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.name Domains: prices, rules and registry

.name is a restricted generic top-level domain listed in the authoritative IANA Root Zone Database. Its listed manager is VeriSign Information Services, Inc.

  • RegistryVeriSign Information Services, Inc.
  • Registration fromUSD $6.89
  • Reported metrics26
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Signal profile

  • Brevity 88
  • Namespace depth 23
  • RDAP readiness 100
  • DNSSEC 100
  • NS breadth 50
  • Registration scale 60

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About .name domains

.name is a restricted generic extension. Its registry manager is VeriSign Information Services, Inc.. Recorded standard registration prices start at USD $6.89 for the first year; renewal rates are compared below.

Who can register a .name domain?

Registration eligibility has not yet been verified in this directory. Check the registry’s current policy before registering; country-code and sponsored extensions can have specific requirements.

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Registration and renewal costs

Cheapest places to register .name in our comparison

Compare recorded standard retail rates in USD. Registrars are ordered by estimated five-year cost. This is one registration plus four renewals at today’s recorded renewal rate.

.name registration, annual renewal and estimated five-year costs in USD
RegistrarRegister (1 year)Renew (1 year)5-year costPrice evidence
Dynadot USD $7.27 USD $7.27 USD $36.35 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Porkbun USD $7.31 USD $7.31 USD $36.55 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Freename USD $6.89 USD $7.56 USD $37.13 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Above.com USD $7.48 USD $7.48 USD $37.40 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
NicNames USD $7.79 USD $7.79 USD $38.95 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
VEBONIX USD $7.81 USD $7.81 USD $39.05 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Alibaba Cloud USD $7.99 USD $7.99 USD $39.95 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Cloudean USD $8.16 USD $8.16 USD $40.80 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
ConnectReseller USD $8.29 USD $8.29 USD $41.45 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Netcetera USD $8.83 USD $8.83 USD $44.15 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Regery USD $8.99 USD $8.99 USD $44.95 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
GKG.NET USD $9.17 USD $9.17 USD $45.85 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Namecheap USD $9.18 USD $10.18 USD $49.90 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
ClouDNS USD $9.99 USD $9.99 USD $49.95 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Amazon Route 53 USD $10.00 USD $10.00 USD $50.00 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
QualiSpace USD $10.00 USD $10.00 USD $50.00 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Pananames USD $10.20 USD $10.20 USD $51.00 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
Atak Domain USD $10.22 USD $10.99 USD $54.18 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
ExonHost USD $10.97 USD $10.97 USD $54.85 5 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate
REGtons USD $11.00 USD $11.00 USD $55.00 4 Oct 2026Outside refresh window; confirm rate

These are source-reported prices, not a guarantee of availability or checkout cost. Promotions and premium domains are excluded; tax, fees, eligibility and future renewal changes may affect your total. Open a registrar profile for its source details.

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Domains
95.5K domains
Active registrars
160 registrar accounts
DNS queries
14.38B queries/month

Everything on record

26 reported metrics for .name

Grouped as the registry reports them. Each figure carries its source, when it was observed and a quality grade, and any metric with a trend can be opened for its full history.

Root zone and registry agreement

The facts that do not change monthly

Delegation, operator and protocol support, taken from the IANA root zone and the ICANN registry agreement data.

Registry manager
VeriSign Information Services, Inc.

IANA Root Zone Database

Registry operator
VeriSign, Inc.

ICANN registry agreement

Delegated to the root
4 January 2002

ICANN gTLD contract data

Registry contract signed
1 December 2012

ICANN gTLD contract data

Authoritative nameservers
4

IANA root zone

DNSSEC signed
Yes

Root delegation DS record

RDAP available
Yes

IANA RDAP bootstrap registry

Internationalised label
No

IANA root zone

Third-level registration
Yes

ICANN registry agreement

Specification 13 brand TLD
No

ICANN registry agreement

Namespace beneath .name

1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.

4 Private boundary rules Privately operated suffixes, such as hosting subdomains.

Where this comes from

Every figure is traceable

Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled. Each metric names the source it came from and the month it was observed, and a metric with no observation is shown as unknown rather than filled with a zero.

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Enrichment snapshot generated . Registry reporting runs a month or two behind, so the newest observation is rarely this month.

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