About

yellow.domains registers domain names and shows what each one costs — both the first year and every year after it — before you decide.

The thing we do differently

Most of this industry sells the first year. A name is advertised at a couple of dollars, renews at twenty or more, and the second price is a line in a table somewhere you did not look. Nothing about that is illegal and everyone does it, which is exactly why it is worth not doing.

Every result on this site carries both numbers. The search box shows them. The endings table shows them. Each cart line shows them. If a name is cheap now and expensive later, you find that out while you are still choosing, rather than eleven months on.

What comes with a domain

WHOIS privacy is included on every ending that permits it, rather than sold as an upgrade. Renewal reminders go out 30, 14 and 3 days before expiry, and renewing is one page and one payment. There is no auto-renewal: we do not store your card, so a domain is never charged for without you deciding to. The trade is that the reminders matter, which is why there are three of them.

The free tools

The lookup tools need no account and are not a lead-capture form in disguise. They query public registry and DNS infrastructure directly and show you the answer. If the answer is that a domain is taken and you should go elsewhere, they say that too.

The guides exist for the same reason: most domain problems are small and specific, and the explanation is usually buried in a support article written for someone who already understands DNS.

Where things stand

Availability checks and every tool answer from real registry data, and registration is live — names bought here are registered with our registrar and appear under My Domains, where you can edit DNS records and renew.

Transfers in are not open yet, and it is better to say so than to let you find out. Auto-renewal is a different matter: it is not coming. Charging a card without you present means storing it, and that is the part of this business with the most ways to go wrong for you. So nothing renews by itself, we write three times before a name expires, and renewing is one page. The trade is that those reminders matter, which is why there are three of them and why the address on your account should not be one that depends on the domain being renewed.