Google Domains was adomain name registrar and domain management service operated byGoogle.[2] It was launched in 2014 and continued to operate, mostly as abeta service, until most of its assets were acquired bySquarespace on September 7, 2023. The sale included databases of registered domains, customer accounts, and registry accreditation.
The domain registration service was accredited byICANN – theIANA number assigned by ICANN to Google LLC was 895.[6][7] This number was transferred to Squarespace after the sale in September 2023.[8][9][better source needed]
Google became a domain name registrar in 2005.[10] Google Domains was publicly launched under abeta test mode on January 13, 2015.[3]
In March 2022, Google announced that Google Domains was officially out of beta. It supported more than 300top-level domains at that time.[11]
On September 7, 2023, all Google Domains assets—including all customer accounts and approximately 10 million registered domain names—were acquired bySquarespace for about $180 million.[12][13] Squarespace announced it would transfer existing domains to its Squarespace Domains platform after a transition period.[14][15] On the same day, Google Domains stopped accepting new domain registrations (selling new domains) and started recommending users to use Squarespace directly.[16] All domains had been migrated to Squarespace by July 10, 2024.[17]
