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Settings > Domains is where every domain your account uses lives. Buy a new one, move one you already own from another registrar, and see the health of everything connected to your sites.
A domain belongs to your account, not to a single project. One domain can serve several sites and environments, which is why this page sits in account settings rather than inside a project.

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What is on the page

Find a domain

Live availability and pricing across every extension we offer. Buy in a few clicks.

Move a domain you already own

Bring a domain here from GoDaddy, Namecheap or anywhere else, without breaking your email.

DNS report

A read-only health check on any domain. Where its DNS lives, whether its email is set up correctly.

Connected domains

Every domain attached to a site, with its certificate and verification state.

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Connected domains

Each row groups a domain with every hostname using it, across all your sites and environments. Expand a row to see which project each hostname serves and the state of its certificate. A domain shows Live when every hostname under it is verified with an active certificate, and Needs attention otherwise.
Domains you connected before this page existed appear here automatically. You do not need to re-add anything.

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The DNS report

Enter any domain and we read its nameservers directly and tell you what we find. Nothing is changed, and the domain does not have to be connected to Hiveku. It reports:
The report is a health check, not a complete inventory of your zone. Probing cannot find a wildcard record, an unusual hostname, or a provider that uses a random DKIM selector such as Amazon SES or HubSpot. The report names its own blind spots every time it runs. Always review your own records before changing nameservers.

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Renewals

Domains registered through Hiveku renew automatically, one year at a time, charged to the card on file for your account. We email you at 35, 28, 21, 14, 7 and 3 days before expiry so a failed card has time to be fixed.
Expiry is not a soft deadline. On the day a domain expires your website and your email stop working together, because the registry stops answering for the domain entirely. About a month later the name can be sold to someone else. Keep a valid card on file.

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Who is the registrar

Hiveku is a reseller. Domains are registered through our accredited registrar partner, who appears as the registrar in the public WHOIS record for your domain. That means you will receive some emails directly from them rather than from us, and those emails are genuine:
ICANN requires the registry to verify the contact details on every domain. You get an email asking you to confirm them. If nobody clicks it within fifteen days the domain is suspended, which takes the website and the email offline until it is resolved. Use an email address you actually read, and never one on the domain you are registering.
Once a year the registrar sends you the contact record it holds, and asks you to correct it if anything is wrong. Inaccurate details are grounds for cancelling a domain.
You get notices before and shortly after expiry. These come in addition to ours.
When you move a domain in, the registry emails the administrative contact to approve it. Nothing moves until that link is clicked.

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Next

Buy a domain

Search, pick a term, and register.

Move a domain in

Transfer from another registrar without breaking email.