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Who owns the domain
When you buy a domain through Tofu, you are its registrant: the domain is registered in your name, and you are its legal owner. Tofu resells registrations and is not an ICANN-accredited registrar. The registrar is name.com. By buying, you accept name.com's Domain Name Registration Agreement, which applies alongside these terms, together with the policies it includes.
Your rights as a registrant are set out by ICANN, in Registrants’ Benefits and Responsibilities and ICANN’s information for registrants.
Which domains Tofu sells, and for which apps
Where the Domains page offers buying, Tofu sells standard-priced names ending in .com, .net, .org, .app or .dev for which name.com's price to Tofu, when you buy, is at most US$20 for the first year and at most US$30 for a year's renewal. It does not sell premium names, or names under a trademark claim.
You can buy a domain for one of your apps when that app's plan includes connecting a domain and Tofu can point the domain at the app straight away; the Domains page says when an app can't take one yet. A free trial of the Pro plan doesn't include buying a domain; connecting a domain you already own works during the trial. A name Tofu doesn't sell can be bought at any registrar and connected to your app.
How long you register it for
At checkout you choose how many years to register the domain for: one year, or more where the Domains page offers it, up to 10 years. A registration of more than one year is sold only while name.com charges Tofu at most US$40 for the whole term. You pay for the whole term at once, and after it the domain renews one year at a time.
Your details
At checkout you give the domain owner's name, postal address, email address and phone number. Tofu sends them to name.com, as every registration requires, and doesn't keep a copy: it keeps only the owner's country, for its checks on the payment. The details must be accurate, and you keep them up to date in the domain's Owner details on the Domains page. Changing the owner's name, organization or email makes name.com ask the owner to confirm again, and a new owner name or organization can stop the domain moving to another registrar for 60 days.
name.com emails the owner a link to confirm these details, as ICANN requires. If they aren't confirmed within 15 days, the domain stops working until they are. Tofu reminds you on the Domains page and by email.
Privacy protection is on by default, at no charge: public lookups of the domain show name.com's privacy service instead of the owner's details.
Prices
A domain's price is name.com's price to Tofu plus Tofu's fee of US$2 for each year, with the card fee included and rounded up to the next .99: a name that costs Tofu US$12.00 a year sells at US$14.99 for one year.
Before you pay, checkout shows the price of the registration for the years you choose, the price to renew it each year after, the price to renew it late (in the weeks after it expires) and the price to restore it after that. Prices are in US dollars and don't include any sales tax or VAT that may apply. Renewal prices can change: a renewal is charged at its price when the charge is made, and the email Tofu sends about 35 days before each renewal says the price expected then.
Paying
You pay by card. Card details go into Stripe's own payment fields and never reach Tofu, and your bank may ask you to confirm the payment. Tofu places a hold on your card for the whole price, registers the domain, and then takes the payment. If the registration doesn't go through, Tofu releases the hold and you aren't charged. The card is saved with Stripe for the domain's renewals.
When a purchase is final
A purchase is final once the domain is registered. If something went wrong — a typo in the name, or a duplicate order — email hello@trytofu.ai within 3 days of buying it: a new registration can often be cancelled in its first days, and if Tofu cancels it, you get the full price back, for every year you paid for, and the domain is deleted. If the registry rejects a registration after you paid, Tofu refunds you in full. A renewal can't be undone once it is made; if a renewal you paid for can't be completed, Tofu refunds it.
Renewals
A domain is registered for the number of years you chose at checkout, and then renews one year at a time. Automatic renewal is on unless you turn it off at checkout or on the Domains page. With it on, Tofu:
- emails you about 35 days before the domain expires, with the price;
- charges the card saved for the domain about 30 days before, or soon after you turn automatic renewal on if that is later, at the renewal price then;
- renews the domain with name.com.
Tofu charges a saved card automatically only until 11 days before the expiry, and only for a renewal of up to US$60. If the card is declined, Tofu tries again every few days and emails you each time until then; after that, renew it yourself with Renew now on the Domains page. A renewal that costs more than US$60, you pay yourself on the Domains page and your bank confirms it, and above US$120 Tofu contacts you. Turning automatic renewal off stops future charges; a renewal you already paid for is still completed.
If a domain expires, the website and any email on it stop working. For about 25 days after the expiry you can still renew it on the Domains page at the renewal price. After that it can often still be recovered at the restore price — contact us. After about 75 days it can be released for anyone to register. name.com also sends the reminders ICANN requires, to the domain owner's email; Tofu's own emails go to the email you sign in to Tofu with.
Automatic renewal authorization
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By turning on automatic renewal for a domain, you authorize Tofu to charge the card saved for it, one year at a time, the domain's renewal price when the charge is made — priced as the domain terms set out under Prices, and at most US$60 — from about 30 days before each expiry, or soon after you turn automatic renewal on if that is later, and to renew the domain for one year with name.com each time, until you turn automatic renewal off on the Domains page. Turning it off stops future charges; a renewal already paid for is still completed. If a charge is declined, Tofu emails you and tries again as the domain terms describe under Renewals.
Turning automatic renewal on for a domain you have already bought records this revision.
If a payment is reversed
If you ask your bank to reverse a payment for a domain (a chargeback), or your card network reports the payment as fraud, the domain is put on hold:
- it won't renew;
- it can't move to another registrar, and its owner details and DNS records can't be changed;
- your account, your sign-in email and that card can't buy another domain;
- while the case is open, the domain keeps pointing at your app.
If the bank decides against Tofu, or Tofu accepts the reversal, Tofu stops pointing the domain at your app; the app keeps its Tofu address. You can lift the hold by paying the amount again with Repay on the Domains page, and the domain goes back to normal. If a reversal or a fraud report comes in the first days after the registration, Tofu may refund the payment and cancel the registration instead. Tofu emails you when a hold starts. If you think a charge is wrong, contact us first: we can usually fix it faster than a bank can.
Moving a domain away
The domain is yours to take elsewhere. On the Domains page, Move to another registrar unlocks it and shows its transfer code once, after you have signed in again; you give the code to the registrar you're moving to. It can't move:
- in its first 60 days after registration (an ICANN rule), or for 60 days after its owner name or organization changes;
- while a payment for it is reversed or unpaid, or after any of the payment for its registration was refunded;
- while a renewal is paid and still being completed, or once it has expired.
Tofu emails you each time you unlock the domain, and each time you lock it again.
What Tofu manages for you
The domain's DNS runs on name.com's servers. Tofu adds only the records your app needs: pointing the domain at your app, the record that proves the domain is yours, and sending www to it. Your own records — for email, or a service's verification — stay as you set them. You can see, add and delete records and download the whole zone on the Domains page. Before Tofu changes a record you added, it saves a copy of the domain's records; the newest 30 copies are kept, and the Domains page puts one back.
When you cancel, delete an app or leave
- Cancelling the Pro plan doesn't touch the domain: it keeps renewing as you set it.
- Deleting an app removes Tofu's records for that app. The domain stays in your account, and you can connect it to another app.
- Before we close an account that still holds domains, we help you move each of them away.
- If Tofu stops selling domains, the domains you bought keep renewing as you set them until you move them, and we tell every owner how to move theirs.
Disputes over a name, and abuse
Disputes over who has the right to a domain name follow ICANN's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, through name.com's Registration Agreement. A domain bought through Tofu must not be used for phishing, malware, spam or anything illegal; Tofu or name.com may suspend a domain used that way. Report abuse to hello@trytofu.ai.
About these terms
These domain terms are part of Tofu's Terms of Service, whose sections on liability, governing law and disputes apply to them. A change that affects a domain you hold is announced by email before it takes effect. A purchase records the revision shown at the top of this page, and turning automatic renewal on records the revision shown with its authorization. Each revision stays published as it was, at its own address: this one at trytofu.ai/terms/domains/2026-10-06.1.