Register a .observer domain
$30 a year, paid in crypto, with no identity attached and DNS included.
About .observer
Observer carries the specific connotation of an outside party who watches and reports rather than participates, the same framing long used by newspapers named The Observer in several countries. It suits commentary sites, watchdog projects, and analysts who want to signal detachment from the story.
Suits: Commentary sites, watchdog projects, and analysts covering a beat from outside.
It is one of 33 creative and publishing endings in the catalog.
What a .observer costs
$30 a year. One flat shelf price in dollars, drawn from your credit balance — there is no first-year discount that triples at renewal, and no fee for the privacy, because the name is registered in our name by default rather than as a paid extra.
The catalog lands on 5 price bands, and .observer sits in the $30 one alongside 18 other endings. Nothing in the catalog is cheaper; 369 endings cost more.
| Term | Price | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $30 | $30 |
| 2 years | $60 | $30 |
| 3 years | $90 | $30 |
| 5 years | $150 | $30 |
| 10 years | $300 | $30 |
DNS on the name is included and never billed. This registry supports DNSSEC.
Registering a .observer anonymously
Offbook never asks who you are. Opening an account takes an email address you invent, a password and an invite code — no legal name, no address, no phone number, no card and no identity documents. Funding is crypto, so no bank or processor is in a position to demand them.
The .observer is then held in our name rather than yours, so the public record has nothing of yours to show. You keep operational control of the name — DNS, renewals and where it points — from the desk or through the API. Read more on anonymous domain registration.
If .observer is taken
Nothing cheaper in this category
.observer is the least expensive creative ending we sell. The full catalog is sorted by price if you want to go lower still.
Similar endings at a similar price
Nothing on file. Nothing to leak.
An email you invent, an invite code, and crypto. That is the entire relationship.