Buy a domain and manage DNS in one place

Buying a domain and pointing it at an app is four systems in most setups: a registrar, a DNS provider, a certificate authority and your hosting. Here it is one command.

cmdz domains buy linktree.dev --attach web

That registers the name, creates the zone, writes the A and AAAA records, requests the certificate and puts the app behind it. About ninety seconds, most of which is the registry.

Search first

cmdz domains search linktree

linktr.ee        taken
linktree.dev     € 14.38/yr  · renews € 14.38
linktree.app     € 16.75/yr  · renews € 16.75
linktree.nl      € 10.20/yr  · renews € 10.20

Notice the second column.

Why the renewal price is always shown

The registrar industry runs on a specific pattern: a first year at € 1, a renewal at € 45, and a checkout flow that only shows you the first number. It is legal, it is common, and it is a dark pattern.

We show both, always, in the search results, in the confirmation, and in the portal. If a name has an expensive renewal you will know before you commit, not eleven months later.

Our margin is a flat 25% over the registry cost, in euros, converted daily. No introductory pricing, no loss-leader first year, no upsell for the WHOIS privacy that should be standard — it is on by default, at no charge, for the extensions that support it.

Why domains are outside your spending limit

This is the one exception to the ceiling, and it deserves an explanation rather than a footnote.

A domain registration is a purchase, not a metered resource. The registry charges us the moment you confirm, and the name is yours for a year whatever happens afterwards.

If domains were inside the limit, then hitting the limit could cause a renewal to fail, and a failed renewal costs you the domain. That is a worse outcome than a separate charge on a card — considerably worse, because a lapsed domain can be caught by a squatter within minutes and is often unrecoverable.

So: charged separately, immediately, on a card, with the price shown before you confirm. Renewals are charged 30 days before expiry, with a reminder, and you can turn auto-renew off.

DNS is ours

Not a wrapper around someone else's API. Authoritative nameservers we run, with an editable zone:

cmdz dns add linktree.dev MX 10 mx1.provider.tld
cmdz dns add linktree.dev TXT "v=spf1 include:provider.tld -all"
cmdz dns list linktree.dev

Three things that come from running it ourselves rather than proxying:

Zone versioning. Every change is a version. A bad edit at midnight is one cmdz dns rollback away from undone, which is a materially different experience from trying to remember what the old record said.

Templates. The records people always forget — SPF, DMARC, MTA-STS, the CAA record that stops another CA issuing for your domain — are one command each, with sane defaults.

Health-driven records. Multiple A and AAAA records with health checks, so a region that stops answering leaves the rotation. This is how you build your own cross-region redundancy.

Certificates

Issued automatically, renewed automatically, wildcards included, at no charge. There is no certificate line item because there is no certificate price.

If you point a domain you own elsewhere at us, add the records we show you and the certificate is issued once they propagate. If you use Cloudflare in front, that works too — it is listed as a subprocessor in the DPA precisely because it is your choice to route through them, not ours.

Transferring a domain in

cmdz domains transfer linktree.dev --auth-code XXXX

The transfer adds a year to the registration, as registry rules require. We show the price for that year before you start.

What we will not do

We will not sell you hosting-adjacent add-ons at checkout. No "SSL certificate" upsell for something included, no "premium DNS" for what is already the DNS, no "domain protection" for the transfer lock that should always be on.

A registrar business built on those upsells makes its money from people who do not know what they are buying. That is not a business we want, and it is not compatible with the rest of this platform.