Internet.bs 2FA: how to set up an authenticator app
By the Novaz team · Updated October 29, 2026
Novaz steps checked against version 1.0.5
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Internet.bs is a domain registrar, so the account you sign in to controls your domains, their nameservers and their renewals. Someone who gets into it can point your website and email somewhere else. Internet.bs already protects every account with a second step: if you don't choose a method yourself, it switches on email-based two-factor authentication (2FA) and sends a one-time code to your registered email address each time you log in (Internet.bs).
You can replace that email step with one of two stronger options: an authenticator app, which Internet.bs calls Standard Two-Factor Authentication, or a hardware security key. This guide covers the app. We use Authenticator App - Novaz on iPhone, but any app that makes time-based (TOTP) codes works the same way.
How we checked this guide: the Internet.bs steps come from Internet.bs's own help center, linked below, which we read on October 21, 2026. The Internet.bs site blocks automated access, so we read the articles in archived copies on web.archive.org (saved October 5, 2025) and checked them against the help center's public article feed, which returned the same text that day. We haven't tested them on an Internet.bs account, so a label may differ slightly. The Novaz steps are checked against the app, version 1.0.5.
Why switch from email codes
With the default setup, your second step lives in your inbox. If that mailbox is ever taken over, the attacker has both the password-reset route and the login code in one place. An authenticator app keeps the code on your phone instead. The help article frames 2FA as a guard that still holds when your password has leaked (Internet.bs).
The article presents the app and the hardware key as choices you make instead of the automatic email method. It doesn't say outright whether the email code stops, or what the sign-in screen asks for afterwards.
Turn on 2FA with an authenticator app
These steps follow Internet.bs's help article (Internet.bs):
- Log in to your Internet.bs account.
- From the top menu, open My Account > Account Security.
- In the Login & Security section, pick Standard Two-Factor Authentication. (The other choice, Hardware Key 2FA, is for a physical security key.)
- Internet.bs shows a QR code. In Novaz, tap +, then Scan QR code, and point the camera at it. If the page is open on the same iPhone, take a screenshot, tap +, then Choose a photo. See scanning a QR code on the same iPhone.
- If you can't scan, use the code shown at the bottom of the page, which is your setup key. The article gives it no special name. In Novaz, tap +, then Enter key manually, fill in Service (for example, Internet.bs) and paste the key as the Setup key. See What is a 2FA setup key?
- Type the current code from Novaz into the verification field on the Internet.bs page.
- Click Enable Two-Factor Authentication to finish.
The article doesn't say how many digits the codes have or how often they change, so scan the QR code if you can: it carries those settings to the app. A key typed by hand in Novaz always gets 6 digits every 30 seconds.
No backup codes mentioned
Internet.bs's articles don't mention backup or recovery codes, and they don't describe a way to keep a second method alongside the app. That matters with Novaz: without iCloud backup or a backup file, its keys exist only on your iPhone. If that phone is lost and there's no Novaz backup to restore, the only documented way back in is Internet.bs support (below).
The article also doesn't say whether you can register a hardware key alongside the app. Keep the email address on your account working, so you have a way to reach support from it. See 2FA backup codes.
If Internet.bs rejects your code
The help center has no advice on rejected codes. The usual cause is a phone clock that has drifted. On iPhone, go to Settings > General > Date & Time and turn on Set Automatically. Novaz warns you when the clock is 15 seconds or more off. More causes are in Authenticator code not working?
Changing phones
Internet.bs doesn't document moving the authenticator to a new device. With a Novaz iCloud backup or backup file, you can restore your accounts on the new iPhone and skip this. Without one, you'll need to set Internet.bs up again on the new phone. Do it while the old phone still works: sign in and check Account Security for a way to set it up again, and if there isn't one, ask support before you wipe the old phone. See How to transfer your authenticator app to a new iPhone.
If you lose your authenticator
Internet.bs support can remove two-factor authentication from your account, but it first runs what it calls "extensive account holder authentication" (Internet.bs). To start, email contact-en@internet.bs or use the Live Chat, which the article says is open 24 hours a day, every day.
The article doesn't list the proof support asks for or how long the check takes, so contact support from the email address on your account and ask what they need. Once you're back in, set up the authenticator again on your new phone. More in Lost the phone with your authenticator app?
Turning 2FA off
The help center doesn't explain how to turn the authenticator off yourself. Its only documented route is the support request above. It also doesn't say what happens next: whether the account goes back to the automatic email code or has no second step until you choose one.
