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Google Cloud Domains as a product will continue to function but it’ll be an interface to Squarespace: Squarespace will be the registrar.

“Yes, you can continue to search and register for new domains using Cloud Domains. After migration, Google Cloud becomes a reseller of Squarespace Domains. When you buy new domains using Cloud Domains after migration, the registrar of record is Squarespace.”

The least bad outcome.

https://cloud.google.com/domains/docs/faq