# Google Cloud Domains

Source: https://lemon.domains/domain-registrars/google-cloud-domains (also as .json)

Cloud Domains is Google Cloud's domain registration service, used from the Google Cloud console, CLI or API with billing on the Cloud project. Since Squarespace bought Google Domains in 2023, Squarespace is the registrar of record for domains bought through Cloud Domains.

- Website: https://cloud.google.com/domains
- Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States
- Ownership: Part of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL)
- Type: Web host that registers domains
- Part of: Google
- ICANN accreditation: Not ICANN-accredited
- Site languages: English
- API: Integrated. Integrated with Lemon Domains (https://cloud.google.com/domains/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.registrations/list)

## Services and extensions (checked October 2026)

- Domain registration, DNS hosting
- Extensions sold: over 300
- WHOIS privacy: Included at no extra cost

## Support

- Channels: Help center
- Contact: https://cloud.google.com/domains/docs

## Sources

- https://cloud.google.com/domains/docs/faq
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/domains/docs/overview
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/domains/docs/register-domain

## Google Cloud Domains history

- 2023: Squarespace buys Google Domains and becomes the registrar behind Cloud Domains.

## Domain management features (confirmed)

- Free DNS hosting
- Auto-renew
- Team members or sub-accounts

## Company sources (checked October 2026)

- https://docs.cloud.google.com/domains/docs/overview
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/domains/docs/faq
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/domains/docs/register-domain

## Transferring a domain away from Google Cloud Domains

Turn off the transfer lock with gcloud domains registrations configure management, then run gcloud domains registrations authorization-code get with the domain name.

Part of the list of domain registrars at https://lemon.domains/domain-registrars, kept by Lemon Domains, the domain portfolio manager with a domain MCP server.