Ported from Google Domains to Squarespace Domains
I'm passing on this information to those who may have found Reddit and are experiencing email forward problems with Squarespace.
I was recently transferred from Google Domains to Squarespace Domains. I knew it was happening before I was notified because my email forwards stopped working. A couple of my forwards were to AT&T email addresses, managed by yahoo.com, and I just couldn't make it work with Squarespace. All I want the domain for is email forwards, but it wasn't working with Yahoo. The link below mentions Yahoo and a bunch of other email providers that Squarespace can't forward to.
From the Squarespace link above: Below is a non-exhaustive list of email domains and subdomains you can't use as the recipient of your email forward:
So I gave up on Squarespace. To get around this I thought I might need a new registrar but found a FREE service from Cloudflare.com resolved my issues while keeping my cheap domain through Squarespace.
Setup for Cloudflare is as simple as creating an account, then adding your domain to the account utilizing their FREE service. At every step, Cloudflare walks you through the setup on what you need to do so setup was stupid simple. Once you get the nameservers setup you can start adding email forwards. I had my email forwards working in about 10-20 minutes!
I'm thinking I'll eventually dump SquareSpace when they inevitably raise their prices, but for now this setup is working pretty well.
Posted May 15, 2024, 1:53 PM UTC