Squarespace acquires assets of Google Domains, which includes approximately 10 million registered domains hosted on Google Domains.
Details:
- Squarespace announced that it is acquiring all assets of Google Domains, including the transfer of approximately 10 million domains, with the transaction expected to close by the third quarter of 2023.
- Google entered an agreement with Squarespace to transfer the assets of Google Domains.
- This news came as a huge surprise, and many users of Google Domains are not happy with the announcement. Many on Twitter stated they would transfer their domains somewhere else.
- Squarespace is a Google Workspace reseller. Customers who purchased a domain through Workspace will transition to the Squarespace billing.
- Squarespace also owns a domain registration business as well that features a domain management tool, just like any other domain name registrar, that allows one to edit the DNS. This aquisition is expected to add ten million more customers.
- Domains at Squarespace cost between $20 to $70, a much higher cost over Google Domains.
- Google domains is highly popular in the search marketing community and beyond due to it’s use and low key interface.
- Squarespace announced it’s excitement about the acquisition. Google Domains customers did not.
Source: Search Engine Journal
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