[2] It was launched in 2014 and continued to operate, mostly as a beta service, until most of its assets were acquired by Squarespace on September 7, 2023.

The sale included databases of registered domains, customer accounts, and registry accreditation.

It also offered one-click DNS configuration that connected the domains with Blogger, Google Sites, Squarespace, Wix.com, Weebly, Bluehost, Shopify, and Firebase.

[8][9][better source needed] Google became a domain name registrar as early as in 2005.

[10] Google Domains was publicly launched under a beta test mode on January 13, 2015.