[buro9]

I think the most shocking thing is that the link to Squarespace is an affiliate link.

Google have sold Google Domains to Squarespace... but apparently, not for enough as they really really want to just make a few hundred bucks more from affiliate revenue.

Is Google really in that much trouble?

[ttymck]

Perhaps they were obligated to do this under the terms of the sale?

Maybe it's not for affiliate revenue, but just because some product manager at squarespace needed another metric to track?

[fakedang]

More likely, Squarespace just wants to track the number of users searching from Google Domains, before the brand is completely sunset.