Registering a domain

Buy a new domain from Domains. If you already own one, verify your domain instead.

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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. Each available result shows its first-year price and the renews at price when renewal costs differ.
3. Pick a name — if your exact name is taken, Alternatives include the same name on other extensions currently available to register (.com, .co, .io, etc.) and close variants like getacme.com or acmehq.com, each with its annual price. If the exact ending isn’t offered, the search keeps the exact name visible with the message Registration for {domain} isn’t currently offered. Try another ending or choose an available alternative. and continues showing supported alternatives. 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 (see below).
4. Complete checkout: the registration page shows the registrant contact details required by the domain registry, the registration options, the domain agreements that apply to the name, 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. Click Pay. Correct any contact errors before payment. After payment succeeds, follow registration on the progress screen.

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What you pay

The price shown includes all fees:

• 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 and always on — your name, address, phone and email stay out of public WHOIS lookups where the registry allows it. Your state or province and country stay public.
• 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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Accept the domain agreements

Registering a domain makes your business the registrant, so the first purchase asks a business owner or admin to accept three documents: the Domain Services Addendum, the domain registrar’s registration agreement, and the registry policies for the domain’s ending. Each one is linked at its current version on the checkout page, next to ICANN’s Registrants’ Benefits and Responsibilities.

• An owner or admin accepts by ticking two boxes before paying: that they accept the agreements on behalf of the business, and that they’re authorized to do so. Bizzy records who accepted, when, and which versions.
• Acceptance is per business and per document, not per domain. A later purchase whose documents are all already accepted shows when that happened and doesn’t ask again; a domain with a different ending asks an owner or admin to accept that ending’s registry policies as well.
• If you’re a member rather than an owner or admin, checkout shows you a link to send them. They accept on that page and you can then pay.
• When one of the documents changes, the next purchase — or the next renewal — asks an owner or admin to accept the current version first. Nothing is charged until they do.
• Purchases made through the API, an MCP client, an agent or an automation can’t accept for you. They’re refused with the link to the acceptance page until an owner or admin completes it in Bizzy.

The domain’s History tab records Domain agreements accepted for each registration and renewal, with the document versions that applied.

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Registration periods and registry rules

Most domains register for any term from 1 to 10 years. A few endings have their own registry rules, and checkout only offers terms the registry accepts:

• .ai domains register for a minimum of 2 years, and the total shown covers the full term.
• .co domains register for at most 5 years.

Some endings (.ai, .co, .io, .me) also require Business and Job Title on the registrant contact. Checkout asks for them only when they’re required; if you don’t have a company, enter your full name as the business and your role (for example, Owner) as the job title.

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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 currently available to register, 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 currently available to register.

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 names are premium — the registry prices them well above a standard domain. Premium names are labelled with a Premium badge in search results, but they can’t currently be registered through Bizzy: a premium name shows Not available for registration in place of a price, and checkout refuses it before anything is charged. Pick a standard-priced alternative instead.

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After purchase

Follow the progress screen after payment. Its checklist ticks off each stage — securing your domain, setting up DNS, finishing up — as registration reaches it.

• When registration succeeds, you land on the new domain’s page, ready to set up email and DNS.
• When registration fails, the screen explains what happened and links you back to checkout. Support contacts you about your payment.
• When registration takes longer than usual, the screen tells you so and stops asking you to wait. You receive an email when registration completes — you can close the page.

You can leave the page at any point; nothing is lost. If you come back to checkout while a registration for that name is still running, a banner links you to its progress. The domain appears in your list with source Registered. You don’t need to add TXT records for initial DNS setup. The status changes to Active once DNS propagation completes.

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Privacy and security settings

Every registered domain has WHOIS privacy and a transfer lock by default:

• WHOIS privacy keeps your registrant name, address, phone and email out of public WHOIS lookups where the registry allows it. Your state or province and country stay public. It is always on and cannot be turned off.
• Transfer lock prevents unauthorized transfers to another registrar. Manage it from the domain’s Settings tab.
• Auto-renewal renews the domain automatically before it expires (see Renewals below). Manage it from the Settings tab.

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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. A business owner or admin must have accepted the domain agreements in Bizzy first; otherwise the request fails with DOMAIN_AGREEMENTS_REQUIRED and the page where they complete that.

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Register with AI

Ask an agent to search for and register a domain within your spending limit. Approve the purchase in chat before payment. The agent can’t accept the domain agreements for your business — if they haven’t been accepted yet, it tells you where an owner or admin completes that. See Manage domains with AI for approvals, spending limits, and domain management.

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Verify your registrant email

Check the registrant email address you provided at checkout for a verification message. Follow its link before the deadline shown on the domain page, normally 15 days after registration. The sender varies by registration; use the guidance in the notice and check spam too. If you cannot find the email, contact support. An Active domain or a completed purchase does not confirm registrant email verification. Completion unknown means you need to check the email’s confirmation yourself. If verification is required and you miss the deadline, your domain’s website and email can stop working until you complete it. Dismiss the notice after you confirm verification. Dismissal hides the banner across visits; it does not verify your email or stop reminders. Reminders arrive 7 and 2 days before the deadline, according to your notification preferences. Ignore them if you have already verified. The banner also disappears when its reminder window ends; that does not confirm verification either. Changing the registrant’s name, business, or email can require verification again. See Registration contacts.

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Renewals

• Registered domains renew annually by default at their renewal price.
• The list highlights domains entering expiring status 7–30 days before renewal.
• Some domains renew only automatically: they extend one year at a time when auto-renew runs, and the Renew Domain action is not offered for them — the actions menu says Renews automatically while auto-renew is on. To keep such a domain, keep auto-renew on (Settings tab).
• Turning auto-renew off after a renewal has been charged doesn’t cancel that renewal — the year you paid for is still added. Auto-renew stays off for the years after it.
• Before charging a renewal, Bizzy checks that your business’s acceptance of the domain agreements is still current. If a document changed since it was accepted, nothing is charged: you get a notification with a link for an owner or admin to accept the current version, and the renewal runs again once they have.
• For other domains, 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. Once the domain has reached expired, renewal is no longer offered — see Recovering an expired domain.

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Renew now

For domains that offer it, you can renew 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 the charge to your default payment method. The new expiration date appears on the domain once 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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Recovering an expired domain

When a registration lapses, the domain’s status changes to expired, its website and email stop working, and the owners and admins of the business get a notification. Recovery is handled by support:

1. Click Email support on the domain’s page, or email [email protected] from the address on your account with the domain name.
2. Support checks whether the name can still be recovered and what it costs, and sends you the quote. Recovery isn’t guaranteed: it depends on the registry and how long ago the registration lapsed.
3. Nothing is charged until you approve the quote in writing.

Once recovered, the domain shows Active with its new expiration date and renews as before. If recovery isn’t possible, support tells you so — the domain stays listed as expired until you delete it, and you can register the name again if it becomes available.

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Troubleshooting

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Next steps