Google unexpectedly sells its domain-hosting enterprise to Squarespace

Google Domains is a fast and easy solution to get a jumpstart on constructing your web site, however now the corporate will quickly go away that enterprise. As we speak, Squarespace introduced that it’ll purchase roughly 10 million domains from the search large. The corporate expects the transaction to shut within the third quarter of 2023.

Beneath the buying settlement, Squarespace says that it’ll honor present buyer pricing for a minimum of 12 months following the completion of the acquisition. The corporate claims that it’ll use Google’s infrastructure to make sure a “seamless switch of domains.”

As soon as all the things is about and carried out, Squarespace will develop into the unique accomplice for anybody seeking to buy a site alongside their Google Workspace area. For present clients, Squarespace says that it’ll present billing and assist for Google Workspace clients who’ve already bought domains via Google Domains. However as time goes on and as subscriptions begin to renew, these clients will seemingly be compelled emigrate to Squarespace’s billing system.

Squarespace is already a behemoth within the web sites and area area, so it’s not stunning it had an curiosity in buying Google Domains. It’s a bit extra stunning that Google is promoting, although the corporate is infamous for abandoning established merchandise at any time. In the meantime, Squarespace is consistently including new options to its platform, together with the flexibility so as to add a “Members Space” (extra generally often known as a paywall) to new and present websites.