Terms

These cover buying a domain here, and using the site and its free tools. They describe what the site actually does. Where something is not built, it says so rather than reserving the right.

Version 2026-10-20d

Who you are contracting with

yellow.domains is operated by The Institute for Smart Applications, a business registered in Kfar Saba, Israel, registration number 032445678, reachable at hello@yellow.domains.

We are a reseller, not the registrar of record. Registrations are executed through our account at Domain Name API and filed by Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş. (IANA 1601), the ICANN-accredited registrar of record, which holds your registration with the registry. That is the name to give if you ever need to escalate past us — and it is the reason your domain does not depend on this business continuing to exist.

What you are buying

A domain registration is the exclusive right to use a name for a fixed term, granted by the registry that runs the ending. You are not buying the name outright and there is no freehold in a domain. When the term ends the right ends with it, unless it is renewed.

We currently sell new registrations and renewals. Transfers in are not built yet and checkout refuses them rather than taking money for something that cannot be delivered.

Your right to cancel, and how you give it up

If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract without giving a reason. A domain registration is an exception to that, but only on a condition, and the condition is yours to grant.

Registering a name is immediate and irreversible. The registry executes it the moment we ask, charges its fee, and will not take the name back. So at checkout we ask you to confirm two things: that you want us to register immediately, and that you understand you lose the right to cancel once we have. We record that you confirmed it, and which version of these terms you confirmed it under. If you do not want to confirm it, do not complete the purchase — there is no way for us to register a name later while keeping the right to cancel it open.

Until the registration is executed, the right stands. If you want to withdraw in that window, or you believe you were charged without the name being registered, write to hello@yellow.domains with your order and we will deal with it. You do not need a particular form of words.

This does not remove any protection you have under the consumer law of the country you live in. Where that law gives you more than this page does, it is that law that applies.

Paying, and what happens if we cannot deliver

Payment is taken on Cardcom's hosted page; card details never reach our servers. Prices are re-derived on our side before anything is charged, so the price that applies is the one our server confirms at checkout, not the one your browser was holding.

If a name turns out to be unavailable after payment, or the registration fails for any other reason, that line is refunded to the same card and the email tells you which lines and why. We start the refund as soon as the order settles, and it reaches you in three to ten business days — that is the card network's timetable, not ours, and we cannot make it faster. Some refunds we cannot start automatically; those are recorded as owed to you and made by hand, on the same timetable. We do not knowingly hold money for a domain we have not registered, and if you think one has been missed, write to us — we keep a list of what is owed and work through it.

A domain we did register cannot be refunded, because the registry fee is spent and the name is yours. That is the trade described above.

When we will not sell you a domain

We can refuse an order, and cancel one we have already taken, at any point before the name is registered. Three things cause that. A payment our provider flags as unlikely to be yours to make. A name ordered plainly for one of the uses set out under “What you may not use a domain here for”. Or a sanctions rule: the registries, our registrar and our payment provider are each bound by embargo and restricted-party lists, Israeli law binds us directly, and a name that cannot lawfully be registered for you will not be, however the order was placed.

We do not run a screening programme of our own. We act on what the payment provider tells us and on what is plain on the face of an order. Where we cancel before registering, the money goes back in full, on the refund timetable above. Once a name is registered we cannot undo it — that is the same trade as everywhere else on this page. If we have read you wrong, write to hello@yellow.domains; we would rather reverse a bad call than defend one.

Renewals

Nothing renews by itself. We do not store your card, so there is no auto-renewal to fail silently and no charge you did not initiate. We write to you 30, 14 and 3 days before a name expires, and renewing is one page.

That puts the responsibility on the reminders reaching you, so keep the email address on your account working, and preferably not one that depends on the domain you are renewing. After expiry a name goes through a redemption period where recovering it costs far more than renewing, and then it is released. We cannot hold a name that has been released.

What we need from you

ICANN requires registrant contact details to be accurate, and obliges a registrar to act on details that are not. Giving us a false name, address or phone number can get the domain suspended, and that is a registry decision rather than ours. Keep them current, and reply if the registrar emails you to verify them — the registrar gives you 15 days, and an unanswered verification email suspends the domain until it is answered.

You need to be old enough, and otherwise able, to enter a contract where you live. If you are ordering for a company or for a client, you need their authority to put their name on the registration. The registrant name is the one the registry answers to, not the name on the card — and if two people later claim the same domain, we are the wrong venue for that, the same as for any other dispute about a name.

Your rights as a registrant

These domains are registered through Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş. (IANA 1601), an ICANN-accredited registrar, and the rights ICANN gives you as a registrant apply here in full. They are not ours to reduce, and some of them are easy to lose track of when buying through a reseller rather than from the registrar directly.

The two worth reading before you buy anything are ICANN's Registrants' Benefits and Responsibilities and its Registrant Educational Information. They cover what a registrar may and may not do, how transfers and renewals are supposed to work, and where to complain if one of them does not.

If anything we do contradicts them, they win — and we would rather hear about it than have you find out from ICANN's complaint form.

What else you are agreeing to

Buying a name here puts you into agreements that are not ours. The registrar has its own registration agreement and you become the registrant under it, exactly as you would buying direct; it is published by the registrar and worth reading. Each registry also sets its own rules for the ending it runs.

One consequence is worth knowing before you spend anything. Someone holding a trademark can challenge your name outside the courts, and a panel can order it cancelled or moved to them. For .com, .net, .org and the other generic endings that is ICANN's dispute policy, and those endings also run a faster suspension procedure alongside it. .io, .ai and .co are country-code endings ICANN does not govern; each of those registries runs its own version and the detail differs. A decision against you is not necessarily the end of it — under ICANN's policy you have ten business days to take it to a court, which holds the transfer while the court looks. We are not a party to any of this and cannot argue your case. We will pass on whatever the registrar sends us.

A name lost that way is not refunded, for the reason given above.

What you may not use a domain here for

A domain bought here must not be used for phishing, malware distribution, botnet command and control, or the bulk sending of unsolicited email. It must not be used to impersonate a bank, a government body, a payment provider or anyone else in order to obtain credentials or money, and it must not host material that is unlawful where it is hosted or where it is read.

Report any of that to abuse@yellow.domains. Tell us the domain and what you saw; a link or a message header is enough. We read that address every working day and reply to say what we found, whether or not we act.

What we can do about it is narrower than people expect, and worth stating plainly. We do not host anything, so we cannot take a page down. What we can do is disable the DNS for a domain registered here, which stops it resolving, and pass the report to the registrar, who can suspend the registration itself. We will do the first where a report is clear and the harm is ongoing, and tell the registrant that we have and why. Where it is genuinely a dispute between two parties about content or a trademark, we are the wrong venue: that is a matter for the courts or for ICANN's dispute procedure, and we will not take a side in it.

We do not refund a domain we disable for abuse.

Your email address is the key

There is no password here. A domain is held against an email address, signing in means clicking a single-use link sent to it, and the authorisation code for a transfer goes to that same address. Whoever can read that mailbox can move your domain — which is the more expensive reason for the advice above about renewal reminders: secure that address properly, and do not let it be one that depends on a domain you hold here.

If someone who can read your email asks us for a transfer code, we cannot tell them apart from you. What we can do is send the code only ever to the registrant address, never to a different address given in the request, so a request from someone who cannot read that mailbox gets nowhere. Against someone who can, it does not help.

So write to hello@yellow.domains as soon as you lose control of the address and we will stop acting on anything sent from it. There is nothing automatic to fall back on: putting the domain under a new address means showing the order was yours — the payment reference, the registrant details we hold — and we do that by hand.

Transfers away, and the 60-day lock

The domain is yours and you may move it to another registrar. Most generic endings are locked against transfer for 60 days after registration; that is an ICANN rule, not ours, and we cannot waive it. After that, ask us at hello@yellow.domains for the authorisation code and we will send it to the registrant address. We do not charge for leaving and we do not make you ask twice.

Lookup results are point-in-time

Availability, WHOIS, DNS and certificate results reflect what public registry and DNS infrastructure returned at the moment you asked. Domain availability in particular changes continuously: a name shown as available can be registered by someone else seconds later. Results are cached for up to two minutes, so they may already be slightly stale when you read them.

Some registries do not publish RDAP, .co among them. For endings we sell we ask our registrar instead, so those still answer. For anything else the site reports “no answer” rather than guessing, and a blank answer is never an indication that a name is free.

Prices

Listed prices are in USD and cover the first registration year and the renewal year, as shown. Registry and registrar pricing changes, and prices here follow it. A price you were shown is not a promise about next year; the renewal figure beside it is our current one, and it can move.

The figure at checkout is the whole figure. No Israeli VAT is added, and nothing is added after it. What can differ is your bank: a USD charge on a card billed in another currency usually picks up a conversion or foreign-transaction fee from your own issuer. That one is theirs, we never see it, and it is why the amount on your statement can sit a little above the amount on this page.

Using the tools

The tools are provided for ordinary diagnostic use — checking a domain you own, are considering, or are troubleshooting. Automated scraping, bulk querying beyond the published limits, or any use that would breach the acceptable-use policies of the registries and resolvers behind them is not permitted. Rate limits apply and are enforced by those upstream services as well as by us.

No warranty on the tools and guides

The tools and guides are provided as they are. They query third-party infrastructure that can be slow, rate-limited, or wrong, and the site cannot guarantee that any result is complete or current. Decisions with money or deadlines attached — a transfer window, an expiry date, a certificate renewal — should be confirmed with your registrar or host directly. The guides are general explanation, not advice about your specific setup.

This paragraph is about the free tools. It does not limit what we owe you for a domain you paid for, and nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

What we are liable for

If we get something wrong — charge you twice, send an authorisation code to the wrong place, miss a reminder we said we would send — we fix it, and if money is owed we return it in full. What we cannot carry is what happens downstream of a domain: the business a dark site did not do, the mail that bounced, the customers who did not find you. Across everything you might claim about a domain, what we owe you is limited to what you paid us for that domain.

That is a low limit and worth reading twice. A domain costs tens of dollars and a site going dark can cost far more than that. The limit is there because this is one person reselling registrations at a small margin over the registry fee. If the names you are registering carry more risk than that number, register them somewhere whose liability matches, and we would rather say so than take the order.

This does not cover anything we did deliberately or recklessly, anything the law does not allow us to limit, or the money itself — a refund you are owed is owed in full whatever this paragraph says. As everywhere on this page, where the consumer law of the country you live in gives you more, it is that law that applies.

A claim caused by your own name

A name is chosen by you and not by us, and we do not check it against anyone's trademarks before we register it. Where a registry runs a trademark claims period, you will see the notice it sends at checkout; outside that window no such check happens.

If a claim reaches us because of a name you registered or what you did with it, the reasonable cost of answering it is yours, to the extent it comes from your own choice or your own use. We will tell you on the first working day after it arrives, send you everything we received, and let you take the defence on yourself if you would rather. We will not settle it over your head, and we will not charge you for a cost we could have avoided.

This is about claims your own use causes. It is not a way of making you pay for something we got wrong, and it does not take away a protection the consumer law where you live gives you.

If something goes wrong

Write to hello@yellow.domains. We would rather hear about it than have you go to your card issuer, and a chargeback costs us more than fixing the problem does. Israeli law governs these terms, and a claim against us goes to the courts in Kfar Saba, where the business is registered — which again does not displace the consumer protections of the country you live in, or your right to bring a claim there if its law gives you one.

Changes

These terms carry a version, shown at the top. An order is governed by the version in force when it was placed, and we record which one that was. A later change does not reach back into a domain you already bought.