type: service
status: active
timestamp: 2026-06-20
tags: [domain, spaceship, registrar, primary]

Spaceship (registrar)

Existing domain registrar; NS delegated to Cloudflare DNS, email via Cloudflare Routing

Spaceship (registrar)

Role

Holds the registration for oriz.in, oriz.me, and any other family domains. Spaceship is the registrar of record; DNS hosting is delegated to Cloudflare via NS records, and email forwarding goes through Cloudflare Email Routing → Gmail.

This supersedes the family’s earlier plan to use Cloudflare Registrar — see the spaceship-registrar-cloudflare-dns.md decision file for context.

Free tier / pricing

Free WHOIS privacy (Spaceship Privacy).
Domain registration / renewal is paid (e.g. .in ~₹800/yr, .me ~$25/yr, .com ~$10/yr — varies by TLD; promo pricing on first year).
No registrar markup beyond standard pricing; the family treats domain renewal as a separate budget line, NOT as a free-tier service.
Free DNS hosting included BUT we don’t use it — DNS is delegated to Cloudflare.

Card / subscription required?

Yes, only at registration / renewal — domains are inherently paid. Holding existing domains at Spaceship needs a payment method on file at the renewal moment. The family treats this as the same narrow exception as Cloudflare Registrar: domain renewal is the only place the no-card-on-file rule bends, because the alternative is losing the domain.

Alternatives

Cloudflare Registrar — at-cost, same dashboard
Namecheap
Porkbun

Swap cost

Low — initiate domain transfer (5-7 day process). DNS records stay on Cloudflare DNS regardless of registrar, so a transfer is purely a registrar swap with no resolution downtime.

Why this is our pick

The user already runs Spaceship as their existing registrar across their personal domains; consolidating the new oriz* domains there keeps renewal management in one place rather than splitting across Spaceship + Cloudflare Registrar.

Implementation notes

At Spaceship: set NS records to Cloudflare’s nameservers (the pair Cloudflare assigns when adding the zone — typically xxx.ns.cloudflare.com).
Verify NS propagation (dig NS oriz.in).
All other DNS (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT) is managed at Cloudflare DNS.
Email forwarding for *@oriz.in, *@oriz.me, etc. goes through Cloudflare Email Routing — NOT Spaceship’s email forwarder, so MX records point at Cloudflare.
Renewal notices route to the user’s primary Gmail; auto-renew enabled with a reminder window long enough to swap funding source if needed.

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