Pricing coverage: 6 of 20 registrars have prices read from the registrar's own source, fetched live where one is published. The remaining 14 are labelled row by row and are never ranked against verified prices. MarkMonitor, CSC Corporate Domains and Com Laude are excluded from that count because they quote under contract and publish no retail price. See data sources for a row-by-row breakdown, the methodology , or fetch /data/verification-status.json . Clean experience and free privacy, ideal for Squarespace site owners. Limited for developers and investors. Score breakdown How to read these scores. The numeric scores on this page are derived from our published methodology weights applied to documented registrar facts. They are not the output of hands-on purchase, transfer and support testing, which we have not yet run. Treat them as a structured summary of the facts, not as a test result. The facts and prices underneath them each carry their own source and date. Why this score? Clean experience and free privacy, ideal for Squarespace site owners. Limited for developers and investors. Reading the labels. Measured Derived from pricing we collected and verified ourselves. From published documentation Traced to a fact recorded from the registrar's own published material. Editorial judgement A judgement. We have not published a measurement behind this number. Squarespace site owners Power DNS users Domain investors These figures are sample data, not read from this registrar's own pricing page, so they are not on a refresh cadence, they are flagged for review past 90 days instead. 7 of 7 rows are individually past the 90-day review line. Freshness describes when we last read a price, not whether it is right. How we check prices · freshness data How we verified this pricing Re-checked by manual read in a real browser on 2026-08-19: domains.squarespace.com renders fully but publishes only a range ('$11 - $130') with no per-TLD table, no renewal figures, and no public pricing API: a price appears only after a specific domain is chosen in the search flow. The original finding stands; rows remain sample. Source: https://domains.squarespace.com/ Blocked by: No per-TLD table published: range only ($11 - $130), confirmed in-browser 2026-08-19 Renewal pricing explained We have not verified any Squarespace Domains price against its own published pages, so there is no renewal analysis here to give. The general point still applies: a first-year price is paid once and a renewal is paid every year after it, so the renewal is the figure that decides what a domain costs to hold. Until we can read this registrar's prices ourselves, compare the renewal column in its cart against the verified figures on our cheapest-renewals page rather than against its advertised first year. Squarespace Domains documents its WHOIS privacy as: Free, included. Included at no charge is the right answer in 2026, and it is close to universal among reputable registrars: which makes a registrar that still charges for it the outlier rather than this one being generous. What privacy does is replace your name, postal address, phone number and email in the public record with the provider's forwarding details. What it does not do is hide the registration from the registrar, the registry, or a court order, and it does not stop a domain being linked to you by other means. Since GDPR, most registries also redact personal data by default regardless of what the registrar sells, so for many extensions the privacy product is a smaller addition than it was. Our WHOIS-privacy sub-score for Squarespace Domains is 9.0, based on the documented policy. Squarespace Domains describes its DNS as: Basic but reliable managed DNS. We have not recorded ALIAS or ANAME support here. That matters if you need the apex of your domain to point at a platform hostname rather than an IP address, which most hosted site builders and store platforms ask for: check before committing. No public API is documented, so every DNS change is a manual one: worth weighing if you manage more than a handful of domains. Remember that the registrar and the DNS host do not have to be the same company: you can keep a domain here and point its nameservers anywhere. Our DNS sub-score for Squarespace Domains is 7.0, based on documented capability rather than measured resolution times. Security and 2FA Squarespace Domains documents TOTP and SMS for account access. An authenticator app and SMS are not equivalent, even though they sit side by side in the same settings page. SMS can be redirected by a SIM swap, which is a known and repeatedly used route into domain accounts; codes from an app cannot. If both are enabled, the account is only as strong as the weaker one, so turn SMS off once the app is working. Neither method resists a convincing phishing page: both produce a code a human can be persuaded to type somewhere else. Hardware security keys do resist it, and this registrar does not document support for them. Whatever the method, the registrar account is the domain's real perimeter: anyone inside it can change nameservers and start a transfer. Turn on the strongest option offered, keep the registrant email on an account with its own two-factor, and check the domain lock is set. Our security sub-score for Squarespace Domains is 8.0, based on the methods it documents rather than on a penetration test. Support channels Squarespace Domains publishes 2 support channels: email, live chat (squarespace account). Live channels are available but not around the clock, so a problem outside business hours waits. For a domain that fronts a business, weigh that against the price difference before choosing on cost alone. What we have not done, and will not imply: we have not timed responses on these channels or run test tickets. The support sub-score of 7.5 reflects the channels published and their stated hours, not measured response times. Treat published availability as a claim by the registrar until someone has tested it. Transfer experience Transferring a .com in to Squarespace Domains costs $11.00 against its renewal of $20.00. For most gTLDs a transfer adds a year to the registration rather than resetting it, so that fee buys a year rather than only paying for the move. The process itself is the same everywhere and the constraints are ICANN's, not the registrar's: unlock the domain, get the authorization code from the losing registrar, and enter it at the gaining one. A gTLD cannot be transferred within 60 days of a registration, a previous transfer, or a change to the registrant contact, that last one catches people who tidy up their WHOIS details first and then find the domain locked for two months. We have not run a transfer in or out of Squarespace Domains, and we do not have testing notes for it. Everything above is computed from prices we verified or from ICANN's published transfer policy, not from watching a transfer complete. TLD and ccTLD coverage Focused on popular gTLDs and key ccTLDs Developer and agent access No public domain API. Domains registered here are managed only through the Squarespace dashboard, so programmatic or agent-driven management is not possible. Figures in brackets are Open Domain Data's 2026-Q3 landscape edition, over the 7 registrars it measures, not the registrars this site tracks. Full API-access comparison . No official MCP, and none is possible: Squarespace Domains has no public domain API at all, so domains are managed only through the Squarespace dashboard. Which registrars publish an official MCP Squarespace Domains API-capability facts and the cohort figures beside them derived from Open Domain Data (CC BY 4.0), dataset version registrar_api_capabilities@2026.06, registrar_landscape@2026-Q3, agent_capability_signals@2026.05 . Open Domain Data publishes neutral facts under an open license; it does not produce or endorse this site's scores and rankings. DNS capabilities

Upstream facts from Open Domain Data, shown with the source behind each field. These are capabilities, not our assessment: our own view of Squarespace Domains 's DNS is in the score breakdown . CAA records are supported by every registrar in this dataset, Squarespace Domains included, so the row is stated here once rather than repeated as a distinction that does not exist. Record last checked upstream: 2026-06-25 · overall basis: From public sources Open Domain Data publishes this table for 7 of the 23 registrars this site tracks. A registrar missing from it has not failed a check: the upstream catalog has not covered it yet. See the data page for the dataset versions in use. Squarespace Domains DNS capability facts (DNSSEC, record types, minimum TTL, API record management) derived from Open Domain Data (CC BY 4.0), dataset version dns_capabilities@2026.06 . Open Domain Data publishes neutral facts under an open license; it does not produce or endorse this site's scores and rankings. RDAP is the structured, JSON successor to WHOIS, and this is where Squarespace Domains answers it. Look a domain up without querying it yourself, or read what RDAP is . Every registrar in this dataset, Squarespace Domains included, reports the same two things, so they are stated here once rather than as rows implying a difference: conformance rfc7483 , the base RDAP response format , and an endpoint published in the IANA registrar-ids registry, which is what makes it discoverable without knowing it in advance. Record last checked upstream: 2026-06-25 Open Domain Data publishes this table for 7 of the 23 registrars this site tracks. A registrar missing from it has not failed a check: the upstream catalog has not covered it yet. See the data page for the dataset versions in use. Squarespace Domains RDAP endpoint facts derived from Open Domain Data (CC BY 4.0), dataset version rdap_metadata@2026.06 . Open Domain Data publishes neutral facts under an open license; it does not produce or endorse this site's scores and rankings. Abuse and security contacts Where to report a compromised domain, phishing, or a vulnerability. Upstream facts from Open Domain Data, with the record each was read from. "Not established" and "not published" are different facts and are kept apart here. Two registrars in this dataset return an HTTP 403 anti-bot response at the security.txt path, which is not the same as the path returning 404. Every ICANN-accredited registrar is required to publish an abuse contact and to act on reports; where this table cannot show one, check ICANN Lookup for the registrar abuse contact in the registry record. Record last checked upstream: 2026-06-25 Open Domain Data publishes this table for 7 of the 23 registrars this site tracks. A registrar missing from it has not failed a check: the upstream catalog has not covered it yet. See the data page for the dataset versions in use. Squarespace Domains abuse and security contact facts derived from Open Domain Data (CC BY 4.0), dataset version registrar_security_contacts@2026.06 . Open Domain Data publishes neutral facts under an open license; it does not produce or endorse this site's scores and rankings. Clean, modern interface Tight integration with Squarespace websites Free WHOIS privacy Limited advanced DNS controls Who owns Squarespace Domains Squarespace Domains is part of Squarespace . Not historically a registrar. It acquired Google's domain business in 2023, around ten million domains and the ICANN accreditations, and migrated those customers through 2024, which is why a great many people hold domains at a registrar they never chose. See the full registrar ownership map Compare and switch Squarespace Domains alternatives, compared with data → Squarespace Domains vs Namecheap Squarespace Domains vs Porkbun Squarespace Domains vs GoDaddy Squarespace Domains vs Spaceship Switch from Squarespace Domains to Cloudflare Registrar Switch from Squarespace Domains to Porkbun Switch from Squarespace Domains to Namecheap Switch from Squarespace Domains to Dynadot Switch from Squarespace Domains to NameSilo Switch from Squarespace Domains to Hover 2026-08-19 Re-read manually and re-confirmed as publishing only a price range, with no per-TLD table to collect. 2026-07-15 Stayed unverified: flat-pricing marketing page with no per-TLD figures. Blocker documented in registrars.json and pricing-sources.json. 2026-04-10 : Full review refreshed. 2026-05-12 : Pricing re-checked. Corrections are applied within 7 business days and noted here: corrections policy . Site-wide record: /changelog/ . https://www.squarespace.com/domains , pricing, read from this page ICANN accredited registrar list , accreditation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarespace , company background https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/methodology/ , how this score was produced Registrar identity facts (name, website, country, accreditation status) derived from Open Domain Data (CC BY 4.0), dataset version registrars@2026.06 . Open Domain Data publishes neutral facts under an open license; it does not produce or endorse this site's scores and rankings.