Your domain name
Your name on the door, your card, your renewal date. We never hold it and we never renew it for you. Buy it yourself, in your name, from a company that will still be here when the site is.
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Where this goes wrong
- If the domain is already registered — by a previous owner, a previous agency, or another business — that is not a checkout detail, it is a conversation. Stop before you pay anything.
- A lapsed domain starts as a small problem and becomes a large one: the address stops answering, and any search history that pointed at it goes with it.
- Some domain endings publish your contact details in a public lookup. If that bothers you, say so before you buy and we will look at what that registrar offers.
- A .ca address has Canadian presence rules attached. If the registry asks you something you cannot answer, stop and ask us instead of guessing.
Before you start
If one of these is missing, get it sorted first. It is faster than stalling halfway through.
- The exact name you want, checked for availability before you spend anything.
- A card in your name. The card and the domain should belong to the same person or the same business.
- Your business details: the legal name, a postal address, and a phone number. Registrars are required to hold accurate contact details for every domain they sell, so these are not optional fields.
- Ten minutes of patience, because the availability check is not instant.
Do it in this order
Pick a registrar and go to their site directly — Namecheap, Cloudflare Registrar, Porkbun and GoDaddy are the ones most people around here have heard of. Buy from the registrar itself, not from a marketplace and not from inside a website builder's checkout, which is where domains quietly end up in somebody else's account.
Search for your name and buy it. At checkout, enter your name and use your card. Nothing else should be filled in.
Find the auto-renew setting and turn it on. Then put the renewal date in your phone calendar as well, so the renewal does not depend on one checkbox staying right.
If the registrar offers two-step verification or a domain lock, turn both on now, while you are already logged in.
Send us the domain name. Do not send us the registrar password — there is more than one safe way to give us what we need, and we will tell you which one.