Introduction
Domain Chief is a registrar and domain management service. Use it to register or transfer domains, manage contacts and nameservers, edit hosted DNS records, and configure web or mail redirects. Domain registrations use WHOIS privacy by default where the registry supports it.
Guides
Choose the guide that matches what you want to do:
Domain management
Set up your team, verify its contact, review defaults, and register a free test domain.
Search availability, compare registration and renewal prices, and choose DNS and contact settings.
Move a domain into Domain Chief, transfer it elsewhere, or resolve a transfer that has not completed.
Respond to payment, verification, registration, transfer, restoration, and failed-update notices.
Find, group, export, and safely update domains from one overview.
Change auto-renewal, configure reminders, and respond to expiration or deletion.
Create registrant contacts, manage privacy, and complete contact verification.
DNS and services
Add and troubleshoot website, email, verification, and other hosted DNS records.
Move between DNS providers without losing records or breaking DNSSEC.
Connect a Cloudflare account and retrieve DNSSEC keys for its domains.
Import an existing zone, preview the changes, and handle record conflicts.
Send a domain or subdomain to another URL with Domain Chief hosted DNS.
Forward addresses to existing inboxes and understand the DNS and billing changes.
Tools and billing
Search supported extensions, compare team pricing, and find the final price for an operation.
Pay waiting operations, preview an invoice, and estimate annual renewal costs.
Connect an MCP-compatible AI client and control which Domain Chief tools it may use.
Try registration, transfers, DNS, contacts, and failure cases without using a public domain.