The offer gets the attention
Many registrars make the first-year figure impossible to miss and push the recurring renewal into a footnote. That smaller line of type usually contains the price you will pay for longer.
Your first address
Every journey starts with a name.
A domain turns a private idea into a place people can find, trust and remember. Start with the name your venture can grow into.
Registration and renewal prices, shown together from the start.
The price today and the price later
Know how domains are charged
A domain has two prices: registration today and renewal later. Compare both to understand what keeping the name will actually cost.
The whole decision stays visible
Every search result places the first-year and renewal prices side by side, at equal size, before checkout—so you can compare the real cost of keeping the name.
Choose a name for the business you are building, with no year-two surprise. Prices by extension →
The lifecycle of a domain name
What happens as the renewal date approaches
Every domain follows the same clock. Select a stage to see what changes, what still works and when recovery becomes difficult.
Stage 1 of 5
Registered and working
What happens
The name is registered in your own details, not ours, and points wherever you tell it to. Your site answers on it and your mail arrives at it.
What we do
We keep the records behind it right, and we do not make you ask us to change them.
Yours to change
The settings you control yourself
Everything below is a setting you open and change yourself. None of it is a support request, and none of it is a thing we can hold over you if you decide to leave.
- Where the name pointsThe records that send visitors to your site and mail to your mailboxes, editable yourself rather than by asking us.
- NameserversPoint the whole name somewhere else entirely if you would rather host it elsewhere. It is your name.
- Who it is registered toThe details on the registration, held encrypted. The registry insists the email address is confirmed — if it is not, names get suspended, so we chase it rather than leaving it to you to discover.
- The lockOn by default, so nobody can start moving the name without you turning it off first.
- Your transfer codeThe code that moves the name to another company, shown to you on request and never withheld. We keep a note of when it was shown, which protects you rather than us.
- Privacy on the public recordWhere the registry allows it, your details are kept off the public listing that anyone can look up.
- RenewalAutomatic or manual, changed whenever you like, with the date always in front of you.
Already have one
Transferring a domain you already own
Four steps, one of which is a rule we cannot bend. Say the word and we will do the chasing with your current provider.
Unlock it where it is now
Whoever holds the name has a lock on it. Turn that off in their control panel — it is usually one switch.
Ask them for the code
Every name has a transfer code. They are obliged to give it to you; some make it easy and some make you look for it.
Give it to us
We start the move and keep you posted. Nothing about your site or mail changes while it is in flight.
One caveat we would rather say first
A name cannot move within about two months of being registered or last transferred. That is the registry’s rule, not ours, and there is no way around it — so if you have just bought it elsewhere, the move waits.
We are not a registrar, and we would rather you did not think of us as one. We sell names because a business setting itself up should not be sent to a stranger for the one thing its website and its mail both depend on.
There is very little money in this and we are not pretending otherwise. What there is, is one fewer company between you and something breaking — when the name, the site and the mail are all in one place, nobody can tell you it is the other one’s fault.
Tell us the name you want
Or the one you already have and would rather keep somewhere that watches the date. We will tell you what it costs to buy and what it costs to keep, in that order.