Karyalay

Find a name

Type a name to check availability.

We ask the register now, and every answer carries both prices.

Type the name as you would say it. We check the Indian endings first, then the rest.

Worth knowing

Four things that cost people money

None of this is ours and none of it is negotiable. All of it is easier to hear now than in an email six weeks from now.

The second year is the one to look at

Endings are not priced alike, and what one costs to start has little to do with what it costs to keep. Both figures are on every result above, the same size, always.

Your details may be publicly listed

Anyone can look up who a name is registered to. Some endings let those details be kept off that listing and some do not — that is settled by whoever runs the ending, not by us.

A new name cannot move for about two months

After a name is registered or transferred there is commonly a wait before it can move again. Whether it applies and for how long depends on the ending. It is the register’s rule and there is no way around it.

The confirmation email really does matter

A message goes to the address on the registration asking you to confirm it is real. A name whose address was never confirmed gets suspended — and that takes the website and the mail down with it. We chase it rather than leaving you to find out.

Stuck on something

Stuck with a domain, or locked out of one?

A name mid-transfer, an account you have lost the password to, a registrar that has stopped answering — tell us what is actually going on and somebody here will work out what it needs. Checking a name you are still deciding on belongs here too.

Write it however you say it out loud. If you have not settled on the ending yet, leave it off and we will come back with what each one would cost you.

Worth filling in. The first choice is gone more often than not, and a shortlist means one answer instead of a week of them.

How should we reach you? Either one

It goes to the people who register names here, with the way to reach you that you leave above and nothing else. Nothing is bought by sending this, there is no card, and nobody is added to a mailing list.

Where to next

There is more to a name than the day you buy it

The reminders that start well before the date, the records, the lock, and the code that moves the name away from us whenever you want it.