Squarespace Domains

Squarespace Domains, The Google Domains book, flat-priced at around US$20 with privacy included. Squarespace acquired Google Domains in 2023 and migrated the customer base onto its own platform. The result is a calm, flat-priced registrar, one price at registration and renewal, WHOIS privacy included, a short curated TLD list and no upsell theatre. It is roughly double Cloudflare for the same .com, and the product exists to feed Squarespace's site builder rather than to compete on domain price. Built by Squarespace. Founded 2003.

We track it in 1 comparison, Domain registrars, so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 14 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it gives ground.

• Bulk management, No. Porkbun records Yes.
• Public API, No. Cloudflare Registrar records Yes.
• Ownership, pe-owned, 12th of 14. Namecheap records independent.
• .com first year, $20 /yr, 14th of 15. Crazy Domains records $3.5 /yr.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 23 of 25 tracked fields carry a value for Squarespace Domains, and 1 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-06-30. Every figure keeps its own provenance, measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported, and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is Cloudflare Registrar. Squarespace Domains is ahead on Support quality (3 against 2) and TLDs offered (300 TLDs against 250 TLDs). Cloudflare Registrar takes At-cost pricing (Yes against No) and Public API (Yes against No). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster, see Squarespace Domains alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

Squarespace

Founded

2003

Fields we track

23 of 25

Last verified

2026-06-30

The least irritating of the expensive registrars, and where most former Google Domains customers ended up by inertia. Flat pricing and no upsell theatre, but you are paying a site-builder company's margin on a commodity.

Bulk management

○No15th of 15

Inferred

Public API

○No13th of 15

Inferred

Ownership

pe-owned12th of 14

Inferred

Upsell aggression

27th of 15

Inferred

.com first year

$20 /yr14th of 15

Inferred

Free WHOIS privacy

●Yes1st of 15

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-06-30source

TLDs offered

300 TLDs9th of 14

Inferred

Renewal jump

$0 /yr1st of 15

Inferred

Squarespace Domains is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• You already run the site on Squarespace.
• One flat annual price with privacy included and no promotions to track.
• Inherited Google Domains registrations you cannot be bothered moving.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Bulk management. Squarespace Domains records No on the Domain registrars table. Porkbun records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Public API. Squarespace Domains records No on the Domain registrars table. Cloudflare Registrar records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Ownership. Squarespace Domains records pe-owned, 12th of 14 in the Domain registrars roster. Namecheap records independent on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• .com first year. Squarespace Domains records $20 /yr, 14th of 15 in the Domain registrars roster. Crazy Domains records $3.5 /yr on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• TLDs offered. Squarespace Domains records 300 TLDs, 9th of 14 in the Domain registrars roster. Netim records 900 TLDs on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 2 of the 25 fields we track for Squarespace Domains are still blank: .com.au renewal and Domains managed. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.