Registered in our name: the registry never sees you

What is proxy domain registration?

In a proxy registration, the service registers the domain in its own name and lets you use it. The service is the official holder, the registrant of record; you are the beneficial owner. It is the model Njalla is known for.

Sealname offers two ways to register a domain:

• Standard (included): the domain is registered in your name, and our privacy service replaces your contact details in public WHOIS/RDAP. The registry receives our privacy contact.
• Registered in our name (+$90/year): the domain is registered in the name of DomaineGoat LLC. The registry, WHOIS/RDAP and the registration data show our company. Nothing about you is sent to the registry.

In both cases we keep one email, nothing else: it is how we reach you about your domain.

Who sees what when a domain is registered in our name?

Nobody outside Sealname sees you, and inside Sealname we see one email.

What do you keep when the domain is in our name?

Everything that makes the domain yours. The terms of service include a written beneficial-owner commitment:

• Full control: DNS records, nameservers, renewals and redirects, from your account.
• Transfer out at any time, with a free EPP (transfer) code.
• Back in your own name on request, free. The domain then becomes a standard registration, with our privacy service.
• One email, nothing else: we never ask for your name, address, phone or ID to hold the domain for you.

This answers the usual worry about proxy services — "you do not own your domain" — with a written promise and a free exit.

What does Registered in our name not do?

It gives you anonymity towards the registry, not immunity. The rules are the same as for every Sealname domain:

• No takedown on complaint alone: copyright, defamation, political or competitor complaints need a decision from a Panamanian court (foreign judgments must first be recognised in Panama).
• Your data only goes out on a Panamanian court order, except the urgent requests ICANN rules require registrars to answer (an imminent threat to life, serious bodily injury, critical infrastructure, or child exploitation).
• Strict exceptions, written openly: phishing, malware, botnets, child sexual abuse material and fraud that takes money from victims lead to suspension, whoever is the official holder.
• Trademark disputes follow the UDRP. A complaint names the official holder, DomaineGoat LLC. We warn you, you can defend the domain, and the panel's decision is applied.

One honest point about the contract: ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement (§3.7.7.3) makes a registrant that licenses a domain to someone else liable for harm caused by its wrongful use, unless it discloses the user within 7 days on reasonable evidence of actionable harm. Our disclosure policy does not change for this option, so we keep that responsibility ourselves — and the strict exceptions above apply to every domain.

How much does it cost, and for which extensions?

+$90 per year and per domain, on top of the extension price, paid in crypto from your balance like any renewal. A .com registered in our name costs $12.99/year plus $90 a year.

The option exists on 130 extensions: their registries accept a foreign company as holder, with no residence rule. 12 of them are sold registered in our name only — .de, .uk, .nl, .cc, .to, .ch, .pl, .be, .at, .cz, .nz, .fi — because their registry needs a name and postal address: it receives ours, never yours, and the price shown for them already includes the option. It does not exist where DomaineGoat LLC itself is not eligible, such as .eu, .fr, .it, .ca or .us. Every price is on the price list.