Adding domains is deliberately forgiving: paste a list in any format, or upload a file. Everything goes to either your Watchlist (names you want to acquire) or your Portfolio (names you own).
Watchlist or Portfolio?
This is the one choice that matters, because it decides what is monitored.
- Watchlist — a name you do not own. Tracked for availability and lifecycle stage, so you know when it drops.
- Portfolio — a name you own. Adds expiry reminders, SSL monitoring and DNS monitoring on paid plans.
You can move a domain between the two later without losing its history.
Adding domains by hand
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Open the Add Domain(s) button from the dashboard, Watchlist or Portfolio.
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Enter the names. Enter as many as you like, separated by new lines, commas or spaces.
http://,https://,www.and trailing slashes are stripped for you.example.com, google.com anotherdomain.net -
Assign a folder (optional) so they arrive organised. See Grouping domains with folders.
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Choose the monitoring type, Watchlist or Portfolio.
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Set the initial preferences. A Watchlist domain asks which lifecycle stages should alert you, defaulting to Available. A Portfolio domain asks about SSL, DNS and your expiry reminder windows.
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Add. The names are validated and added.
Importing a CSV
For anything larger than a handful of names, import the file instead. CSV import and export are paid-plan features.
Preparing the file. A header row with a column called domain, name or url is ideal. Without a recognisable header, the first column is used. You do not need to clean the list first: prefixes, www., trailing slashes, whitespace and duplicates within the file are all handled.
Running the import.
- Go to the Watchlist or Portfolio page, depending on where the domains belong.
- Click the Import CSV icon in the action bar, beside Add Domain(s).
- Choose a
.csvor.txtfile, up to 2 MB. - Confirm. You get a summary of what was added and what was skipped.
A useful first import is your whole portfolio into one folder, left to check once, so you sort from the status the system actually found rather than the one you assumed.
When something is skipped
Domains you already monitor, in either list, are skipped rather than duplicated. Invalid names are reported individually and stay in the text area, so you can correct them and retry without retyping the list.
Plan limits
Your plan sets how many domains you can hold. If a batch would take you over, Domainyze adds as many as fit, oldest first, and tells you exactly what stopped the rest — it does not silently drop the remainder or refuse the whole batch. See Understanding plans and limits.