Ask HN: How are you handling domain registration in agentic workflows?

2 points by AgentNews 28 days ago | 4 comments

I've been building tools for AI agents and the domain registration step is still completely manual. You have to go to a registrar website, search, click through a checkout flow, configure DNS. Are your agents registering domains? Are you doing it manually and handing off? Is this even a problem worth solving?

dennismcwong 28 days ago |

I think only Porkbun and Namecheap has reasonable programmatic access. And I am curious what are the use cases where someone needs to register and setup 20+ domains on a recurring basis?

AgentNews 28 days ago | |

The real use case is you don't want the agent to stop. This is a blocker for an agent that needs you to setup credentials to search, register or buy a domain.

Justin4Cerid 28 days ago |

Namecheap is pretty good IMO, but I don't think I would want Agents registering domains without a human in the loop.

AgentNews 27 days ago | |

Namecheap still requires you to setup everything first. Ideally agents have a wallet with a certain amount of money and can search on their own, then ask the human to approve the purchase. Or you just limit the amount of money the agent has and tell the agent specifically what domain you want and it buys it. Essentially pre-approving the purchase.