Editorial standards

Our guides are researched, written, and fact-checked as a team effort, so they carry the WebsiteDomain Editorial byline rather than a single person's name. It's a deliberate choice, and an honest one: we'd rather show you a real, verifiable process than invent a personality to sign off on it.

We never publish under a made-up expert, a stock-photo “author,” or an AI-generated persona. When a specific guide has been reviewed by a named specialist, we'll say so on that page. Everything else is the team's shared work, held to the standards below.

We start from primary sources and work outward — the organisations and companies that actually set the facts, not second-hand summaries of them:

• Pricing and registration: registrars' own current pricing pages and registry policy, not aggregator estimates.
• Rules and disputes: ICANN policy and registry documentation for things like transfers, locks, and the UDRP.
• What names sell for: our value estimator compares your name against real, dated public sales — not a made-up formula. Every comparable it shows links back to its published sale record.

Where a claim is load-bearing, we cite it on the page so you can check it yourself. If we can't verify something, we say it's uncertain rather than dress it up.

Domains move — new extensions launch, prices change, registrars change hands. So every guide shows an Updated date in its byline. That date is a promise: it's when we last re-checked the facts on that page, not when we first wrote it.

When we revisit a guide and confirm or correct its facts, we move the date. If a guide hasn't been touched in a while, its date tells you that too.

If you spot something wrong, out of date, or unclear, please tell us — it genuinely helps, and we'd rather hear it from you than leave it live. We'll check it, fix it, and move the guide's Updated date when we do.

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It does not change what we recommend. We suggest what's actually a good choice for the reader, we tell you when a link is an affiliate one, and a bigger commission never buys a better placement.

• Invent authors, credentials, reviews, or testimonials.
• Quote sale prices or statistics we can't point to a real source for.
• Recommend a registrar just because it pays a higher commission.
• Publish placeholder or half-finished pages and dress them up as done.