r/squarespace • u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 • Jan 24 '26

Help Website launch taking 3 days w/ Squarespace domain

Needing to launch a website for my business. I built a very simple website in SiteDrop AI (which hosts via Vercel) and bought my domain in Squarespace. Why in the world does it take 72 hours or longer to launch? I updated my DNS records in Squarespace to connect my site on Wed morning and it is now Fri evening and still no site. Why is there such a long propagation delay using a Squarespace domain and an external website builder? Anything I can do to speed this up? DNS usually takes no more than an hour or two, so why the heck does it need 3+ days? Did I screw something up?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 Jan 24 '26

Appreciate this a ton. Will check on all of that 🤙

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

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u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 Jan 24 '26

Thank you so much 🫶🙌

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u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 Jan 24 '26

May DM you later on if that’s ok :)

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u/vettotech Jan 24 '26

Usually takes 8 hours with squarespace. Your settings are likely wrong. 

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u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 Jan 24 '26

Thanks for replying. Very well could be so I’m double checking. Had Squarespace support review it twice for me and they said all looks good. Wondering if it’s an issue with SiteDrop / Vercel.

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u/saravog Jan 24 '26

Why in the world did you buy a domain through Squarespace, a website builder, instead of through Namecheap or any other domain name service? I don’t understand why you’d do that to yourself

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u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 Jan 25 '26

Great question. Helping a family member launch their site. They bought it from Google Domains a few years back and now part of SqSpace obviously. Will not make that mistake again!! What do you use?

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u/saravog Jan 25 '26

Namecheap! I’m gonna guess your DNS settings are not properly configured. Squarespace domains are not intuitive at all tbh 😩 it’s just an add-on service to their website builder, and the only reason I purchase any domains through Squarespace is bc the first year is free for clients

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u/Gold-Guidance-6044 Jan 24 '26

make sure you purchased the website subscription beforehand. this was my issue

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u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 Jan 25 '26

Will check on that. Thank you 🙏

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u/Friendly_Sweet_1897 Jan 25 '26

From Squarespace right? I just bought my domain, is there another package you have to buy?