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Domain Management#

Everyone in the galaxy needs an address. Zaphod Beeblebrox's address might be "everywhere," but yours is probably something like yourcompany.com — and that address needs maintenance.

Domain List#

Under Domains, everything at a glance:

  • Status — active, expired, pending transfer
  • Expiry date — the date you should put in your calendar. It comes before the end of the universe, usually.
  • Auto-renewal — when it's on, we remember even if you forget. More reliable than Deep Thought.

Where the expiry date comes from

For domains that are not registered with us and whose DNS we merely host, the expiry date is now read over RDAP; for .tr extensions, straight from the registry. The old-style WHOIS query did not work from our servers at all, and because the failure was swallowed silently, the date simply never appeared. Now either the date arrives, or the reason it did not is recorded. There is no third option.

Registrant Identity for a New .tr Registration#

Zaphod's address could be "everywhere", but even two heads would not have covered his identity paperwork. A .tr registration carries the registrant's identity, and the registry does not treat that as an optional field.

So the contact step of the domain wizard opens a .tr-specific identity section:

  • Individual: your Turkish national ID number (TCKN)
  • Company: your tax number, tax office and company title
  • In both cases the province - not free text, but picked from a list, and sent to the registry as a numeric province code

The fields arrive pre-filled from your billing profile; what we ask of you is confirmation, not retyping.

The gate sits in front of the payment. An order with incomplete identity is not opened and no charge is attempted. That is deliberate: the registrar call happens after collection, so incomplete identity would otherwise mean a charge-and-refund round every single time.

Transfers and renewals are outside this gate - the identity is already at the registry, so it is not asked for twice.

An address line cannot exceed 50 characters

The registry limits each address line to 50 characters and the postal code to 10, while your billing profile keeps the address in a single free-text field. The wizard suggests a split of your long address across two lines; no character is dropped, and you can edit it however you like. Turkish letters count as one character each, and punctuation is fine. We did not guess the limit, we measured it against the registry: 50 accepted, 51 rejected.

Province and country must agree

A Turkish address wants a province between 1 and 81; an address abroad wants the "outside Turkey" code. A mix of the two is rejected. An unrecognised province name is never quietly mapped to a code - the choice is left to you. A national ID number's check digit is verified; a tax number is only checked for its ten-digit shape, because a stricter algorithm rejects some old but perfectly valid numbers, and turning away a real customer is the worse mistake.

Your discount code works on domain orders too

A discount code entered in the domain wizard is now genuinely applied: the amount collected is the discounted amount you see on screen. The code applies at registration; see the Discount Codes page for details.

DNS Management#

DNS is the internet's phone book. When visitors type your domain, DNS determines where they end up. Configure it wrong, and your visitors end up in a digital wasteland — and there are no restaurants there.

To add a record:

  1. Select the domain from the list
  2. Click the DNS Management tab
  3. Click New Record to get started

Record Types#

Type What it does Example
A Points your domain to an IPv4 address 93.184.216.34
AAAA Points your domain to an IPv6 address 2001:db8::1
CNAME Points one domain to another domain www.example.com
MX Determines where emails go mail.example.com
TXT Verification and security records v=spf1 include:...
NS Defines which name servers your domain uses ns1.veriteknik.com

A note about NS records

Misconfiguring NS records is like writing your home address on another planet. The postman arrives, looks around, shrugs, turns back. Your emails do the same thing. Be careful.

To automate certificate renewal for servers on your private network, follow the Let's Encrypt DNS Token guide.

Use VeriTeknik DNS#

On the domain detail page, you'll see a Use VeriTeknik DNS button. Clicking it automatically points your domain's nameserver records to VeriTeknik's PowerDNS infrastructure.

When to use it:

  • When you want to move your domain to VeriTeknik's DNS infrastructure
  • When you want to manage your DNS records directly from our panel
  • When you want a one-click nameserver change instead of copying them manually

Nameserver change propagation

Nameserver changes can take 24–48 hours to propagate across the internet. During that time, some visitors may see the old servers, others the new ones. Don't panic — it's an unavoidable feature of the universe.

Contact Info and WHOIS Privacy#

Every domain's registrant information is stored in the WHOIS database. In the Contact Info tab on the domain detail page, you can update your registrant, administrative, and technical contact details.

WHOIS Privacy#

When WHOIS privacy is enabled, personal information like your name, email address, and phone number is hidden from public WHOIS lookups. VeriTeknik's privacy service information is shown instead.

WHOIS privacy recommended

We recommend keeping privacy enabled for personal domains. Getting bombarded with spam emails is about as pleasant as listening to Vogon poetry.

Domain Renewal#

  1. Go to the domain detail page
  2. Click Renew
  3. Select duration (1-10 years)
  4. Complete payment

Watch the expiry date

Renew at least 30 days before expiry. Expired domains enter a redemption period — it's like the Vogon demolition fleet showing up at your house: technically reversible, but nobody wants to go through it. Turn on auto-renewal, grab your towel, sleep well.

Auto-Renewal#

When the Auto-Renewal toggle is on, payment is automatically taken from your balance before expiry and the domain is renewed. Turn it off and the responsibility falls on you — and the universe is indifferent to your problems.

Domain Transfer#

To transfer a domain from another registrar to VeriTeknik:

  1. Get your transfer (EPP/auth) code from your current registrar
  2. Unlock the domain
  3. Go to Domains > Transfer and enter the domain name and auth code
  4. Confirm via the verification email

A .tr Transfer Has No Duration Choice#

A .tr transfer has no duration axis: the registry expresses an extension with a single flag, and it adds exactly one year. So you cannot pick 1-5 years on a .tr transfer, and the price is calculated for a single year. The wizard used to treat everything as "unit price times years" and sold years here too - and the amount taken from a customer who picked five years could never have been delivered.

Multi-year transfers remain valid on other extensions such as .com and .net.

The same transfer is not retried indefinitely

A transfer for the same domain that has been rejected three times within 24 hours does not enter the payment path a fourth time. The first two attempts are deliberately free - transient errors are already retried internally. The gate is not one-way either: if you have unlocked the domain for transfer at the registry, the block lifts and you can try again straight away. This rule went in after a real transfer that was charged and refunded several times over in a single day.

Transfer duration

Domain transfers typically take 5–7 business days. Your existing DNS records are preserved throughout — you don't need to change your nameservers before the transfer completes.