Using Google Domains as your registrar and getting the Can't switch to these settings. The registry rejected the name servers error when you try to use your own DNS servers?

You may need to add glue records for those servers even when it should not be necessary.

Example

We have two domains: fake-example.coffee & more-example.systems (not their real names). Both are under my account at Google Domains and both start out using Google for DNS.

We have DNS servers running at dns-a.fake-example.coffee & ns3.more-example.systems. A & AAAA records for each server are set in Google Domains’ DNS control panel.

We want to move more-example.systems to use our DNS servers, not Google’s, so we create a glue record for ns3.more-example.systems.

We try to set dns-a.fake-example.coffee & ns3.more-example.systems as name servers for more-example.systems. We get the Can't switch to these settings. The registry rejected the name servers error.

We go to the DNS settings for fake-example.coffee (remember, DNS hosted by Google), and add a glue record for dns-a.fake-example.coffee. We retry changing the DNS servers for more-example.systems. The changes are accepted.

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