Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .build at the 2 registrars we track, lowest 3-year cost first. Each price shows the date it was last verified. Prices verified between 27 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
| Registrar | Register | Renew | Transfer | 3 years | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porkbun | $26.26/yr | $26.26/yr | $26.26 | $78.78 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| GoDaddy | $49.99/yr | $49.99/yr | — | $149.97 | 27 Sep 2026 |
None of the 2 registrars we track renews .build at more than 1.8× its first-year price.
.build is a generic top-level domain, delegated in 2014, and IANA records Plan Bee LLC as its sponsoring organisation, in the United States of America. The registry points registrants at about.build for registration services. That delegation record was last updated on 5 Oct 2023; if the registry has changed hands since, IANA is where it shows up first.
Source: IANA Root Zone Database (checked 16 Sep 2026)
46 .build names are among the 1,000,000 most-visited sites on the 15 Sep 2026 Tranco ranking. 1 of them is inside the top ten thousand and 12 inside the top hundred thousand. The highest-ranked .build sites on that list include gist.build (#4,489), neon.build (#15,695), astro.build (#17,986) and lineascan.build (#45,316).
Source: Tranco list N2PYW, 15 Sep 2026 (checked 16 Sep 2026)
The registry publishes no eligibility requirement. Its FAQ answers the question of whether any name can be had with “certain exceptions” and names no qualifying criteria. Plan Bee LLC presents .build as a domain for the building industry, technology companies and makers. Its registry agreement with ICANN, signed 7 November 2013, is recorded as Base, Non-Sponsored — no sponsoring community stands behind the extension, so there is no community test to pass.
Source: about.build FAQ, the registry's own site (checked 16 Sep 2026) · about.build, the registry's own site (checked 16 Sep 2026) · ICANN registry agreement record (checked 16 Sep 2026)
The RDAP server for .build is looked up in IANA's bootstrap registry at check time, with the public rdap.org aggregator as a fallback, and checked together with DNS-over-HTTPS. Premium suspects (such as very short names) and brand-protected labels also get a third signal, Fastly Domain Research, before they are shown as available.
The lowest renewal among the 2 registrars we track is $26.26 a year at Porkbun. The highest is $49.99 at GoDaddy, so the same .build name costs $23.73 a year more depending on where it sits. Prices verified between 27 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
Not at the registrars we track: none of the 2 renews .build at more than 1.8× its first-year price. The 3-year column is registration plus two renewals, so a change would show there.
2 of the six registrars in our price table: Porkbun and GoDaddy. The others either do not sell .build or have not been re-verified recently enough to show, and a price we cannot re-verify is not printed. Each row carries its own verification date; these were verified between 27 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.