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So I have a Google Workspace attached to my domain. How will this work when the domain is managed by another company? When I move my domains off Squarespace, how will my Workspace work? I’m confused if they are saying my Workspace services will migrate to Squarespace too?

> Squarespace will also provide billing and support services to Google Workspace customers

I have to admit, I’m at a total loss, this makes zero sense.

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I've got a long-grandfathered "free" workspace for a domain that never had Google as the registrar. I don't think there's much concern here -- Squarespace will be (unless they delegate that out) your new registrar and will likely migrate WHOIS and set up the appropriate MX/TXT/... records to keep things working.

Otherwise, Google has documentation for that:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/48090?hl=en

Squarespace already acted as a reseller/billing provider for Google Workspace, you could buy it through them if you were using Squarespace hosting.

The support doc is saying that if you bought Google Workspace through the Google Domains frontend, paying with the same method you used to buy domains, Squarespace will take over the billing of it in the future.

If you went directly to Google Workspace, signed up, and then linked your domain manually, with separate billing, then Google Workspace will continue to bill you directly.

Google Workspace has a reseller program. They likely mean that. I believe they already do it; I know Wix does — you can register your domain and with it get a mailbox, drive etc and all of it is managed by google workspace but admin is via wix.

Probably not much differently. You may have to set DNS servers to Google’s or add a CNAME or MX records, but it’s likely not overly complicated.

When you move, keep your authoritative dns's @ MX pointed to *asmx.google.com or whatever your current MX setup is.

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