How to register a domain anonymously

Registering a domain normally puts your name, address, email and phone number on record with the registry. WHOIS privacy hides those details from public lookups, but the registrar and the registry still hold them. To keep your name out entirely, the registration has to be in someone else's name.

WHOIS privacy and private registration

• WHOIS privacy: you are the owner on record and your details are hidden from public lookups. The registry still knows who you are.
• Private registration: we are the owner on record and hold the name for you. Your details never reach the registry. You run the name from your account and can move it into your own name, or to another registrar, later.

Every domain at Nyra Host gets free WHOIS privacy, and private registration is the default when you order.

Step by step

1. Search the name on our domains page. The result shows whether it is free and its price per year, the same at every renewal.
2. Sign up with only an email address. No name and no ID.
3. Choose Privately, in our name. Nothing else is asked of you.
4. Pay the invoice with Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum, Solana or XRP. The name is registered the moment the payment confirms.
5. Point it at our nameservers and add DNS records in the client area, or set nameservers of your own, such as Cloudflare's.

The most tolerant extensions: .to, .st and .is

Your host is only half the picture. The registry behind an extension can suspend a name whatever your host does, so the extension matters as much as the server. These three are the most tolerant extensions you can register with us.

• .to, Tonga, $125 a year: open to anyone with no residency rule, and for years the home of some of the largest streaming and file sharing sites on the internet.
• .st, São Tomé and Príncipe, $33 a year: the registry is run from Sweden by Bahnhof, the internet provider known for hosting WikiLeaks, and its terms say it believes in free speech and internet freedom.
• .is, Iceland, $187 a year: the registry, ISNIC, closes a domain over its content at the request of an Icelandic court or Icelandic authorities, and has said in public that suspending domains does more harm than good.

More on our page about tolerant domains.

Extensions with rules

Some extensions only take local owners or companies, and a few are sold several years at a time. Those are marked in the price list, and a person handles the order with you, so the registry never refuses a name you already paid for.

Moving a name later

A name can move to another registrar 60 days after it was registered or moved in. Ask for the transfer code on its page in the client area, a person sends it, and you give it to the new registrar. To become the legal owner yourself, move it into your own name from the same page.