Delete a registered domain

Note: On September 7, 2023 Squarespace acquired all domain registrations and related customer accounts from Google Domains. For more information about how this change affects Cloud Domains, see Cloud Domains feature deprecations, Google Domains FAQ, and Squarespace purchase of Google Domains FAQ.

This page describes how to delete a registered domain in Cloud Domains.

Before you delete a project with active domain registrations, transfer your registered domains from Cloud Domains to another registrar to avoid losing access.

Caution: You can't delete a domain registration resource in Cloud Domains until it has expired or transferred out. However, you can turn off automatic renewal for a domain name or transfer a registered domain to another registrar and then delete the domain registration resource in Cloud Domains.

To delete a registered domain, complete the following steps.

Permissions required for this task

To perform this task, you must have been granted the following permissions or the following IAM roles.

Permissions

• domains.registrations.delete

Roles

• roles/domains.admin

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Domains page.

   Go to Cloud Domains

2. On the Registrations page, select the domain name that you want to delete.

3. Next to the domain name that you want to delete, click More.

4. To remove the domain, click Delete.

gcloud

Use the gcloud domains registrations delete command:

gcloud domains registrations delete DOMAIN_NAME

Replace DOMAIN_NAME with the name of the registered domain that you want to delete—for example, example.app.

API

Use the registrations.delete method with an empty request body:

DELETE https://domains.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/global/registrations/DOMAIN_NAME

Replace the following:

• PROJECT_ID: the name of your project
• DOMAIN_NAME: the name of the domain that you want to delete

What's next

• To view a list of your registered domains, see List registered domains.
• To edit registration settings for a domain in Cloud Domains, see Edit registration settings.
• To access API information, see the Cloud Domains API.
• To find solutions for common issues that you might encounter when using Cloud Domains, see Troubleshooting.