Squarespace (ex-Google Domains) domain renewal reminders: how they work and how agencies avoid missing them

Updated 21 October 2026

If your agency manages client domains at Squarespace (ex-Google Domains), the registrar's own reminders are only part of the picture. Here's what Squarespace (ex-Google Domains) documents, and where the gaps usually are for agencies.

What Squarespace (ex-Google Domains) documents

• On 7 September 2023 Squarespace acquired all Google Domains registrations and customer accounts. Migrated domains are managed in Squarespace's domains dashboard.
• Squarespace gave domain owner permissions to the last person responsible for payment, and domain manager permissions to other contributors. For an agency, that means the "owner" may now be the client or a former employee.
• Squarespace domains renew automatically on the payment method on file. It says it emails a reminder 15 days before an annual subscription renews.
• Domains showing "Reseller: Google" are managed from the Google Workspace Admin console instead.
• Squarespace lists ACME TLS certificates on migrated domains as unsupported: existing certificates work until expiry but won't renew.

The ICANN baseline

For gTLDs such as .com, every ICANN-accredited registrar must send at least two reminders before expiry, roughly one month and one week before, plus one notice within five days after expiry. Reminders go to the registered name holder.

Where agencies get caught out

• Reminders go to the registrant, not you. If the client is the registrant, the agency may never see them.
• Auto-renew depends on a working payment method. An expired card means a failed renewal.
• Domains are spread across accounts. One client at Squarespace (ex-Google Domains), another at a different registrar, a third in the client's own login.

Agency checklist for migrated Google Domains

1. Find which client domains were on Google Domains.
2. Confirm who is now the Squarespace owner, and that the payment method works.
3. Check any hosts that relied on Google's ACME certificates.
4. Add every domain to one tracked list.

Tracking Squarespace (ex-Google Domains) domains alongside everything else

RenewRoster reads each domain's expiry date and registrar from public RDAP/WHOIS records, so you don't need Squarespace (ex-Google Domains) logins. It alerts your team at 60, 30, 14 and 3 days and can remind the client under your agency's brand.

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Sources

• Squarespace Help: About the Google Domains migration (checked 21 Oct 2026)
• Squarespace Help: Manage automatic subscription renewals (checked 21 Oct 2026)
• Google Cloud Domains: deprecations (Squarespace purchase) (checked 21 Oct 2026)
• ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy (checked 21 Oct 2026)