Domains & DNS
Manage domains, DNS, certificates and drop-catch across every provider.
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Domains
Track, register, transfer and renew domains across every registrar.
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Contacts
Reusable registrant, admin and technical contacts for your domains.
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Drop Catch
Watch expiring domains and register them the moment they drop.
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SSL certificates
Discover, track and check your SSL certificates in one inventory.
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About DNSInfraNest manages the DNS for all your domains in one place, whichever provider hosts it.Add a DNS zoneCreate a DNS zone with a short wizard that does the cross-provider work for you — including pointing your domain at the new provider.Cloudflare settings the advisor checksSome of the most important security settings for a website are not DNS records at all.Check DNS and email securityEach zone has a Security Advisor that checks the DNS records that matter for email delivery and security — reading your domain's live DNS, so it's accurate…Download a zone fileYou can download any DNS zone as a zone file — a plain text file in the standard BIND format that almost every DNS provider, registrar and hosting control…Add and edit DNS recordsAdd, edit and delete DNS records in one editor — InfraNest pushes each change to your provider.Import a zone fileIf you're moving DNS to InfraNest from somewhere else, the fastest and most complete way to bring your records across is to import a zone file — the standard…Domain status codes explainedEvery domain carries a set of status codes set by its registry — pendingDelete, clientTransferProhibited, redemptionPeriod.WHOIS server overridesFor most domain endings, InfraNest finds the right WHOIS server automatically. WHOIS overrides let you tell it which server to use for a specific ending, in…About domainsInfraNest brings all your domains — from every registrar you connect — into one list, so you can see what you own, when each renews, and manage them without…Add and import domainsThere are a few ways to get your domains into InfraNest — and most appear on their own once you connect a registrar.Archive a domain you no longer ownTidy a finished domain out of your list without losing its history — and understand why archiving is not the same as cancelling.See what happened to your domainsThe Domain lifecycle report shows what happened to your domains in a month, quarter or year you choose — registrations, renewals, transfers in and out…Keep a domain secureEvery domain has a Security Advisor that checks how well it's protected and fixes issues in one click — showing only the actions your registrar and domain…Turn on DNSSEC (and what to do when it breaks)DNSSEC signs your DNS answers so nobody can forge them on the way to your visitors.Renew a domainRenew a domain for more years, or turn on auto-renew so it never lapses.Transfer a domain inMove a domain you already own from another registrar to one you've connected to InfraNest — and find out before you start whether it will actually go through.Register a new domainSearch for a domain and register it through one of your connected registrars — without leaving InfraNest.Manage domain contactsYour contact book stores the registrant, admin and technical contacts used for your domains — so you enter them once and reuse them everywhere.Understand the drop-catch scoresEach watched domain gets two separate scores, so you can tell a good name apart from one that's actually being released.About drop-catchDrop-catch watches domains you'd like to own, follows each one as it heads toward expiry, tells you how good the name is and how likely it is to actually be…Catch a dropping domain automaticallyWhen you add a watch, choose how InfraNest should try to get the name when it drops — so you don't have to be at your keyboard at the moment it becomes free.Give yourself the best chance of catching a nameHow hard a name is to catch depends entirely on how many other people want it. InfraNest is honest about this — each watch shows a catchability verdict — and…Watch a domainAdd a domain to your watch list to track it as it heads toward expiry.DNS templatesDNS templates are reusable sets of records you can apply to any zone — handy for standard setups like an email provider's records or your own baseline for…Add a certificateMost certificates appear on their own from your monitors and connected providers, but you can also add one directly by scanning a server or pasting it in.Certificate coverageWhich of your domains have no certificate? InfraNest works that out for you and says so on the certificates list itself — you don't have to compare two lists…About SSL certificatesInfraNest keeps a single inventory of all your SSL/TLS certificates — wherever they live and whoever issued them — tracks when they expire, checks they're…Certificate healthInfraNest checks every certificate it knows about and tells you, in plain words, whether anything is wrong with it — so you find out before your visitors do.Where certificates come fromInfraNest finds your certificates in several ways and combines them all into one deduplicated inventory. Each certificate is labelled with where it was found.