Changing the Squarespace allocated domain...

Hi,

I have a site that I have built and its on a domain that I use for my business, www.ambientlife.co.uk 
I noted that if I look at the site code it shows the old Squarespace domain in there from when I first started the account and I read on the help pages that you can change this at anytime. However when I look at doing that there is a warning that it could affect links etc and as I am very new to all this I wanted some solid advice before I go and break something! 

<!-- This is Squarespace. --><!-- red-rose-3mdf -->

Am I okay to change this to something like 'AmbientLife' rather than what it is now, I looked somebody else's site that has their own domain and saw they had clearly changed theres to something more inline with who they were. 

Code example below. 

Many thanks in advance.

Tim 

The ability to change a domain is only for the Squarespace internal domain xxx.squarespace.com.  You can make the xxx just about anything. A custom domain, you can create and buy a different one but changing a registered existing one, no. 

Hi @AmbientLife, Squarespace calls this the "built-in" domain. 

I only ask because it shows in the page source of my live site at www.ambientlife.co.uk as below;

<!-- This is Squarespace. --><!-- red-rose-3mdf -->

So therefore I wanted to know if i could change it and get some additional benefit by having my company name in there instead.

Obviously without messing up any of my site build or links?

Thank you very much in advance for any advice and help.
Tim 

Hi @AmbientLife. Yes you can change the built-in domain. This article covers how to do it and why you might want to: https://www.collaborada.com/blog/squarespace-built-in-domain

It can be anything you prefer, but in our experience, using the company name often leads to site owners sharing or linking to the wrong URL. 

Thank you, I read the help links and checked site:red-rose-3mdf.squarespace.com
Google is indexing that, soooooo not sure what is best to do now

Totally understand what you are saying about not using my company name though for those reasons, makes sense now I think of it.

What would you suggest? 

My business site sits on www.ambientlife.co.uk and works well with google
It was just the fact I see <!-- This is Squarespace. --><!-- red-rose-3mdf --> when I look at source.

Maybe I am being too picky?

Would appreciate experienced advice.

Thank you
Tim 

Hi Tim. Yes you can change red-rose-3mdf to anything you like. Just know if you've inadvertently linked to red-rose-3mdf, those links will 404 after the change. 

Thanks @melody495 I had not thought of that.
I have my site on my main company domain of www.ambientlife.co.uk but I have been through and made sure that 'redrose' does not feature in any of the internal linking. 

Thanks again 
Tim