Registering a Domain

If you don’t already own a domain, Bizzy can register one for you. Payment runs through Stripe and the domain is auto-configured for email once the purchase completes.

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When to register vs. verify

• Register if you’re buying a fresh domain specifically for your Bizzy business.
• Verify if you already own the domain somewhere else. See Verify a domain.

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The registration flow

1. Go to Domains and click Add Domain → Register a new domain (or visit /{org}/domains/create directly).
2. Search for a domain. Bizzy checks live availability and shows each available result’s first-year price. Domains whose renewal differs from the first year (and all premium domains) also show the renews at price, so the cost you see in search is the cost you’ll pay.
3. Pick a name — if your exact name is taken, Bizzy suggests available Alternatives: the same name on other extensions Bizzy sells (.com, .co, .io, etc.) and close variants like getacme.com or acmehq.com, each with its annual price. When your name is available, the same suggestions appear under You might also like. Click any name to register it. Premium domains are labelled Premium with their registry-set price (see below).
4. Complete checkout on one page — the registration page shows everything at once: the registrant contact details required by the domain registry, the registration options, and an embedded Stripe payment form that loads as soon as the page opens. If you have a saved card on file it appears pre-selected for one-click payment; new cards are saved automatically for future checkouts. Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link appear inside the form when supported by your browser. Changing the registration period briefly reloads the payment form with the new total.
5. Pay — click Pay to confirm. Your contact details are validated and saved first, then the payment is taken; once it succeeds the page switches to a confirmation view.

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What you pay

Domain prices are simple cost-plus over the registrar’s wholesale price, and every price you see is all-in:

• The Total cost shown before payment is exactly the amount charged — there are no separate fees added at checkout.
• WHOIS privacy is included at no extra cost. The toggle in the registration form controls whether your contact details are hidden from public WHOIS lookups; it never changes the price.
• Multi-year registrations are charged as the first year at the registration price plus each additional year at the renewal price, and the registration screen shows both prices along with the total.

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Alternative name suggestions

Every search also suggests other names you could register, built from your query:

• Other extensions — the same name across the TLDs Bizzy sells, in order of popularity (.com, .co, .io, .net, .org, and more).
• Close variants — common prefixes and suffixes, like getacme.com, tryacme.com, acmeapp.com, and acmehq.com.
• Related names — suggestions from the domain search provider, filtered to extensions Bizzy sells.

Suggestions appear as Alternatives when your exact name is taken and as You might also like when it’s available. Only available names are shown, each with live availability and its first-year price, and clicking one takes you straight into the registration flow.

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Premium domains

Some available domains are premium — the registry prices them well above a standard domain, and their renewal price is often different from (and higher than) the first-year registration price. Bizzy reads the live premium price from the registrar, so premium domains are handled honestly end to end:

• Flagged in search with a Premium badge and their actual first-year and renewal prices — never a standard placeholder price.
• Charged at the premium amount at checkout. The total you confirm is the first year at the registration price plus each additional year (when you register for more than one year) at the renewal price — so a multi-year premium registration is quoted exactly, with no surprise at payment.
• Renewed at the premium renewal price, which is shown on the registration screen and stored with your registration.

There’s nothing extra to do — pick a premium domain and the prices shown are the prices you pay.

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After purchase

When payment is confirmed, the form displays a confirmation view instead of navigating away automatically:

• Heading: “Payment successful — registering …”
• Body: “We’re registering your domain now. You’ll get an email when it’s ready, and it will appear on your domains list within a few minutes.”
• Button: Click Go to domains to navigate to your Domains list.

The domain appears in the list with source Registered within a few minutes. Initial DNS is configured automatically — you don’t need to add TXT records; Bizzy already controls the zone. The domain transitions to active once DNS propagation completes.

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Privacy and security settings

Every registered domain gets WHOIS privacy and a transfer lock by default, managed from the domain’s Settings tab:

• WHOIS privacy hides your registrant contact details from public WHOIS lookups.
• Transfer lock prevents unauthorized transfers to another registrar.
• Auto-renewal renews the domain automatically before it expires (see Renewals below).

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Register through the API

If you’re building an integration or automation, use the Register a Domain via the API guide. It shows the full flow: search availability, get a live quote, submit registrant contact details, set maxAmountCents, and poll the registration operation.

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Register with AI

AI agents can register domains too — searching availability, then running the same quote → charge → provision flow as the UI and API, held to a hard spend ceiling and (in agent chat) your approval before anything is charged. See Manage Domains with AI for the full domain × AI story — including the approval and spending model, verification, DNS, and renewal — and the domain tools reference for parameters and permissions.

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Verify your registrant email (ICANN requirement)

After a new registration, ICANN requires the registrant email address you provided at checkout to be verified within 15 days — otherwise the registry suspends the domain, and its website and email stop working until it’s verified. The registrar emails the verification link directly to the registrant contact address — it comes from [email protected]. To stay compliant:

1. Check the registrant contact’s inbox (and spam folder) for that email.
2. Click the verification link inside it. That’s the whole process.

Bizzy can’t see whether you’ve completed verification — registrars don’t expose it — so the domain’s detail page shows a dismissible notice with your deadline, and you’ll receive reminder notifications before day 15. If you already clicked the link, dismiss the notice and ignore the reminders. If you can’t find the email, contact support and we’ll have it re-sent. A registrant email verification is also re-triggered if the registrant’s name, organization, or email is later changed — from the Registration Contacts page, the API, or an agent. Because a contact can be the registrant for more than one domain, the 15-day window restarts on every domain that uses it.

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Renewals

• Registered domains renew annually by default via Stripe at their renewal price — for premium domains this is the registry’s premium renewal price, not the standard rate.
• The list highlights domains entering expiring status 7–30 days before renewal.
• If an auto-renewal fails (or auto-renew is off), you can renew the domain yourself at any time before it expires — see Renew now below. If the domain has already reached expired, contact support to recover it.

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Renew now (manual renewal)

You can renew a domain yourself at any time — including when auto-renew is off or after a failed auto-renewal:

1. Open the domain’s detail page and choose Renew Domain from the actions menu (also available from the row menu on the Domains list).
2. Pick a renewal period (1–10 years). The dialog shows the per-year renewal price and the total before you pay — premium domains renew at the registry’s premium renewal price and are labelled Premium.
3. Confirm. Your account’s default payment method is charged the total shown, the registration is extended at the registrar, and the new expiration date appears on the domain once the renewal completes.

The price you confirm is a ceiling: if the live registrar price rises above it before the charge happens, nothing is charged — you’ll be asked to review the new total and confirm again. You’ll get a notification (in-app and email, depending on your preferences) when the renewal succeeds or fails; if the charge fails, the renewal is not processed and the payment is never kept without a successful renewal.

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Troubleshooting

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Next steps