How to Check When a Squarespace (ex-Google Domains) Domain Expires

If you're looking for a domain that used to live in Google Domains, it's now managed by Squarespace — and the place to check its expiration date has moved with it. Here's where to look today, what the migration changed, and a way to see the date without logging in at all.

What happened to Google Domains

Google sold Google Domains to Squarespace; the acquisition closed on September 7, 2023, and Squarespace finished migrating domains into its own system around July 2024. If you had a Google Domains account, a Squarespace account was created for you (using your Google Domains email), and management now happens in the Squarespace dashboard. Old Google Domains renewal prices were honored for about a year — migrated domains renew at Squarespace's standard rates after September 7, 2024.

Method 1: In your Squarespace account

1. Sign in and go to the domains dashboard at account.squarespace.com/domains.
2. Each domain lists its date in the Expiration column.
3. Click a domain to open its domain details page for more, including the renewal cost shown next to the renewal date.

One important exception: if you originally bought the domain through Google Workspace signup (rather than Google Domains directly), billing, auto-renew, and cancellation are still handled by Google Workspace, not the Squarespace domains dashboard. Those domains won't behave like the rest — you'll need to manage them through Google.

Method 2: A public lookup (no login needed)

The expiration date is public, so you don't need the dashboard to see it. Enter the domain into our free domain expiry checker to get the registration expiry date and confirm the registrar in seconds — handy if you're not sure which account a former Google Domains name ended up in. It's a standard WHOIS/RDAP lookup under the hood; how to check when a domain expires covers the method in full.

How Squarespace auto-renewal behaves

Squarespace-managed domains are set to auto-renew by default, and the card on file is charged 15 days before the listed expiration date. You'll get notifications 30 days before the renewal term begins and 15 days before the charge date (and one on the expiration date itself if auto-renew is off). You can turn auto-renew off with the toggle in the domains dashboard or the domain details page.

Two migration-era gotchas worth knowing:

• ACME TLS/SSL certificates no longer auto-renew on migrated domains — so an SSL certificate you set up under Google Domains can lapse silently even while the domain itself is fine.
• Dynamic DNS (DDNS) no longer auto-updates, and some custom-nameserver setups lost Google's built-in forwarding in the move.

As always, auto-renewal only works if the payment method is valid, and the notice goes to your account email — so a reissued card or a filtered inbox can still let a domain slip.

Don't rely on a single dashboard

If your domains are split across Squarespace and other registrars — very common for anyone who scrambled during the Google Domains migration — no single dashboard shows everything, and the lapsing SSL-cert behavior above makes an independent check especially valuable. Monitoring expiry independently of the registrar puts every domain and certificate in one place with alerts weeks ahead. That's what DomainChest does — add your Squarespace domains once and it tracks their registration and SSL expiry for you. See also what happens when an SSL certificate expires and how to never let a domain expire.