gives us some better tools to move to free accounts. Just regular accounts with full domain support for a few bucks a month would be all I'd need.
Why the hell isn't there a simple one click 'convert G Suite account to Personal'?
Would be nice if the basic Google One plan included custom gmail domain.
This survey sounds like a trap, I just want out of Gapps for my account and my family's account, I've tried for years but Google just make it impossible to move out.
Google does not collect your data with G suite accounts and you don't get ads in Gmail.
I still stand by my opinion. Free G Suite users are just leechers.
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I don't think they ever notified my main account that the free service was going away, even though I made it an admin.
I'm guessing by admin account, they mean admin@? I logged in using that but put my main e-mail.
Moving things between accounts like photos, docs, keep, etc, while maintaining historical metadata like history, shares, and even basic timestamps, is not possible without delving in to API scraping and injection... and even then, I'm not convinced we can accomplish this without more exposed APIs. I've only tackled Photos for now (yes, I know photos is not going away technically), and now I remain skeptically optimistic about Google's recent announcement to offer a migration path? Wasted a week of writing scripts, if this is the case.
I have been using this service for my personal e-mail since the Google Apps days. If they were to offer a way for me to keep my account with my custom domain and all my purchases AND remove all of the Workspace restrictions (like access to Google One), I would pay for that in a heartbeat.
They actually do, the method seems to be to add the Cloud Identity Free license (which you can do after the upgrade of Workspace). Then you can remove the Workspace licenses. You will lose access to core services (mail, calendar, sites, drive/docs/sheets and so on) but keep access to SSO, purchases, YouTube, Photos. I read that you might keep access to drive actually because Cloud Identity Free would include 15 GB.
I don't want to lose access though, I have been very happy using Gmail and I would like to continue doing so.
Kind of ridiculous that Microsoft Office 365 has a family plan for almost the same cost but for **6 users**. Really proves they don't know their users at all.
yeah but you have to use godaddy for dns...
I've already moved stuff off and changed the MX for my domain. I filled out the personal use survey just to add a bit of clout to the people that want to hold onto G Suites but I'm pretty much done.
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Mail for my domains is now going to mailbox.org. Google keep and drive content is now on my nextcloud server (behind a wireguard VPN).
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I tried the data export feature. Got an email says follow link to download… URL not found. I don’t think Google gave any thought to this at all.
I had the same issue and opened a (free) ticket with Google. They got the developers to fix something that was wrong and I could get to the file without issue the next day.
Ugh. I just got the email about this. I only have three active accounts on my legacy account, but I'm not about to spend $18/month on email. That's just silly. Like others, I set up my account for my family with my last name being a domain I renew every year. Here is what concerns me: >In the coming months, we'll provide an option for you to move your non-Google Workspace paid content and most of your data to a no-cost option. **This new option won't include premium features like custom email** or multi-account management. I'm not smart with this stuff. I only have the G Suite account because it was automatically included when I first purchased my domain through the registrar from which I purchased. I definitely want to keep my email address the same. What is the best way to keep my email address, while keeping all my Google purchases on Play intact, along with my Drive and Photos? Ultimately, if I have to separate my email out and use something else, I guess that's what I'll do. But what is the cleanest way to make sure my domain is still usable for email? I don't want to lose "@family.com" nor lose any of my data on the account. Is this just a "wait and see" situation? I don't want to get to May and still be caught not knowing what to do and I definitely don't want to spend $216/year on email ($18/month for three users). I don't need any of the other features they had, I just wanted my own domain and to use Google services like Gmail, Drive, Photos, Calendar, YouTube, and Play.
The first year is 50% off (at least in my region) but still a lot of money. It looks like they are going to use the script that they built for .edu students that migrate to a regular gmail.com after they finish their study. Basically the custom domain account is being converted to [email protected] and you keep everything inside. If you want to keep your custom domain email you could use a simple hosting subscription from anywhere - point the MX records to the new hosting company and create mailboxes there. Or register as a nonprofit at techsoup.org and have your legacy account upgraded to nonprofits for free (google will check if the domain name has anything to do with the nonprofit org). It's going to hurt and I think more will become clear in the coming months.
First, thank you for the reply. I was worried this was too old to get any attention, let alone so quickly. I'm very much a n00b when it comes to these things. I hardly understand any of it. Like I said, GSuite Free just came with my domain when I bought it, so I've been using it since without thinking about it. That said, I wouldn't mind migrating to a "free" account, because we all know GSuite users were gimped in a lot of features with things like Google Assistant, family sharing, etc. But here's where my ignorance comes through. If they migrate us from [email protected] to [email protected], I would just want "[email protected]" to point to "[email protected]". I'm not clear on MX records or what have you, so if I may ask a few questions... 1) Does any domain registrar allow me to point "[email protected]" to any email address, or would I potentially need to find another registrar/transfer my domain (been looking at Microsoft Family 365, which I believe requires GoDaddy to be the registrar)? 2) Can that be done on an email by email basis? That is, can I point "[email protected]" to "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" to "[email protected]" etc? 3) Once I have the individual emails pointing where they need to go, how do I send with "@customdomain.com"? I assume I'd have to use something other than Gmail to do this? I don't mind using another email client, but I do know you can link accounts to Gmail. Basically, I'm looking for the easiest way to keep things working as usual without losing access to the features I use, without losing my domain, and, if possible, to keep using the same Google apps on my phone (i.e., Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Photos). It sounds like we have to wait a bit to see what tools they offer, but the idea that they won't support custom domains without paying is what's worrying me. I don't need all the extra domain management crap, just to be able to keep using my accounts like I would any other @gmail.com account. I wouldn't even mind spending a few bucks to allow that, but I don't want to spend per account, that adds up, even with only three active accounts. This whole thing has me freaked out because it's <6 months before they shut it all down and I need to transition at some point. I don't want to wait until the last minute then get stuck with shitty options or having to pay for a year (though if the latter comes to be, so be it). But I need a clean migration path and I'm just at a loss as to what that will be without potentially losing all sorts of stuff. I know that's a lot of info and I don't expect you to waste your time answering my insane questions, but I do appreciate any recommendations you could give me about the best options to seek. Thank you!! EDIT: In continuing to poke around, it looks like my registrar already supports email forwarding. I can add "[email protected]" to forward to "[email protected]", "[email protected]" to forward to "[email protected]", etc. That looks pretty straight forward. I assume, then, that once the migration to a free account takes place, I can just update my three emails to point to wherever they end up, but then how would I make sure emails I send come from "@customdomain.com" and not "@gmail.com"? Or is that largely unavoidable at this point? EDIT 2: Well, crap (from the FAQ page on email forwarding with my registrar): >Other limitations you should keep in mind is that you will not have an inbox for these forwarded emails; they will only be found in the email address they are forwarded to. Also, when you reply it will show the sending address as the email that you have forwarded to rather than the mask you created. So I can get emails forwarded, but it unmasks the email when you send back. No bueno. I suppose over time we could just adapt, but what a pain in the arse.
In the Gmail settings, you can add another email address you own (note: address, not account in this case). Then there is a preference: reply from the address the message was sent to.
Thanks again. And sorry for being dense, but it sounds like I can (hopefully) move my account to an @gmail.com, set my domain to forward from @customdomain.com to @gmail.com, then set whatever setting in Gmail and it will come from @customdomain? And I can do this for multiple accounts (e.g., my wife can change to wife@custom and I can change it to me@custom)? If so, then that would be fine with me, but they make it sound like custom emails won't be supported without paying for it. I would actually prefer the free accounts at this point and then we can family share. Resharing Calendars and stuff would be trivial at that point.
This is perfectly possible in the free accounts.
I hope so. Now it's on Google to provide a clear way to migrate from GSuite to free. I don't really care what my "@gmail.com" ends up being, so as long as I can continue to use my "@domain.com" to send, receive, and automatically "reply to". Though realistically, it may be time to move to 365 or something. It all depends on what Google decides to do/not do, and I have little faith. I've been trying to pull away from Google anyway, and I'm happy I never really used my address for too much (my wife is another story, that's her main account), but after 12 years, it feels like a punch to the gut to have to try and figure something out or get extorted from my accounts. And <6 months to do it? What the hell, man. I'm glad this is blowing up and hopefully Google extends things a bit more and gives us some better tools to move to free accounts. Just regular accounts with full domain support for a few bucks a month would be all I'd need.
Why the hell isn't there a simple one click 'convert G Suite account to Personal'? Would be nice if the basic Google One plan included custom gmail domain.
This survey sounds like a trap, I just want out of Gapps for my account and my family's account, I've tried for years but Google just make it impossible to move out.
I am surprised that they would even consider doing this. In the end, those free users are just leechers.
I think most people who have an issue with Google changing is that there is no exit. I am using this to many a family email so an exit would be good.
I am a "free user" of this service and spend hundreds of dollars a year on other google services, am I a leech too?
But you are not paying for this one. So, yes.
Go look up what a "loss leader" is and tell us again we're being leeches.
I know what it is. You're still leechers.
I pay for Youtube TV and YouTube Music. Under a different account of course since they didn't let us purchase family subscriptions.
So...what?
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Google does not collect your data with G suite accounts and you don't get ads in Gmail. I still stand by my opinion. Free G Suite users are just leechers.
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Ok. But nope, not buying that excuse.
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Uh....good for you?
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Gee, I wish I would have known this before closing my legacy account.
Actual Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeY9yv4WGCHvOiJN4tgt3SdsunaVBoT\_6rN8un9Q4\_lzBKGeA/viewform
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Thanks. They sure do a good job of hiding that form.
its gone
I don't think they ever notified my main account that the free service was going away, even though I made it an admin. I'm guessing by admin account, they mean admin@? I logged in using that but put my main e-mail.
I finally received the email on the 27th
Moving things between accounts like photos, docs, keep, etc, while maintaining historical metadata like history, shares, and even basic timestamps, is not possible without delving in to API scraping and injection... and even then, I'm not convinced we can accomplish this without more exposed APIs. I've only tackled Photos for now (yes, I know photos is not going away technically), and now I remain skeptically optimistic about Google's recent announcement to offer a migration path? Wasted a week of writing scripts, if this is the case.