Managing domains registered through Google Workspace

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Managing domains registered through Google Workspace

Last updated July 06, 2026 13:27

Identifying, managing, and getting help for the Squarespace domain you registered through Google Workspace.

Squarespace partners with Google Workspace to provide domains to new Google Workspace users. If you don't already have a domain you'd like to use when setting up a new Google Workspace account through Google, you can register a new domain through Squarespace during the setup flow. Doing so means you'll have a resold domain managed by both Google Workspace and Squarespace.

Domain resellers act as intermediaries between the registrar (in this case, Squarespace), and the customer. If you have a resold domain, you'll need to take some domain management actions through the account you have with Google Workspace instead of with Squarespace.

Note: Purchasing a domain and Google Workspace account through Google creates a new Squarespace account associated with your new Google Workspace credentials. If you already have a Squarespace account, you may wish to sign up for Google Workspace through Squarespace directly so you don't end up with multiple Squarespace accounts.

Identify your resold domain

To find out if you registered your domain through a reseller:

1. Open your domains dashboard.
2. Click the domain in question to open the domain details page.
3. If you purchased your domain from a reseller, the reseller's name appears under the domain's expiration date.

Note: If another reseller besides Google Workspace appears in your domain details page, visit Managing Squarespace domains registered through a third party reseller.

Manage your resold domain

Where you manage your domain and who you contact for support will vary depending on what you're trying to do with your domain.

Use the table below to understand where to manage your domain.

Logging into Squarespace for the first time

After submitting payment for your new domain and Google Workspace account, you can log in to Squarespace to start managing your domain:

1. If you already have an existing Squarespace account, open a new tab in your browser and log out of your existing Squarespace account. This ensures you'll log into the correct account when taking the next steps. If you don't have an existing Squarespace account, skip to step two.
2. Go to squarespace.com/login.
3. Click Continue with Google.
4. Select your new Google Workspace account and follow the prompts to continue logging in.
5. You'll be sent to your domains dashboard, where you can start managing your domain.

After the initial login process, you can log into Squarespace using your new Google Workspace account as a social login method.

Prevent account lockout after changing your Google Workspace email address

Purchasing a domain and Google Workspace account through Google creates a new Squarespace account associated with your new Google Workspace credentials. For example, if you create admin@pizza.com, you can then log in to your new Squarespace account using the admin@pizza.com Google Workspace account as a social login method.

If you then change your email in the Google Workspace Admin Console, for example, from admin@pizza.com to support@pizza.com, you’ll likely get locked out of your Squarespace account because the admin@pizza.com email address will no longer match what we have on file.

To prevent getting locked out of your Squarespace account, we don’t recommend using your custom email address as your account email address. After your Squarespace account is set up, but before changing your email address in the Google Workspace Admin Console:

1. Open your account and security settings.
2. Click Login provider.
3. Next to Google, click Disconnect.
4. Click Disconnect again to log out of Squarespace and receive an email to reset your password.
5. After setting a new password, change your account email address.
6. Now you can change your email address in your Google Workspace Admin Console without getting locked out of your Squarespace account.

I'm locked out of my Squarespace account after changing my Google Workspace email address

If you change your email address in the Google Workspace Admin Console, then try to log into Squarespace with a Google social login, your login details will no longer match what we have on file. However, Google automatically keeps your old email address as an alias, so you can log in to update the details:

1. Go to the Squarespace login page.
2. Click Can't log in?
3. Enter your previous email address.
4. Click Continue and accept the prompt to send a verification email. This will show that it’s being sent to the old address, but it'll be delivered to the new address.
5. Open the verification email that arrives and set a new password.
6. Log into Squarespace using your old email address and new password.

Because your old email address is an alias, you can continue logging into Squarespace with it and receive our emails at your new address. However, to change the way you log in:

• Update the Squarespace account email address to your new Google Workspace email address - If you've already created a separate Squarespace account associated with the new address, free up the address by changing that account’s email address or deleting the account.
• Update the Squarespace account email address to a different email address altogether.
• Switch from email login back to social login.

Verify your domain

After you successfully register your domain, we'll send you an email with the subject “[Action required] Verify your Squarespace domain contact” requesting that you confirm your domain's registration information. This email is sent to the contact email address you entered upon registration.

If you don't verify your domain registration within 15 days of registration, your domain will be suspended.

Connect your resold domain to a Squarespace site

To link your resold domain to a Squarespace site, you can connect the domain.

It's not possible to move a resold domain to a Squarespace site in the domains dashboard, because Google Workspace manages the domain's billing. If you want your domain to share billing information with your site, claim or renew your domain through Squarespace so we manage its billing, then move the domain to the site.

Connect your resold domain to a non-Squarespace site

To use your domain with a non-Squarespace site, add records to your domain's DNS settings to point the domain to the site.

Transfer domain ownership

To transfer ownership of your resold domain, move the domain to a trial site and change the ownership of the site and domain at the same time:

1. Create a new trial site under the same account as your domain.
2. Add your billing address to your new trial site. You don't need to add a payment method. Your domain will continue to renew using the payment method you added in Google Workspace. You don't have to upgrade the site when the free trial expires. You can manage your domain through your domains dashboard indefinitely even after the trial expires.
3. Contact us for help moving your domain to the trial. In your message, include the name of your domain and your trial site's built-in domain.
4. After we respond with a confirmation that we have successfully moved your domain, transfer ownership of the site to the new owner. The domain ownership transfers automatically when the site ownership changes.
5. Ask the domain's new owner to update the domain's registration information. This way, they receive notifications about the domain.

Manage your domain entirely through Squarespace

Note: If you use your Google Worskpace email address to log in to Squarespace, change it before ending your billing relationship with Google Workspace so you don't get locked out of your Squarespace account.

You can end your domain's relationship with Google Workspace and manage all aspects of your domain, including its billing, with Squarespace by taking either of these actions:

• Cancel the domain through Google Workspace and claim the domain through Squarespace
• Renew your expired domain through Squarespace

Cancel the domain with Google Workspace and claim it through Squarespace

If your resold domain is active, you can contact Google Workspace and request that they cancel their billing relationship with your domain. Then you can claim the domain through Squarespace and have Squarespace take over the billing of your domain.

After you end your domain's relationship with your reseller, your domain:

• Remains active until the end of its billing cycle
• Doesn't auto-renew with Google Workspace
• Keeps its DNS settings intact

To cancel your domain's relationship with Google Workspace and claim the domain through Squarespace:

1. If you use your Google Worskpace email address to log in to Squarespace, change it before ending your billing relationship with Google Workspace.
2. Contact Google Workspace and request that they end their billing relationship with your domain.
3. After receiving confirmation from Google Workspace that they've ended their billing relationship with your domain, log into Squarespace and open your domains dashboard.
4. Click your domain to open its domain details page.
5. Click Renew domain in the “Domain has been canceled” banner that appears at the top of your details page.
6. Follow the prompts to select a registration term and enter payment information. If your domain had time left on its registration when your reseller canceled it, you'll keep the time remaining on your registration on top of the extra year(s) you'll register through us.

Note: If you cancel your domain's billing relationship with Google Workspace but don't claim your domain through Squarespace, your domain will expire on its original expiration date and you may be unable to renew it.

Renew an expired domain through Squarespace

If your resold domain has expired, you may be able to renew the domain through Squarespace, depending on how long ago your domain expired. Renewing the domain through Squarespace ends your domain's relationship with Google Workspace and moves the management of your domain, including its billing, over to Squarespace.

To renew your expired domain through Squarespace:

1. Open your domains dashboard.
2. Click your domain to open its domain details page.
3. Click Renew domain in the “Domain has expired” banner that appears at the top of your details page.
4. Follow the prompts to select a registration term and enter payment information.

If you don't see a Renew domain button on your domain details page, it may no longer be possible to renew your domain through Squarespace. If it's available, you can register the domain through Squarespace as a new registration instead.

What happens to my domain if I cancel my Google Workspace account?

Canceling your Google Workspace account through Google doesn't automatically cancel your domain. If you no longer need your domain, you'll need to cancel the domain separately. If you decide to keep the domain, you'll continue to manage the billing of your domain with Google Workspace and the remaining domain settings with Squarespace.

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