Register a domain

Register a domain when you want Coritan to hold its registration as well as its DNS. The domain is yours for the period you pay for, starts on Coritan's nameservers, and can have its DNS zone, a certificate and a web proxy set up at the same time.

• Make sure your account credit covers the price for the whole period. Coritan takes it before it registers the domain (Add credit).
• Check the prices: select View domain prices in the Websites list's More website actions menu.

1. In the dashboard, go to Websites and select Register domain….
2. Enter the Domain name, such as example.com, and select Search.
3. Read the result. The dialog says whether the domain is available, shows its Price per year, and marks a premium domain, whose price its registry sets. If it is taken, select Back and search for another name.
4. Choose the Registration period, from 1 to 10 years.
5. Choose the options:
   • Issue an SSL certificate (on at first) requests a certificate for the web proxy that the next option sets up.
   • Set up a proxy route (off at first) creates a web proxy for the domain.
   • WHOIS privacy (off at first) hides your contact details from public WHOIS lookups.
6. Select Register domain.

The dashboard confirms that the domain is registered, and it appears in the Websites list. The registration starts with:

• the transfer lock and auto-renew on, and WHOIS privacy on if you chose it;
• Coritan's nameservers, ns1.coritan.com to ns8.coritan.com;
• a DNS zone hosted on Coritan, signed with DNSSEC, when Issue an SSL certificate or Set up a proxy route was on.

The web proxy that Set up a proxy route creates has no origin of yours yet, so visitors see an error until you set its origin. Coritan requests the certificate only for that proxy. With Set up a proxy route off, issue the certificate from the domain's SSL tab once you need one.

Next, add the domain's DNS records.

Insufficient credit balance. Required: 22.49 USD, available: 10.00

The account credit does not cover the price for the period. Add credit, or choose a shorter period.

Domain is not available for registration

Someone else holds the domain. Search for another name.

Domain already registered in our system

The domain is already registered through Coritan, on your account or another.

Registration failed: … or Registrar error: …

The registry refused the registration or did not answer. Coritan gives back the charge. Try again later.

Invalid domain name format

Enter the bare domain, such as example.com, without https:// or a path.

• How domain registration works
• Renew a domain
• Turn on WHOIS privacy and transfer lock

Check the name first. The price is per year, as a string:

curl -X POST https://api.coritan.com/api/v1/domains/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CORITAN_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain": "example.com"}'

{"domain": "example.com", "available": true, "price": "14.99", "currency": "USD", "premium": false}

Then register it. The body takes domain, duration (1–10 years, 1 when you leave it out), whois_privacy, auto_ssl, auto_proxy and, optionally, nameservers, a list of the nameservers to start with instead of Coritan's.

curl -X POST https://api.coritan.com/api/v1/domains/register \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CORITAN_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain": "example.com", "duration": 2, "whois_privacy": true, "auto_ssl": true, "auto_proxy": false}'

The answer is 201 with the registration, in the shape How domain registration works shows. dns_zone_id names the DNS zone Coritan created, and proxy_route_id the web proxy.