Franklin Angulo and Divya Kamat, Squarespace
Domains remain a critical part of web infrastructure, and an essential piece of the online presence of people and businesses. In 2023, Squarespace acquired the assets behind the Google Domains business, including more than 10 million domains. Learn about the challenges of executing a migration at a scale not seen before in the domain industry.
Franklin Angulo currently leads the product & engineering teams within the Squarespace Domains organization. Before this role, he shaped the technical vision at Squarespace as its Chief Architect, built teams to scale the backend engine and data centers that power the millions of websites on the Squarespace platform, managed the teams that iterated on the features used daily by millions of Lyft riders and drivers, and worked at Amazon on route planning optimizations, shipping rate shopping and capacity planning algorithms for global inbound logistics and the Amazon Locker product. Franklin also co-founded a technology company in Costa Rica building ERP-style software for municipal governments.
Divya Kamat is an accomplished engineering leader and currently heads the engineering teams within the Squarespace Domains organization. Since joining Squarespace in 2018 as an engineer, Divya has played a pivotal role in the growth and evolution of the Domains team. She was a key contributor to the development and launch of Squarespace Registrar in 2020 and has successfully scaled the Domains team from 8 engineers to a thriving 40-person organization. Before her tenure at Squarespace, Divya worked at Microsoft, where she built highly scalable microservices to enhance the resiliency and efficiency of Azure Stack, the company’s private and hybrid cloud solution. With deep expertise in engineering leadership, scalability, and domains, Divya brings a wealth of experience to every project she undertakes.
author = {Franklin Angulo and Divya Kamat},
title = {Handling the Largest Domains Migration, Ever!},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}