google has been sending me calendar invites for useless seminars for months. i finally took a moment to unscrubsibe, and the URL it took me to was fucking rsvp.withgoogle.com. even fucking google can't control themselves. these companies just have to register useless and confusing domains, even when they control 2/3 of the internet.
there's no way this is a "we're buying the service from a third party and didn't want to cede control of a subdomain to them" or "someone didn't have the authority to talk to our DNS person so they just did the shadow-IT thing and went to godaddy" situation. it's fucking google, there is no reason this had to happen. i've never seen anything else from them that wasn't a subdomain off google dot com.
to be clear, i'm not saying someone couldn't get access to create a subdomain due to bureaucracy, I'm just saying there's absolutely no imaginable reason that should have been the case, since this is a webapp company. i can see how it happens at chase bank but when your entire business, full stop, is making webpages, how the fuck would you not have a robust and straightforward system for this need
anyway, i looked up the domain just to see if anything else used it other than this one feature. got no useful results, but did find this jackoff yelling at someone and i feel like it really sums it all up. "uhm, why wouldn't you expect a company that has thousands of products on a single domain to nonetheless register another domain for no obvious reason. dumbass. loser"
