Create an account

A DomainGuard account is free, needs no card, and holds an unlimited number of domains on every plan. Registration is the same account whether you start on the web or in the app.

On the web

1. Go to nhmohio.com/register.
2. Enter your name, email and a password. Registration is rate limited per IP address per hour and per email address per day, so repeated attempts from one place are refused with "Too many registration attempts" until the window passes.
3. Check your inbox for the verification link. Resend verification is on the sign-in screen if it does not arrive.
4. Sign in at nhmohio.com/login.

Sign in with Apple also works on the website. The web flow asks Apple for a signed identity token and verifies it directly; DomainGuard never calls Apple's APIs on your behalf and stores no Apple key. See Sign in with Apple.

In the iOS app

The welcome screen leads with Sign in with Apple. Under it are Continue with email, Scan QR code to sign in (for an account already signed in on the web) and Check a domain without an account. Creating an account happens on the same email screen ("New here? Create a free account · no card needed").

Apple asks for your name and email only the first time. Revoking DomainGuard in your Apple ID settings has no effect on your DomainGuard session.

After the first sign-in the app runs a short guide to its five tabs, asks whether it may send notifications, and offers to add a first domain and scan it live.

What a new account has

• Unlimited domains. Adding one is never refused by plan, though a Free account may add at most 250 domains in any 30 days as a burst limit.
• Three domains watched automatically with a five-minute uptime probe; everything else on Free runs when you press scan.
• One mailbox watched in breach data.
• A one-time grant of 100 local SEO credits, spendable after a Local SEO upgrade or admin grant, or on any other credit-based action your plan includes.
• The Check tab and the public tools, which run the core checks on any domain from a signed-in session.

Free accounts and ads

The Free plan shows non-personalised Google AdMob banners in the iOS app. No App Tracking Transparency prompt is shown and no advertising identifier is used. Paying anything removes them, and an ad-free add-on exists for people who want only that. "Ad privacy options" is under Account in the app.

Passwords and sessions

Passwords are stored hashed with PBKDF2. Too many failed sign-ins lock the account for 30 minutes. Sessions refresh themselves for 90 days on the app, and the app never signs you out on a network error or a failed refresh; it shows a banner instead. See Sessions and staying signed in.