How to buy a domain with an AI agent

Zeabur is a hosting platform that is also a registrar, which is why its skill can do this at all. The flow is three commands and one of them you only run once.

Availability and price come from npx zeabur@latest domain search example.com -i=false, one domain per call. Before you can buy, a registrant profile has to exist — the WHOIS contact record ICANN requires — created with npx zeabur@latest domain registrant create and the usual name, email, phone and postal address. The purchase then runs against that profile, and the same skill set covers renewal, auto-renew, the ICANN verification email and the domain-suspended state that follows if nobody clicks it.

The skill's own description names GoDaddy, Namecheap, Google Domains, Cloudflare Registrar, Porkbun, Hover and Gandi as the things it is an alternative to, which is unusually honest framing for a trigger line: it is telling the agent to reach for this when the user mentions any registrar at all.

Hostinger's domains skill covers more of what a registrar actually does. Availability checks and registration are there, but so are the parts people hit later: WHOIS contact profiles, nameserver delegation, domain forwarding from an old name to a new one, transfer locks, privacy protection, and the domain-access verification state.

It runs against the Hostinger REST API with a bearer token. Export it as HOSTINGER_API_TOKEN and reference the variable in commands; the skill says explicitly never to paste the token into the chat, and if one does leak, rotate it in hPanel rather than hoping.

The trade-off against Zeabur is scope versus depth. Zeabur gets you from search to purchase in fewer moves and hosts the site in the same CLI. Hostinger gives you the full lifecycle of a domain portfolio, including the transfer and privacy controls Zeabur's skill does not reach.

Search GitHub for SKILL.md files mentioning domains and you get over a thousand hits. Almost none can buy anything. The common shapes are WHOIS and passive-recon skills built for security research, availability checkers wrapping a public API, and DNS editors for a zone you already control.

A second failure mode is the personal skill published as if it were general. One well-starred example routes every operation through the author's own machine — its instructions read "use ~/Projects/manager as truth" and call scripts that only exist in that checkout. It is a good skill for exactly one person. Installed by anyone else it fails on the first command, which is why it is not catalogued here.

The honest summary of the category: domain registration through an agent works today only where the platform is its own registrar. That is two companies in this catalogue. It will be more, and the entries here will change when it is.

Registering is the least reversible thing on the launch path. There is no undo, the charge is real, and the registrant details go into public WHOIS unless privacy is on.

Read the availability check's own output for the price rather than the agent's summary of it, confirm the TLD character for character, and check the registrant profile before the first purchase uses it. Eliza Cloud's equivalent skill states the rule plainly — confirm the price, get an explicit yes, never auto-buy — and it is worth applying to whichever skill you run.