Register a Domain Name

Minutes. Search it, pay for it, and it’s yours, usually live within the hour, occasionally a few hours while the internet catches up. There’s no approval, no waiting list, and nobody reviewing your application.

On most extensions, yes, up to ten years at a time, and it’s a good idea if the name matters to you, because it takes expiry off the table entirely. The exception is .co.za, which the registry only allows in one-year terms.

Not the name itself, a domain is the name. What you do instead is register the new one and point the old one at it, so anyone who types the old address still lands on you. That’s a five-minute job and we’ll do it.

No. Plenty of people take a name years before they use it, purely so nobody else does. Until you’re ready we’ll park it on a clean holding page with no ads on it, and it costs you nothing extra.

Email forwarding is included free, mail sent to your domain lands in an inbox you already use. For proper mailboxes on your own domain, with webmail and your phone set up, you’ll want a hosting plan. That’s included on every one of them.

Two different things wear that label. Some are priced high by the registry because the word is valuable. Others are owned by someone who’s willing to sell, which is a negotiation, not a purchase. Either way, we’ll show you the real price up front rather than springing it on you at checkout.

Yes. It’s yours, and it’s transferable. Whether anyone wants to buy it is a different question, most domains are worth what you paid for them, and the ones worth more are the short, obvious, memorable ones that went twenty years ago.

No, and we never will. You unlock it, we give you the code, it goes. Charging people to leave is what hosts do when they know their customers want to.

Take the .com first, it’s what people type when they guess, and it works everywhere. Then add your country’s extension if you serve one market, because it tells a local customer you’re actually local. Most businesses end up with both and point one at the other. Just note some country extensions have rules: a .com.au needs an Australian business number, a .ca needs a Canadian presence.

Yes. Your name, your details, your email on the registry record, not ours. We manage it for you, but we don’t hold it, and you don’t need our permission to take it somewhere else. If that sounds like an odd thing to have to promise, it’s because a lot of people have been burnt by web designers who registered the domain in their own name.