Turn Google Domains on or off for users

As an administrator of your organisation's Google Accounts, you can control who uses Google Domains. Just turn Domains on or off for those users in your Admin console. Users who have Domains turned on can purchase new domains (such as, example.com), and manage domains from their account.

Important considerations

• If you turn this service on for everyone, you should first consider if you want to allow all users to purchase domains with their Google Workspace account. This includes students in Google Workspace for Education accounts. If not, consider keeping this service off, or turning it on only for users in some organisations (such as administrators).
• If you turn this service off, users who had previously purchased domains from Google Domains using their Google Workspace account will have the chance to transfer ownership of their domain to another Google Account (such as a personal Gmail account) when they next try to manage their domain. Their domain will continue to renew each year, provided that their payment instrument is valid.

Control who uses Google Domains in your organisation

Before you begin: To turn the service on or off for select groups of users, put their accounts in an organisational unit.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsAdditional Google services.
3. Click Google Domains. 

   Tip: Scroll to see all services. Or at the left, choose a Filter to narrow the list, for example, based on status or popularity.

4. Click Service status.

5. To apply settings to all organisations, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save. 

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organisational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organisational unit.
   2. Select On or Off.
   3. Click Override to keep your setting if the service for the parent organisational unit is changed.
   4. If Overridden is already set for the organisational unit, choose an option:
      • Inherit – Reverts to the same setting as its parent.
      • Save – Saves your new setting (even if the parent setting changes).

   Learn more about organisational structure.

7. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.

Next steps

Learn about Google Domains at the Google Domains Help Centre.

Related topics

• Turn a service on or off for Google Workspace users
• Turn on or off new services by default
• G Suite for Education Core and Additional services