Grab a domain name and plant your flag on the web

No. That figure is on screen long before you reach checkout. Sign-up price and renewal price sit next to each other in the pricing table further up this page, and the renewal number is exactly what lands on your invoice every year from year two onward. A handful of extensions run a cheaper first year, .xyz being one of them, and in those cases the standard renewal printed alongside is the number you should budget against. Both figures are there from the very start. Nothing gets sprung on you afterwards.

Yes. It switches on by itself for any domain that permits it, and that means most gTLDs, .com, .net and .org among them. Your genuine name, your address, your email and your phone number get replaced by shielded placeholders in the public WHOIS record, for nothing extra, and that swap alone knocks out a good deal of the spam and the scam calls that domain owners usually put up with. A few country-code extensions refuse privacy protection because the registry says so. Those are the only exceptions.

It does. Every generic TLD carries a small compulsory ICANN fee, about $0.18 a year as things stand, and that amount is already baked into the register and renewal prices on the list. Checkout adds nothing on top of them.

Usually, yes. Unlock it at whichever registrar holds the name, grab the EPP/auth code from them, then start the move on our transfer page. A standard gTLD transfer adds a whole extra year of registration onto the clock, charged at the normal renewal rate rather than a promo one. ICANN rules also apply: the domain has to be 60 days old at minimum, and it cannot have moved between registrars in the last 60 days.

Registering it takes very little time at all. Once you aim the domain at your hosting, DNS changes tend to spread within minutes, with full coverage around the world arriving inside a handful of hours. If your site sits with us, a free SSL certificate gets issued and configured the moment the domain begins resolving. Nothing is required at your end, not even a click.

Not at all. Register the domain on its own and point it wherever in the world you like. Bundle it with our cheapest hosting plan, though, and you end up with one dashboard, one invoice, SSL configured on your behalf, and a website that works inside a few minutes.