The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofDomainsClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedDomainsConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-09-04 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThis webpage provides documentation for the Google Cloud Domains C++ client library, with version 2.37.0-rc being the latest release candidate.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation covers versions ranging from 2.37.0-rc down to 2.12.0, each with its own set of reference links for namespaces.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eKey classes include \u003ccode\u003eDomainsClient\u003c/code\u003e, which manages domain names, and \u003ccode\u003eDomainsConnection\u003c/code\u003e, which serves as the connection object.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eRetry policies and backoff policies for \u003ccode\u003eDomainsConnection\u003c/code\u003e are also documented, such as \u003ccode\u003eDomainsLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003eDomainsLimitedTimeRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, and \u003ccode\u003eDomainsRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page also includes a description for \u003ccode\u003eMakeDomainsConnection\u003c/code\u003e, a factory function used to construct a \u003ccode\u003eDomainsConnection\u003c/code\u003e, and \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultDomainsConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, which creates a default domains connection.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::domains_v1 (2.16.0)\n\nVersion 2.16.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [DomainsClient](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsClient)\n\nThe Cloud Domains API enables management and configuration of domain names.\n\n### [DomainsConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnection)\n\nThe [`DomainsConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnection) object for [`DomainsClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsClient).\n\n### [DomainsConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [DomainsLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`DomainsConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [DomainsLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`DomainsConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [DomainsRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`DomainsConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [DomainsBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsBackoffPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the backoff policy.\n\n### [DomainsConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure which operations are retried.\n\n### [DomainsPollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsPollingPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the long-running operations polling policy.\n\n### [DomainsRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsRetryPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the retry policy.\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### MakeDomainsConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`DomainsConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [DomainsClient](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`DomainsConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1_1_1DomainsConnection). Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:\n\n- [`google::cloud::CommonOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::GrpcOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::UnifiedCredentialsOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::domains_v1::DomainsPolicyOptionList`](/cpp/docs/reference/domains/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1domains__v1)\n\n| **Note:** Unexpected options will be ignored. To log unexpected options instead, set `GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CLOG=yes` in the environment.\n\n### MakeDefaultDomainsConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()\n\nType Aliases\n------------\n\n### DomainsPolicyOptionList\n\n**Alias Of** : `OptionList\u003c DomainsRetryPolicyOption, DomainsBackoffPolicyOption, DomainsPollingPolicyOption, DomainsConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption \u003e` \nThe options applicable to Domains."]]