🗝️ $1,000 of Claude credits for a $10 domain email

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the signup form checks your email domain, then three steps and what you get
the signup form checks your email domain, then three steps and what you get2100×1128 530 KB

:envelope: the signup form checks your email address — a domain mailbox is the one it accepts

$10.46 once → a mailbox on your own domain → $1,000 in credits, plus a year of Claude Team

:credit_card: Three steps

  1. Buy the domain — Cloudflare Registrar: a .com with WHOIS privacy on by default. Name it like a company: yourcompany.com. A .com or .net reads as a business address.
  2. Set up the mailbox — Zoho Mail, the free plan: one domain, up to 5 users, 5 GB each, on the web and in the Zoho apps. Create [email protected].
  3. Apply for the credits — Claude for Startups, using that email address.

:receipt: The DNS records — add them in this order

1  ownership   TXT or CNAME from Zoho        verify the domain first
2  MX          mx.zoho.com    10
   MX          mx2.zoho.com   20
   MX          mx3.zoho.com   50
3  SPF         v=spf1 include:zohomail.com -all
4  DKIM        selector zoho, per-domain public key
5  DMARC       v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected]

Send a test email to yourself before you apply. A domain that sends and receives mail reads as a company.

:bank: What you get

  • $1,000 in API credits, one time, granted on approval.
  • A free year of Claude Team — up to 5 premium seats, for companies new to Team.
  • Both are claimed in the Claude Console, on the Startups page.
  • No email arrives — the Console shows the status as verified by itself.

:stopwatch: How long it takes

  • The review runs up to a week. Anthropic’s own wording: “We aim to review every application within one week.”
  • A .com is $10.46 at cost today; the registry price goes up on 1 Nov.

:clipboard: What the application asks for

  • The domain email address, your website, and a short description of what you build.
  • Your investor, when you have one — bootstrapped, pre-seed and venture-backed all qualify.
  • No payment method. Anthropic states you do not need to add one.

one domain · one mailbox · one email address the form accepts

The domain costs $10.46. The mailbox on it costs nothing.

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Don’t they have this requirement?
`Founded within the last five years, or funded within the last two years.`

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I just applied. We will see if it works :slight_smile: