Register, Transfer and Renew Any TLD Beside Your Servers
Customers find businesses online first, and the address they type or click is the first thing they learn about you. A good domain name says who you are and what you sell before the page even loads. It links your brand to the searches people make and gives every email, invoice and social profile a consistent home.
That is why we treat the domain as part of the hosting setup rather than an afterthought. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can pick a name that fits their market and the rules of the country they target, and through us they can register, transfer and renew practically any extension: classic generic TLDs such as .com, country-code domains such as .ae or .co.uk, and the newer generic extensions.
Managing domains in the same client area as your VPS, dedicated server or web hosting removes a lot of small friction. Renewals sit on the same invoices, DNS changes go through the same support desk, and pointing a name at a new server does not mean logging into a second provider whose password you forgot two years ago.
Below you will find how registration works with us, the security and automation features included, a plain-English guide to the different kinds of extensions, and answers to the questions we hear most often about DNS and WHOIS.
Domain Registration Periods and Name Length Rules
Every extension comes with rules set by its registry. For most of them you can register a name for anywhere from one to ten years at a time, and each label, the part between the dots, can be up to 63 characters long. Letters, numbers and hyphens are allowed, but a name cannot start or end with a hyphen.
Some registries add their own conditions. A few country-code domains require a minimum period longer than one year; Pakistan's .pk, for example, is registered for two years at a time. Others ask for a local presence, a trademark or company documents before they will approve the name. When you order a domain that carries such restrictions, we let you know what the registry needs and help you supply it.
Shorter is usually better in practice, even though 63 characters are allowed. A name that fits on a business card, is easy to say over the phone and has no ambiguous spelling will save you lost visitors and misdirected email for years.
Registering for several years at once is a small but useful safeguard. It reduces the number of renewal deadlines you need to watch, and it protects a valuable brand name from accidental expiry if a card or contact address changes.
Automatic Domain Renewal With Account Credit
Expired domains are one of the most common and most avoidable outages on the internet. A website, email and every link that points to it can stop working overnight because a renewal invoice went to an old inbox. Our domain automation is designed to make that much less likely.
You can pay in advance and keep the amount as credit in your account management panel. When a renewal invoice is released, you simply settle it from your client area using that credit, and the domain is renewed for the next year. Customers who prefer not to think about it can keep enough credit loaded to cover upcoming renewals.
Renewal invoices appear in the client area before the expiry date, giving you time to decide whether to keep each name. If you hold domains you no longer need, such as an old campaign name or a typo variant, letting them lapse is just as easy as renewing.
Keep your account email address current and check it regularly. Registries and registrars send expiry and verification notices there, and a missed verification can suspend a domain even when it is fully paid.
Registrar Lock and Safer Domain Transfers
Domains registered through us are locked by design. The lock means no other registrar can transfer the name away without your action, which protects you from hijacking attempts and from transfers started by mistake. It is the single most effective way to keep a domain safe, so we recommend leaving it on.
When you do want to move a domain, for example to consolidate names with another provider, you can unlock it yourself from the client area and request the authorization code. Once the transfer completes, the lock should go back on at the new registrar.
Transfers into our account work the other way round: unlock the name at your current registrar, obtain the authorization code and start the transfer here. For most generic domains, a transfer also adds a year to the registration. Keep in mind that common generic extensions usually cannot be transferred within 60 days of registration or a previous transfer.
Country-code domains often follow their own process, sometimes with registry approval or contact confirmation. If you plan to bring a ccTLD over, open a ticket first and we will explain what that particular registry requires.
Parking Extra Domains on Your Hosting Account
Many businesses own more than one domain: the main brand, a country version, a common misspelling or a short campaign name. If you already have a hosting service with us and a website set up, you can point those extra names at the same site instead of building separate pages for each.
Suppose your main website runs on a .com address and you also register the .co.uk version for British customers. You can add the .co.uk as a parked domain in your hosting control panel, and visitors who type either address will reach the same site. The same approach works for regional extensions, hyphenated variants and old brand names you still want to capture.
For search engines, it is usually best to redirect secondary names permanently to the main address rather than serving identical copies of the site. Your control panel's redirect tools or a short rule in your web server configuration handle this cleanly.
Parked and redirected names also protect your brand. A competitor or squatter cannot register a variation you already hold, and customers who guess your address will find you rather than someone else's page. Parking is available on our web hosting plans with a control panel.
Managed DNS Records Updated on Request
DNS records tell the internet where your domain's website, email and other services live. For many popular extensions you can manage nameservers and records yourself, but a number of registries do not allow full self-service through the client area. In those cases our team makes the changes for you.
Just open a ticket with what you need. We can update A records pointing to a server's IPv4 address, CNAME aliases for subdomains, TXT records for SPF, DKIM, DMARC or domain verification, PTR records for reverse DNS on your server IPs, nameserver changes, and redirection set on the domain panel side.
Clear requests are completed faster. Include the domain, the exact record type, host name and value, and whether an old record should be removed. If you are verifying a domain for an email or analytics service, paste the record exactly as that service provides it.
Remember that DNS changes take time to spread. Most resolvers pick up new records within minutes to a few hours depending on the previous record's TTL, while nameserver changes can take longer. Lowering the TTL a day before a planned server move makes the switch much smoother.
WHOIS Management and Domain Privacy Protection
WHOIS is the public query-and-response system for domain registration data. A WHOIS lookup shows when a domain was registered and when it expires, which registrar manages it, its nameservers and status, and in some cases contact details for the owner. It is how people check whether a name is taken and who to contact about it.
You can manage your WHOIS contact information from the client area. Keep it accurate: registries can suspend domains with false or outdated contact data, and the registrant email is where verification and transfer requests are sent.
Privacy protection hides your personal details from the public record where the extension supports it. That cuts down on spam, unsolicited sales calls and scraping of your address. Since data protection rules came into force in Europe, many registries already redact personal data by default, but privacy protection still adds a layer for extensions that would otherwise publish it.
Not every country-code registry allows privacy services, and some require the real owner's details to remain visible. If privacy is important for a particular name, ask us before ordering which options apply to that extension.
Generic, Country-Code and New gTLD Extensions
A domain name has two main parts: the name you choose and the extension after the last dot. In vpsandserver.com, vpsandserver is the name and .com is the extension. Common examples include .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .name, .eu, .org.uk and .co.uk.
Generic top-level domains. The first top-level domains, created in the 1980s and now recorded in the root zone managed through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), included .com, .org, .net, .gov, .edu and .mil. Over the following decades more generic extensions were added, such as .biz, .info, .aero, .coop, .mobi, .travel, .jobs, .tel and .asia, each aimed at a type of use or community.
Country-code TLDs. ccTLDs are two-letter extensions tied to a country or territory, for example .us for the United States, .in for India, .ae for the UAE and .pk for Pakistan. Many countries also offer second-level variants for specific uses, such as .com.au in Australia, .co.uk in the United Kingdom and .com.sa in Saudi Arabia.
New gTLDs. Since the expansion program that opened in the 2010s, hundreds of new generic extensions have launched, from .app, .shop and .online to city and industry names. They give more choice when the .com you wanted is taken, and many can be searched and registered through us.
Picking a Domain Name Your Customers Remember
A domain should be distinctive and easy to remember. Before registering, say it out loud and imagine a customer typing it after hearing it once. If you need to add "with a hyphen" or "spelled with a k", consider a simpler alternative.
Match the extension to your market. A business selling mainly in the UAE gains local trust from a .ae name, a Pakistani company may prefer .pk or .com.pk, and a brand with international ambitions usually wants the .com as well. Registering both the global and the local version is common, with one redirecting to the other.
Check for conflicts before you commit. Search for existing trademarks and businesses with similar names in your country, and look at social media handles so your brand can be consistent everywhere. A name that is free as a domain may still be risky if a large company already uses it.
If the exact name you want is taken, try a short prefix or suffix, a different new gTLD that describes your sector, or a country-code extension. A lost .com is sometimes available again later, and our search can show you alternatives you might not have considered.