Purchasing and renewing domains

Buy a domain through runlot and we set up the DNS zone and the records your app needs at the same time.

Purchases currently go to the registrar's test environment. The dashboard shows a test-mode banner and asks you to confirm it; the domain is not actually registered and nothing is charged. Real purchases open together with billing.

runlot domains check example.com my-app.dev --org me

runlot domains buy example.com --years 1

--years accepts 1 to 10 years and defaults to 1. Provide registrant contact details with --contact-json <file>, or omit it and the command will prompt you.

When you purchase a domain, it is registered with runlot's nameservers already configured, and the DNS zone plus the records for connecting your app are created along with it. You can connect it to a project right after the purchase.

Importing an existing domain

runlot domains import example.com

Listing and details

runlot domains list
runlot domains show example.com

The show command also displays recent history such as registrations, renewals, and transfer lock changes.

Renewals

runlot domains renew example.com --years 1

Domain auto-renewal is always on. To keep your domain from expiring, runlot renews it first and bills you afterwards. We attempt to bill 30 days before expiry, and if that fails we retry 7 days and 1 day before expiry.

Locks

runlot domains lock example.com
runlot domains unlock example.com

This is the domain transfer lock. When it's on, transfer requests to another registrar are rejected.

Transferring to another registrar

We don't restrict domain transfers. See Transfers for the procedure.