Domain Names

Find an available domain name

Search 380 extensions with live pricing. Use traditional, brandable and creative search to find a name you can register, and read a suggestion properly.

Understand the three naming styles

Three controls change what a domain search does. Traditional finds names made of real words, Brandable invents them, and Creative reads a description.

How to register and set up a domain name

Register a domain name from the search box, pay for the first year up front, then manage the nameservers, the DNS records and auto-renew from one panel.

Change the nameservers for a domain name

Point a domain at different nameservers from the toolbox. What changes, what does not, and why new records can take a day to appear everywhere.

Connect Cloudflare to manage DNS

Link a Cloudflare zone to a domain with an API token, so the toolbox manages the records where they already live. What the token can and cannot do.

Transfer a domain name in to EnterraHost

Move a domain from another registrar to us. Get the transfer code, turn off the lock, and understand why a recently registered domain cannot be moved yet.

Transfer a .co.za domain

To transfer a .co.za domain you release the registrar lock and approve by email. What carries across unchanged, what is never charged, and where it stalls.

Manage the DNS records for a domain name

Add and edit the records that run your domain from the toolbox, what each record type is actually for, and how to read one that has stopped working.

Turn on WHOIS privacy for a domain name

What WHOIS privacy hides, which extensions redact your details at registry level with nothing to turn on, and which ones leave the choice to you.

Turn on auto-renew for a domain name

Turn auto-renew on from the toolbox. A renewal invoice is raised before the expiry date, and paying it extends the registration of the domain by another year.

Why, and how, to renew a domain name early

Renew a domain before its expiry date from the toolbox, what auto-renew adds on top, and the grace period you should never plan around or rely on.

Understand a premium domain name and its price

Why one domain costs a hundred times another, whether paying for a premium name is ever worth it, and how to tell one before you get attached to it.

Recover a domain after it lapses

What happens between expiry and deletion, why the cost jumps at each stage, and why some extensions charge a restore fee while others do not.

Lock and unlock a domain name

What the registrar lock actually protects, when it has to come off, and why an unlocked domain can still be refused a transfer by the registry itself.