Questions, answered plainly

Can I register a domain anonymously?

Yes. Outis does not ask who you are at any point. An account is an email address you choose and a password — no legal name, no phone number, no payment card, and no identity documents.

The name itself is registered in our name rather than yours, so the public record has nothing of yours to disclose. You keep operational control of the name from the desk or the API.

Do you require KYC or identity verification?

No. There is no identity check because there is no payment processor demanding one — funding is crypto only, so no bank ever sits between you and the account.

Whose name appears in the WHOIS record?

Ours. This is not a WHOIS privacy add-on layered over your details — your details were never collected, so there is nothing underneath the mask.

What cryptocurrencies can I pay with?

USDC on Solana, Base and Ethereum; native ETH on Base and Ethereum; Bitcoin; and Zcash. Every account gets its own dedicated address on each chain — they are not shared deposit addresses with a memo field.

USDC credits one-for-one: one USDC is one dollar of credit, with no spread and no conversion step. ETH, BTC and ZEC post at the fill price when the transfer confirms.

What do you log?

Activity is not recorded. There is no history of what you searched, what you resolved, or what you pointed a record at — which means there is no such history to leak, sell, or be compelled to produce.

What necessarily exists is the account itself: the email it was opened with, the ledger of deposits and purchases that makes up its balance, and the names and servers on it. The legal page lists all of it.

Do I need an invite to sign up?

No. Signup is open — pick an email address, pick a password, and the account exists. There is no waitlist, no application, and no approval step.

An account with no credit on it can do nothing but sit there, so funding it is the only gate that matters.

What happens if my balance is too low?

Nothing is bought and nothing is charged. Every paid action is quoted before it runs, and if the credit does not cover the quote the call is refused with a 402 — there is no overdraft and no card to fall back on.

Can a program or agent use my account?

That is a first-class case rather than an afterthought. Issue an API key from the desk and a program can search, register, manage DNS and order servers against the same dollar credit you use.

Every debit an agent makes lands in your ledger itemised, so an automated purchase is as legible after the fact as one you made yourself.

Is DNS included?

Yes, and it is not billed. Records live beside the name they serve, and the editor handles A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT, MX, NS, SRV and CAA records with per-record TTLs.

Do I get root on the servers?

Yes. Bring your own SSH public key and it is installed at build time, or let Outis mint an ed25519 pair and hand you the private half once. Either way access is yours from first boot.

Why does this cost more than a $12 registrar?

Because a $12 name and this one are not the same product. The cheap one is registered to you: your legal name and address in the record, a card on file, an identity attached to the asset. A name held in our name, funded without a processor, carries a higher wholesale cost before we have touched it.

The rest of the difference is what is included rather than sold back to you — DNS at no charge, no privacy add-on, no renewal step-up, and an API a program can spend from. The price you see in year one is the price in year three.

If none of that matters to you, a commodity registrar is cheaper and you should use one. We would rather say that than sell you a premium you have no use for.

Does the price go up when it renews?

No. There is no introductory rate here, so there is nothing to step up from — a renewal is quoted at the same shelf price as the first year, drawn from the same credit balance.

If nothing is logged, can I use it for anything?

No. Not logging protects who you are; it does not make anything legal. Phishing, malware, fraud, abuse material, spam, attacks on other people's systems and the rest of the list on the acceptable use page are not allowed, and an account used for them is closed.

Privacy is the product. Cover for crime is not, and it is not what the price pays for.

What happens when a name or server is reported for abuse?

We look at the thing reported, which is public by nature: a phishing page, a malware download or a spam source is visible to anyone. If it breaks the rules, the name or server is suspended or removed and the account can be closed.

We do not need to watch accounts to do this, and we do not. Abuse on the open internet announces itself.