[talideon]

As a former domain registrar, I would get the authcode, unlock the domains, and transfer them away as soon as possible. It's been a while since I read the RAA (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-20...), but it's rather extraordinary to put a domain on clientHold, which is what I assume they did to you, outside of non-payment or some kind of legal dispute.

[_jal]

Srsly. I would love to hear about what Google told you.

...I don't host any DNS at Google, and if this is actually not spin, now I never would.

Not that I trusted Google before, but good lord, this is egregious.

[Ayesh]

Google is the registry of some novelty TLDs as well, and you are pretty much bound to dance the way Google wants with those TLDs.