How to Change Domain Name in Squarespace, Add New Website URL Easily 2026

Sign in at squarespace.com. Domain management now lives at the account level, not inside an individual site's Settings, so instead of hunting through a site's menu, click your profile icon and choose Domains, or go straight to account.squarespace.com/domains.

That page lists every domain across all your sites, whether registered through Squarespace or connected from elsewhere, and it's a single stop even if you manage more than one site. Domain changes are an account-owner action; a contributor invited only to edit pages won't see this dashboard.

The dashboard's two starting buttons are Get a Domain and Use a Domain I Own. Get a Domain runs a search inside Squarespace and registers the name for you; pricing varies by extension, and a .com costs more than most alternatives.

Use a Domain I Own is for a name already registered at GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, or anywhere else. Squarespace verifies it and then either offers to connect it by DNS or walks you through transferring the registration outright. Pick the second path only if you genuinely control the domain's DNS settings at its current registrar, since that's where the real work happens.

Click Use a Domain I Own, type the domain, and pick your provider from the dropdown (or Other if it isn't listed). Squarespace gives you a set of DNS records to add at your registrar: four A records, all with host @, pointing to Squarespace's IP addresses, plus two CNAME records, one for www pointing to ext.cust.squarespace.com and one carrying a verification code Squarespace generates for you.

That's six records total, not the single CNAME older guides sometimes mention. Propagation typically takes 24 to 48 hours, and the Domains panel shows a green "Connected" label once it's done. Resist the urge to keep editing records while you wait; conflicting edits are the main reason connections fail to finish.

Adding a domain and making it your site's address are two separate things. A site can have several domains attached at once, but only one is primary: the address shown in the browser bar and treated as canonical.

In the Domains panel, click the ... next to the domain and choose Set as primary domain (for a third-party domain, open it and choose the same option under Actions). Every other attached domain then redirects to it. This is the step people miss when they say a new domain "isn't working" even though it loads the site; it loads, but the old address is still the one search engines and browsers treat as canonical.

Open the connected domain's details to see its SSL certificate status. Squarespace issues certificates automatically, but only after DNS resolves correctly, so a pending or failed state usually means the DNS side isn't finished, not that anything is wrong with the certificate itself.

Once the padlock is live, test the address with and without www to confirm both reach the site. Finally, update your old URL anywhere it's published: social profiles, email signatures, business listings. Squarespace's redirect keeps visitors from hitting a dead link, but it won't update those other places for you.