If you have a G Suite account, chances are you’ve received this email from G Suite:

Dear G Suite Administrator,

You are receiving this email because users within your organization may have active links within their documents, websites, scripts, or applications that go to Google’s G Suite Domain Contact page. On August 31, 2020, the Domain Contact page will be removed, since it contains the Admin contact details of Google’s customers. If your users don’t remove internal links to this page in their resources, the links will break as of August 31, 2020, resulting in a “404 Error” code.

What do I need to do?

Instruct your users to remove the following Domain Contact page link within your organization’s internal documents, websites, scripts, or applications: www.google.com/a/<domain-name>/DomainContact.

You will need to provide your users with the <domain-name> for your organization and send them the following step-by-step instructions:

  • To remove the Domain Contact link, follow the steps below:
    • Step 1: Open your internal documents, websites, scripts, or applications.
    • Step 2: Search for any links that reference www.google.com/a/<domain-name> with your domain name filled in for <domain-name>.
    • Step 3: Look for links that contain DomainContact.
    • Step 4: Remove each link.
    • Step 5: Replace the link with a tested, live link to a document or website.
    • Step 6: Save your document, website, script, or application.

What if I don’t do anything?

Google is not providing a redirection link for the G Suite Domain Contact page. This may cause a 404 “Page Not Found” error when your internal users attempt to use documents, websites, scripts or applications that rely on the link.

Your domain-names(s) listed below are affected:

How can I get help?

If you have additional questions or need assistance, please contact G Suite support. When you call or submit your support case, reference issue number #.

Thanks for choosing G Suite.

—The G Suite Team

There is some confusion over what this means. Essentially, Google is removing a publicly available URL that shows contact information for your G Suite organization. Some people may use this internally in wikis or documents, so Google is giving you a heads up that the link will not work after August 31st, 2020. If you have never seen a link like that before or used one, then you have no reason to look for it or make any changes.

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