I’ve seen some people in the SEO industry suggest that there will be some sort of search ranking and impact on SEO the sale from Google Domains to Squarespace. I just wanted to clarify that this sale should have zero impact on your Google search rankings or SEO efforts.
Some think that when Google sells Google Domains it will lose its status as a domain registrar. And if Google doesn’t have DNS records it can affect some search signals like when the domain was registered, if it was removed, if it was transferred, etc.
I doubt that Google will abandon its status as a domain name registrar.
Google became a domain registrar in 2005, 9 years before they opened Google Domains in 2014. So I doubt Google was thinking in 2005, let’s become a domain name seller 9 years later. The two are probably unrelated and I doubt Google will give up its status there.
Also, I guess it’s possible that during the transfer Google Domains might have DNS issues when the migration happens. But I’m sure that’s highly unlikely. And if that happens, Google Search will quickly find out and things will go back to normal when it’s resolved. Although, it is highly unlikely that things will go wrong with the transfer.
So I don’t think selling Google domains has any impact on SEO or Google ranking.
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