.com

Register a .com domain

The default extension worldwide, run by Verisign under an ICANN agreement. Open to anyone, and governed by transfer and expiry rules that catch people out.

Extension type: Generic (gTLD)
Who can register: Open to anyone
Registry: Verisign
Renews at: On request

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.com pricing

Live pricing is temporarily unavailable for .com.

Live pricing is temporarily unavailable. Search the name you want, or ask us and we will quote it.

Before you register .com

What the price includes: Every .com amount on this page is resolved by the same pricing engine that charges your cart, at the moment the page is built. There is no separate ICANN fee, agency fee or surcharge added later — the figure you see is the figure you pay, in the currency shown.
Premium and reserved names: Some names are classed as premium by the registry and priced individually, usually at the premium rate every year rather than only the first. Search the exact name to see its own quote. If a name's premium status or price changes between your quote and your purchase, the quote is invalidated rather than quietly repriced.
Renewal is not automatic unless you switch it on: Auto-renew is off unless you enable it, and enabling it sets a flag at the registry rather than scheduling a charge here. We email the registrant address before a name expires, so keep a monitored address on the record. If a .com name does lapse, restoring it costs considerably more than renewing it would have — the restore price is in the table above.
Transfers: Transferring .com to us needs the AuthInfo (EPP) code from your current registrar, which they are obliged to give you on request. Where the registry operates a waiting period before a name may move — ICANN imposes one on generic extensions — it is set out in the facts above. That is registry policy, not ours, and we cannot waive it.

Eligibility

Open to anyone, anywhere

Registry: Verisign, under a registry agreement with ICANN.

No residency, entity type or documentation requirement.
Registration is immediate when the name is free.
Accurate registrant contact data is a contractual obligation, and a domain with demonstrably false data can be suspended.

What you are actually buying

A .com is a contract, not a purchase. Verisign operates the registry under an agreement with ICANN; we are the registrar of record; you are the registrant, and you hold the right to use the name for as long as you keep renewing it. Nobody at any level of that chain owns it outright, which is why the renewal date is the only part of this that really matters.

Because .com is an ICANN-contracted gTLD, it runs the standard consensus policies rather than rules invented by the registry. That is mostly good news — the transfer process, the dispute process and the expiry sequence are the same everywhere and are published — but it does mean two specific rules bite regularly and neither is obvious.

The two rules that surprise people

The first is the transfer lock. A .com cannot be transferred to a different registrar for 60 days after it is registered, or for 60 days after a previous transfer. If you are consolidating domains with us as part of a migration, register nothing new at the old registrar first, and give the lock room in the plan.

The second is what happens after expiry, which is not one event but a sequence. The registrar may offer an auto-renew grace period of up to 45 days during which a simple renewal still works. Then the name is deleted into a 30-day Redemption Grace Period: DNS stops resolving — your site and your email go down — but only you can recover it, at the restore price rather than the renewal price. Then five days of pending delete, and then it is public. The restore price shown above is deliberately on the same screen as the renewal price so the gap between them is visible before you need it.

Renewal pricing, honestly

Registration, renewal, transfer and restore are all shown live above, from the same pricing engine that will charge your cart. There is no first-year promotional price here that quietly becomes something else in year two, because we would rather have a customer in five years than a conversion this week.

The wholesale price Verisign may charge is capped by its registry agreement with ICANN, dated 1 December 2024, and that ceiling may only be raised in some years of the contract rather than in all of them. Where our price moves, it moves because the ceiling did, and the .net page sets out how the two Verisign contracts differ on this point. Transferring a .com to us adds a year to the registration term rather than resetting it, so a transfer is rarely a wasted payment.

Terms and lifecycle

What holding a .com actually commits you to

Term: One to ten years, renewable. Multi-year registration is the cheapest insurance there is against forgetting a renewal.
If you miss the renewal: The name stops resolving, then sits in a 30-day redemption period during which only you can restore it — for the restore fee shown above, which is much higher than a renewal. After that come 5 days of pending delete, and then anyone can register it.
Transfer lock: ICANN policy locks a gTLD against registrar transfer for 60 days after registration and for 60 days after a previous transfer, so a newly registered name cannot move immediately.
Registrant changes: Historically, changing the registrant's name, organisation or email triggered a further 60-day transfer lock. ICANN policy work has recommended removing that restriction, so check with us before timing a change of registrant against a transfer.

Fit

Who .com is for

Anything with an audience outside Switzerland
Nobody has to be told what .com is. For an international audience it removes a question that a country extension raises.
The name you defend
Even businesses that lead with .ch usually hold the matching .com, because it is the address people guess and the one a competitor would enjoy owning.
Long-lived projects
Ten-year registrations are allowed. For anything you expect to still be running in a decade, that is a rational purchase.

Somewhere to point it

Controlled WordPress Beta or Medusa Preview onboarding on our Kubernetes platform, with the domain attached after service setup.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I transfer my .com to you immediately?

Not if it was registered or transferred within the last 60 days — ICANN policy locks it for that period. Otherwise yes: unlock it at your current registrar, get the auth code, and start the transfer here. The transfer adds a year to the existing expiry rather than replacing it.

What happens if my .com expires?

There is usually an auto-renew grace period of up to 45 days when a normal renewal still works. After that the name is deleted into a 30-day redemption period: it stops resolving, so your site and email stop, but only you can restore it — at the restore price shown above, which is much higher than a renewal. Then 5 days of pending delete, then anyone can take it.

How many years can I register for?

One to ten. If the domain matters, a multi-year registration is the cheapest protection against a lapsed card or a changed email address.

Do I need to give real contact details?

Yes. Accurate registrant data is a contractual requirement for gTLDs, and a domain with demonstrably false data can be suspended. Your details are not published in full in public WHOIS.

Is .com better than .ch for a Swiss business?

They answer different questions. A Swiss customer guesses .ch; an international one guesses .com. Most businesses selling in both directions hold both and redirect one to the other.