Researched guides to finding, checking and buying domain names, and the infrastructure behind them.
Subscribe by RSSA .si domain takes a few minutes to register from anywhere in the world. Check that the name is free, compare registrar prices, register it, then point it where it needs to go. Plus what to do when the name you want is already listed for sale.
Two letters, open to anyone in the world, and since the White House renamed AI to "Super Intelligence" in September 2026, the fastest growing extension on the internet. What .si is, who runs it, what it costs, and what the rush means for you.
These two sit at opposite ends of the market. Cloudflare sells domains at cost and makes no profit on them. GoDaddy is the largest registrar in the world and monetises everything around them. Neither is wrong, and the right answer depends on one question.
Both are the sensible alternative to GoDaddy, both include privacy free, and both are cheap enough that price alone will not decide it. The difference shows up in renewal structure and in what each includes without asking.
Checking one domain is trivial. Checking four hundred is where tools quietly break, because registries rate-limit, timeouts get reported as available, and you find out at checkout.
Agencies do not have a registrar problem, they have a custody problem. Whose account holds the client’s domain, what happens when the relationship ends, and who gets the expiry email. Pick for that and the rest follows.
The hour after checkout is the cheapest time to prevent every common way a domain is lost. Twelve steps, most of them free, most of them under a minute.
Two completely different products share the name "domain monitoring". One watches whether your website responds. The other watches whether you still own the domain. Here is how to tell them apart and which tool fits which job.
Run the same domain through three availability checkers and you can get three answers. The reason is not a conspiracy, it is that most tools guess from DNS instead of asking the registry. Here is how to get a definitive answer.
GoDaddy is the largest registrar in the world and Namecheap built a brand on being the cheaper one. On the first year that is barely true. On renewals, which is what you actually pay, the gap is wide.
We sync live prices from four registrars every night. Across the nine most popular extensions, the cheapest first-year price is almost never the cheapest domain. On .ai the gap over five years is $716.
Most portfolios fail in the same six ways: a card that expired, a domain nobody owns internally, a lock that was never on. A practical annual audit you can run in an afternoon.
One is the address. The other is the building. They are sold together so often that most people never learn they are separate purchases, and that confusion is what makes migrations painful.
A business email at your own domain costs about a dollar a month and takes twenty minutes. Here is exactly how it works, what every provider charges in 2026, and the one record that decides whether your mail lands or vanishes.
Domains fail silently. Nothing tells you when a nameserver changes, when a certificate is about to expire, or when the name you have been waiting three months for finally drops. Here is what to watch and how.
The transfer itself is six steps and mostly waiting. The part that breaks sites is what does not come with it. Here is the full sequence, the timing rules that can block you, and the settings you must copy across first.
How to confirm whether a domain actually changed hands, what to do in the first hour, and why the registrar field in the public record is the fact that settles it.
An expired domain is not a free domain. It goes through roughly 80 days of stages, only one of which is published anywhere, and at the end of it the good names are gone in milliseconds. Here is the whole timeline.
A domain name is a lease on a pointer, not a purchase of a place. Here is what you are actually renting, who the three parties are, and exactly what happens in the half second between someone typing your name and your site appearing.
Most guides tell you to run a WHOIS lookup and stop there. Since 2018 that lookup usually returns a redacted record. Here is what is still public, what it tells you, and the legitimate ways to reach an owner whose name is hidden.
A blocked transfer is almost always a lock, and usually one your own registrar applied. Here is every status code and time-based rule that can stop a transfer, who controls each one, and how to tell which is holding your domain.
A practical, research-informed guide to choosing a domain name. Covers memorability, extensions, spelling, length, keywords, legal risks, and a scoring framework you can use today.