Domains & Registrars
Every domain we own, which registrar holds it, where DNS is managed, and when it renews.
The trap that bit us: registrars are not consistent across our domains. Most are at GoDaddy,
but hellobellocdn.com is at Squarespace — so when it lapsed, nobody thought to look there.
Always check the registrar column below before assuming where a domain lives.
Registry
| Domain | Registrar | DNS managed at | Renews | Auto-renew | Billing owner | Powers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hellobello.com | GoDaddy ⚠️ VERIFY | Cloudflare (104.26.x / 172.67.x) | TODO | TODO | TODO | Main customer site + email |
hellobellocdn.com | Squarespace Domains II LLC | Cloudflare (henry/linda.ns.cloudflare.com) | 2026-06-26 (registrar) / 2027-06-26 (registry) | ⚠️ CONFIRM ON | TODO | Image CDN (/cdn-cgi/image resizing) and media origin (media.hellobellocdn.com) |
| …other domains | TODO | TODO | TODO | TODO | TODO | TODO |
TODO: enumerate the rest of our domains. Pull the full list from the GoDaddy account and the Squarespace account so this table is exhaustive — the whole point is to never again discover a domain only after it breaks.
hellobellocdn.com — detail
This domain powers all CDN-served images on the site, via two hosts that are both subdomains of it:
hellobellocdn.com/cdn-cgi/image/...— Cloudflare’s image-resizing worker (thewidth/quality/formattransforms in the site’ssrcset).media.hellobellocdn.com— the origin store the resizer pulls the raw image from.
Because both are on the same registered domain, if hellobellocdn.com falls out of DNS, every image
breaks — resized and raw. See the runbook: DNS — domain not resolving.
Known facts (from the 2026-06-29 outage):
- Registrar: Squarespace Domains II LLC (not GoDaddy like our other domains).
- Nameservers:
henry.ns.cloudflare.com,linda.ns.cloudflare.com(DNS lives in Cloudflare). - The registrar’s registration lapsed 2026-06-26; Squarespace applied a
clientHoldstatus, which pulls the domain out of DNS →NXDOMAIN→ all images 404. Renewing cleared the hold and DNS recovered within minutes.
Action item: confirm auto-renew is ON for hellobellocdn.com in Squarespace, and that the
card on file is current. This domain has no business being on a manual renewal.
What to capture for every domain
- Registrar + the login location for that registrar account (which password-manager entry).
- Where DNS is actually served (Cloudflare, in most of our cases — separate from the registrar).
- Renewal date and whether auto-renew is on.
- Billing owner and which card is on file.
- What the domain powers (so the blast radius of a lapse is obvious).