# Domain Chief import {Head, Link} from "zudoku/components"; Developer documentation | Domain Chief Integrate Domain Chief into your application with the REST API, or use Domain Connect to configure DNS through a customer-approved flow. Start with a practical guide for complete workflows, then use the API documentation for individual requests and responses. Looking for help using Domain Chief in the browser? Go to the [Domain Chief documentation](/domainchief/introduction). ## Choose an integration - Use the **REST API** when your application needs to read or manage domains, contacts, DNS records, redirects, or related data directly. - Use the **team event feed** to keep a local copy of domains and contacts current without repeatedly retrieving complete collections. - Use **domain notices** with the REST API to show current problems, available resolutions, and operation progress. - Use **Domain Connect** when your service needs to propose a known set of DNS records for the customer to approve without giving your application API access. ## Developer guides
Build a domain search and pricing workflow

Combine the TLD catalog with exact-name checks and present safe registration or transfer choices.

Manage contacts

Create, reuse, assign, update, and verify contacts used across domain workflows.

Register a domain

Prepare, submit, reconcile, and follow a new registration through its asynchronous result.

Transfer a domain into Domain Chief

Preserve DNS, handle transfer methods, and manage immediate or scheduled incoming transfers.

Sync domains and contacts with your system

Build an initial snapshot, then keep it current with events and targeted batch requests.

Handle domain notices

Present current domain state, offer valid next steps, and follow asynchronous operations.

Integrate with Domain Connect

Publish a DNS template and send customers through Domain Chief's approval flow.

## API documentation
API introduction

Learn the authentication and request basics before making your first call.

Scopes

Give an integration only the Domain Chief permissions it needs.

Metadata

Attach application-specific context to supported Domain Chief resources.

API reference

Inspect the current endpoints, schemas, request fields, and responses.

## Test safely Use [`.example` domains](/domainchief/example-tld) when you want to exercise domain workflows without registering or changing a public domain.