Using multiple domains for your business can maximize your marketing strategy, increase your web presence, and connect your brand to your target audience.

You can use multiple domains on one or more Squarespace sites to help potential visitors find you. All Squarespace plans let you register as many domains as you need to expand your reach.

This guide offers tips and best practices for managing multiple domains.

Note: If your domain was migrated from Google Domains but you aren't able to find it in your account's domains dashboard, ensure you're logging in with the email address that was associated with your Google Domain. If you still can't find your domain, follow our steps to recover your account email address.

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Multiple domains vs. multiple sites

Domains are separate from sites. If you think of your site as your home, your domain is the street address where people find you. Every home needs at least one address, but you might have extra addresses that forward to your primary address. You can also use an address without a home, like when you have a P.O. box.

To learn more about using multiple sites in your Squarespace account, visit Managing multiple sites. For more information about the difference between sites and domains, visit Web hosting vs. domain hosting.

How multiple domains appear in your account

For all the domains associated with your account, open your domains dashboard. Here you'll find every domain on your account. Click into any domain to review or update its information. 

Depending on your current settings for each domain, each domain may be connected to individual sites, or you may have multiple domains pointing to the same site. Any domain that isn't connected to a site will have a parking page.

Some of your domains may be grouped domains, which means they share billing information. To learn more, visit Squarespace domains overview.

To connect a domain to a website or change where it leads visitors, visit Choosing the right option for moving your Squarespace Domain.

Why use multiple domains on one site?

Using more than one domain is a great way to direct traffic to your site and give visitors multiple ways to find you. When you have multiple domains on a single site, one is set as a primary domain and all other domains connected to that site redirect to the primary domain.

Your other domains can capture common misspellings and keep competitors from registering similar domain names. For example, if your domain is “mysite.com,” you might also want to register “my-site.com,” “mysite.net,” or "mysitee.com."

SEO for sites with multiple domains

Having multiple domains on one Squarespace site won't hurt your ranking in search engines. We prevent search engines from penalizing you for duplicate content by redirecting multiple domains to one primary domain.

To learn more, visit What Squarespace does for SEO.

Billing

You can manage billing for your domains through your domains dashboard. If you can't find a domain you're looking for on the dashboard, it may be under another account.

To manage a domain's billing:

1. Open your domains dashboard.
2. Click the domain you want to manage.
3. Click Billing in the side panel.

Here you can edit your domain's billing address and card on file by clicking Edit above the address or card.

Changing one domain's billing information affects the billing of any domain in the same group, even if they aren't pointing to the same site, and may affect other subscriptions. To check on this:

1. After you click Billing in the side panel, a blue banner appears if changes here will affect other subscriptions.
2. Click View Subscriptions to review what subscriptions will be affected. To learn more about grouped domains, visit Squarespace domains overview.

When you have multiple domains linked to the same site, keep the following in mind:

• Each Squarespace domain is billed individually on its own billing cycle. This means that if you cancel your site service, your domains don't automatically cancel with it.
• When Squarespace domains renew, the card on file for the domain is charged, even if the domain's registration data is different.
• We recommend reviewing your domain options before canceling site service.

Add domains to your site

You can add a custom domain to your site in three ways:

• Register a Squarespace domain
• Transfer a domain to Squarespace
• Connect a third-party domain

Add multiple domains using one method, or all three. There’s no official limit for the number of domains you can add to your site.

If you already own a third-party domain, we recommend transferring it to Squarespace, rather than connecting it. This lets you manage all aspects of your site in one place.

Tip: If you use Google Search Console, you can review the terms visitors use to find your site, then register domains based on those search keyword trends.

Use domains without a site

If you'd like to register a domain, but you're not ready to build a site or point your domain to an existing site, you can register a domain through Squarespace, and we'll park the domain for you on a parking page. A parking page is a minimalist, ad-free placeholder page that keeps your domain safe until you're ready to connect it to a site.

If you already have a third-party domain you’d like to park with Squarespace, you can transfer to a parking page.

Redirect a domain

If your site uses multiple domains, but you no longer want to point all of them to your primary domain, you have a few options. You can:

• Move the domain to a different Squarespace site
• Forward or point the domain to a different site
• Transfer the domain to a new provider
• Cancel or disconnect the domain

Note: If you’re leaving Squarespace, review your domain options before canceling site service.