.radio

Register a .radio domain

Fast and secure .radio domain registration with full DNS management.

Extension type: Generic (gTLD)
Who can register: Eligibility rules apply
Registry: Digity
Renews at: On request

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.radio pricing

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Before you register .radio

What the price includes: Every .radio 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 .radio name does lapse, restoring it costs considerably more than renewing it would have — the restore price is in the table above.
Transfers: Transferring .radio 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.
Who may register: .radio is a restricted extension. The registry's eligibility rules are set out above and are checked by the registry, not by us — a registration that does not qualify is refused or later cancelled by them, and we refund what we can rather than what we would like to.

Restricted extension

Restricted to the radio community, validated case by case

Registry: Digity, LLC, registry operator since early 2026, taking over from the European Broadcasting Union; technical operations by CORE Association, Geneva.

You must be an individual or legal entity with a nexus to the radio community — the published policy gives broadcast livestreams, radio programme content, individual radio professional activity, radio events, and the supply of radio-related services or equipment as examples.
That covers broadcast stations, internet radio, radio amateurs, radio professionals and radio-supply businesses. It does not cover a podcast, an audio agency or a music brand with no radio connection.
Every applicant must state the intended use of the name. The registry validates the nexus case by case, before or after registration, and a false statement of intended use is treated as bad faith and can cost you the name.
The nexus is a continuing condition, not a one-off check: clause 2.1 requires it at registration and thereafter, and the registry may suspend or cancel a name whose holder has lost it.

What the eligibility test really asks of you

Most restricted extensions check a registry entry or an address. .radio checks what you do. The registration policy requires a nexus to the radio community, defines it by example rather than by a closed list, and hands the registry an explicit case-by-case validation power — pre-registration or post-registration, at its discretion. Alongside the ordinary contact data, registrars must collect and pass on a statement of your intended use for the name.

That makes the honest answer on timing a range rather than a number. If you run a station, hold an amateur licence or sell radio equipment, the nexus is easy to evidence and the application is unremarkable. If your connection to radio is aspirational, the policy is unusually direct about the consequences: a false statement of intended use is an indication of bad faith and grounds for suspension, and there is a dedicated appeal route, the .radio Eligibility and Reconsideration Dispute Resolution Procedure, precisely because eligibility decisions get made and contested.

The registry changed hands in 2026 — what that means

The European Broadcasting Union won .radio in 2016 and ran it as a community namespace for the radio sector. In early 2026 the registry contract passed to Digity, LLC, and IANA's root database now names Digity as the sponsoring organisation, with CORE Association in Geneva as technical contact. The change of operator does not, by itself, change the rules: .radio is a Specification 12 community gTLD, so the community eligibility and use restrictions sit in the ICANN registry agreement rather than in the operator's goodwill, and the registration policy as published still sets out the nexus test above.

We will not pretend to know what the new operator does next; industry observers have publicly questioned whether the community model survives, and that is an open question rather than a fact. What we can commit to is not selling you a name on a promise we cannot keep. We are a reseller: we submit the application and the intended-use statement, we cannot pre-approve a nexus and we will not tell you a .radio name is instant. Registration, renewal, transfer and restore prices are shown live above before you commit.

Terms and lifecycle

What holding a .radio actually commits you to

Term and renewal: Renewal is not automatic in the way an unrestricted extension's is. The registration policy makes eligibility a condition of renewing as well as registering, so a holder who has left the radio sector cannot simply keep paying to keep the name.
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.
Name selection: The name has to connect to the registrant's own name or activities. Generic words are only available to a registrant whose name or broadcasting activity relates to them, and generic terms with a specific meaning for the radio community — station categories, formats, genres, radio technologies — are held back for community use.
If the registry queries you: Where the registry finds a compliance or data-accuracy problem it contacts you to correct it. If it is unresolved after 30 days the name is suspended for a further 30 days, and unless it is fixed by then the name can be cancelled with no refund of registry fees. Failing to answer a registrar query for more than 10 days is itself grounds for action.

Fit

Who .radio is for

Broadcasters and internet radio
A station with a stream and a schedule is the archetypal registrant. .radio says what the site is in a way a generic extension cannot, and the gate is the point: everyone else holding one had to qualify too.
Radio amateurs and radio professionals
Licensed amateurs and individuals working professionally in radio are named in the eligibility categories. A callsign or a personal professional site clears the nexus test comfortably.
Not for podcasts or general audio
This is the most common mistaken purchase. A podcast, an audio production house or a music project with no broadcast or radio-sector connection does not meet the nexus test, and a name obtained by overstating it can be cancelled later. Buy an unrestricted extension instead.

If the nexus test is not for you

Streaming projects and audio brands without a radio-sector connection are better served by an unrestricted extension. .online registers immediately with no eligibility review.

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