Your First Domain is Free

Your domain is to your website what your address is to your house. Customers will use your domain (like northwestregisteredagent.com) to get to your website.

Having a domain is necessary to set up a website and a professional email address. While you can run a business without them, a polished site and branded email make you look established and credible and help build your brand.

You can’t technically own your domain, but you can lease it. When you sign up for certain Northwest services, like web hosting or email, your website domain service is free for the first year and renewable after that for an affordable annual price. Our low-cost renewal rates will allow you to keep your domain name for as long as you want.

Ultimately, it’s up to you. Brainstorm and check domains early, but verify your name in your state’s database first. If you need an exact match, wait for state approval. If you’re flexible, register now to secure your domain and start building an online presence, so you can hit the ground running.

With your first purchase, you can register up to 20 domains for your business. That leaves plenty of room to claim the perfect primary domain name, cover the ones your business might grow into, and stop others from using lookalike domains. Afterwards, you can add as many domains as you’d like from within your own private account.

Not necessarily. Northwest offers free forwarding for your domains, so each one can lead to the same website if you’d like.

However, you can also use different domains for different purposes, like a unique landing page for a marketing campaign, a dedicated hiring page, or a separate site for a specific product or service.

Choose a primary domain that closely matches your business name. Then, secure key variations and common typos or extra TLDs (like .org or .company) to boost search visibility and prevent impersonators.

When a domain is registered, the registrant’s information is typically displayed on a public domain directory called WHOIS, including their name and phone number. When you register a domain through Northwest, we’ll keep your information private, keeping spammers and scammers out of your inbox.

Annual costs depend on the extension (each TLD has its own registry, e.g., Verisign manages .com domains). We keep things transparent, with no teaser rates or rug pulls. You’ll see the annual price up front and get renewal reminders well in advance. If a registry changes its wholesale rate, we’ll let you know before renewal.