Buy new domains through Winnr (full walkthrough)

One wizard, two things at once

The most important thing to understand about Purchase Domains: it isn't a domain-only checkout. In one flow it registers the domains and creates mailboxes on them. That's why the steps are Search Domains, Configure Users, Review. The Configure Users step is where you decide how many mailboxes to create (default 5 per domain), and it's what can add a monthly charge on top of the one-time domain cost.

What it costs

• Domains: charged per domain at purchase, shown in the search results before you select anything. No monthly domain fee (see renewal below).
• Mailboxes: free up to your plan's included email-user limit (50 on Startup, 200 on Enterprise). Any beyond that are email-user credits at $1/mailbox/month, charged immediately and shown on the Review step as "+$X/mo".

What Winnr does behind the scenes

After you pay, for each domain in the order:

1. Registration. Winnr registers the domain on your behalf (spaced out across a multi-domain order).
2. DNS setup. The full record set is created: inbound A, MX (10 inbound.yourdomain.com), SPF (ending in -all), DKIM at dkim._domainkey, and a p=reject DMARC policy.
3. Mailbox creation. The email users you configured are created on the domain.
4. Redirect. If you entered a redirect URL, it's set up on the domain.
5. Forwarding. If you entered a forwarding address, it's switched on once the mailboxes exist, so a copy of every email they receive also goes to that address.
6. Health tracking. The domain is added to the daily DNS health check.

You don't touch DNS or handle registrar credentials. The domain shows up in your Domains list and is yours to use.

Paying for domains

You pay for a domain when you buy it; there's no monthly domain fee. Domains are registered for a year at a time. While your account is active, Winnr renews the domains it registered for you before they expire and emails you 30 and 14 days ahead with the date. To stop a domain from renewing, delete it before the date in that email.

What's next

• Add or adjust mailboxes later: Create a mailbox
• Set a redirect or forwarding address: Domain redirects and forwarding
• Bring a domain you already own: Connect an existing domain
• Pick the right extension: TLD guide for cold email

Step-by-step

1. 1. Open Purchase Domains and pick Classic

   On the Domains page, click "Purchase Domain(s)". Winnr offers two routes. Classic domains buys multiple .com/.co/.org/.net domains with 5 mailboxes each. The Subdomain Strategy buys fewer domains and puts up to 5 subdomains under each. For a typical cold-email setup, choose Classic domains.

   

2. 2. Generate or search for names

   The default mode is "Random brandable names (Recommended)". Pick how many to generate (5, 10, 25, or 50) and click Generate. Winnr returns available invented names that don't share a spam-filter fingerprint with your real brand. "Brand variations (advanced)" lets you type a keyword, but it warns that look-alike names cluster in spam filters. Only .com, .co, .org, and .net are available here, and a Max price filter (default $20) hides anything more expensive.

   

3. 3. Select the domains you want

   Tick the checkboxes for the domains to buy (or Select All). The bar at the bottom tracks how many are selected and the running total. Each result shows its one-time price. Then click "Setup Email Users".

4. 4. Configure the mailboxes (this wizard also creates them)

   Buying domains here also creates mailboxes on them in the same order. "Use different email users for each domain" is on by default (recommended, because it avoids an identical-mailbox pattern across domains), with 5 users per domain by default. Winnr auto-generates realistic names; change the count (1-10 per domain), regenerate, or edit any name. You can also add optional tags, a redirect URL, and a forwarding address for the whole order. The forwarding address receives a copy of every email that reaches the new mailboxes. Then click Continue.

   

5. 5. Review and pay

   The Review step shows the one-time domain total and the mailboxes to be created. If those mailboxes push you over your plan's email-user limit, a notice explains that the extra ones are added as email-user credits at $1/user/month, charged immediately to your payment method on file. The final button reads "Pay & Setup" with the domain total (and any monthly add-on). For multi-domain orders the Review step also shows roughly how long the whole order will take to register.

   

6. 6. Watch the domains go live

   After you pay, each domain registers, gets its DNS set up, and has its mailboxes created in the background. A single domain is usually ready within a few minutes. In a multi-domain order the first domain starts right away and the rest follow 7-13 minutes apart, so a big order can take a few hours to finish. On the Domains page a waiting domain shows as Pending, then Setting up, then Active.