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

Go to squarespace.com and sign in. The login screen takes an email and password on the left, with Continue with Google, Apple, and Facebook stacked on the right — use whichever method you originally signed up with, since a Google sign-in and an email sign-in with the same address are not automatically the same account.

If you're setting up from scratch, Create Account is in the top-right corner instead. Note that domain changes are an account-owner action, so a contributor invited only to edit pages won't see the settings covered here.

From your site's dashboard, click Settings in the lower part of the left panel. The Settings drawer that slides in has its own menu — Website, Domains & Email, Customer Notifications, Selling, Brand, Marketing, Third Party Tools, Permissions & Ownership, Billing, and Developer Tools.

Choose Domains & Email. That page holds exactly two cards: Domains, which covers registering and managing domains from Squarespace or other sellers, and Google Workspace for email. Everything to do with your site's address lives behind the first one.

Opening Domains gives you two buttons: Get a Domain and Use a Domain I Own. This is the fork in the road.

Get a Domain runs a search inside Squarespace and registers the name for you — pricing varies by extension, and a .com will cost more than most alternatives. Use a Domain I Own is for a name you already registered at GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, or anywhere else; Squarespace will verify it and then either walk you through pointing its DNS records or offer to transfer the registration outright. Pick the second path only if you genuinely control the domain's DNS settings, because that is where the work happens.

If you already own the name, type it in and let Squarespace check it. What follows depends on your registrar: for many providers Squarespace can connect automatically after you authorize it, while for others you'll be handed a set of DNS records — typically four A records and a CNAME — to paste into your registrar's DNS panel yourself.

Neither route is instant. DNS propagation genuinely takes time, often a few hours and occasionally up to two days, so a domain that doesn't work ten minutes after you save is normal, not broken. Resist the urge to keep changing records while you wait; conflicting edits are the main reason connections fail.

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

Open the domain from your Domains list and set it as primary; the others will redirect to it. This is the step people miss when they say the new domain 'isn't working' even though it loads the site: it loads, but the old built-in address is still winning as the canonical URL.

Click into the connected domain to see its details, including SSL certificate status. Squarespace issues certificates automatically, but the certificate can only be issued after DNS resolves correctly, so a pending or failed SSL state usually means the DNS side isn't finished rather than that anything is wrong with the certificate.

Once the padlock is live, test the address with and without www and confirm both reach the site. Finally, update anywhere your old URL is published — social profiles, email signatures, business listings — because Squarespace's redirect keeps visitors working but link equity and habit both benefit from pointing at the real address.