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If you are on a paid plan and have set up billing with Bolt, you can buy custom domains directly through your account to pair with your Bolt hosting.

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How to purchase a domain

To purchase a domain using Bolt and attach it to your project, follow these steps: Screencapture of buying a domain in Bolt
  1. Click the gear icon in the top center of your screen, then click All project settings.
  2. Click Domains & Hosting.
  3. Click Buy a new domain.
  4. Enter your domain keyword or phrase.
  5. Click Search.
  6. Review the available list of domains.
    You’ll see a warning if there’s a problem with the domain you searched for, such as if it’s already registered.
  7. Click Buy next to your preferred domain.
  8. Choose to Purchase domain or Cancel the purchase.
Once you’ve purchased your domain, it will show up in the Domains & Hosting window of your Project settings. You’ll need to wait up to 24 hours for the domains to properly attach to your project and for the SSL certificates to generate.
To learn more about your rights as a domain owner, see the ICANN article on Registrants’ Benefits and Responsibilities.

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Purchase a domain without attaching it to a project

You can buy a domain and keep it available in your account without connecting it to a specific project. This works well when you want to reserve a name for later. To purchase a domain outside of a specific project, follow these steps:
  1. Log in to a Bolt project.
  2. Click your profile avatar in the top-right corner of the screen.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Click Cloud.
  5. Click the Custom Domains tab.
  6. Click Buy a new domain.
  7. Search for the domain you want and complete the purchase.
After checkout, the domain appears in your domains list. It is owned by your account and stays unattached, so it does not point to any project until you choose to connect it. Once you’re ready to connect it to a project, see How to connect a domain previously purchased through Bolt.
When you buy a domain from the Domains & Hosting tab inside a project, the domain is linked to that project right away. When you buy from Cloud > Custom Domains, the domain stays unattached and available for future use.

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Domain Renewals

When you purchase a domain through Bolt, the renewal cost is shown during checkout. By default, domains purchased through Bolt are set to auto-renew at the shown cost. You can review the renewal cost at any time and choose whether to turn domain renewal on or off from the Domain Settings page. To view renewal costs for a specific domain and manage auto-renewal status, follow these steps:
  1. Log in to a Bolt project.
  2. Click your profile avatar in the top-right corner of the screen.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Click Cloud.
  5. Scroll to the bottom and click the three dots next to the domain you want to manage.
  6. Click Open domain settings.
  7. Click Disable auto-renewal or Enable auto-renewal, depending on the current status.
How auto-renewal works When auto-renewal is enabled, Bolt charges the card on file 1 month and 5 days before the official renewal date. If the first payment attempt fails, Bolt makes another attempt 5 days before the renewal date.
To keep a domain active, auto-renewal must be enabled no later than 6 days before the expiration date.

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Purchasing failures due to billing issues

To buy a custom domain through Bolt, you must have billing set up with a valid payment method on your account. If no card is on file, the purchase will fail, and you’ll see an error message saying “Something went wrong,” as shown in the screenshot below: Screenshot of error message provided when billing failure occurs due to lack of card on file

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Domain types (TLDs)

A domain name ends with what’s called a top-level domain (TLD), such as .com, .org, or .studio. Bolt offers the ability to purchase the most common TLDs directly through the platform, but not every TLD is available. If your domain uses a TLD that Bolt doesn’t sell, you can register it with another provider. Once it’s registered, you can still connect it to your Bolt project by following the steps in Connect your domain.

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WHOIS Privacy

All Bolt domain purchases automatically include domain privacy protection, except for TLDs that do not support it. For example, .us domains do not allow domain privacy. Domain privacy hides your personal contact information from the public WHOIS database, which helps reduce spam and protect you from unwanted contact.