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Any reason you're not just sticking with Squarespace?
Squarespace seems to be targeting a very different market.
In what way?
Their adverts are all about websites for people who don't know how to create websites.
Aren't their renewal rate hikes higher?
That's a fair question, I agree with the other commenter that they're targeting a different market. It took me a while to even find pricing on their website specifically for domains, but did find this faq:
Minimum $20/yr is more expensive than some other registrars. I'm not even sure if you can register domains normally without also paying for other services from squarespace, but I've never seen them mentioned when talking about domain registrars either.
All I need is the ability to register domains, have domain whois privacy, and the ability to change nameservers. Squarespace has a lot of other products that I'm not interested in, and if they aren't making money off of domain renewals - I'd fully expect to be peppered with ads and marketing trying to upsell me. I don't have any prior experience with squarespace, but I do have experience with several others that I'd consider moving more domains over to first.
Really appreciate the response - thank you.
I just had a handful of domains tick over renewal on Google Domains in the past week, so I suppose I'll have some time to see what Squarespace is like from an administration perspective before I end up having to commit to renewing with them.