Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .cloud at the 3 registrars we track, lowest 3-year cost first. Each price shows the date it was last verified. Prices verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
| Registrar | Register | Renew | Transfer | 3 years | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVHcloud | $2.33/yr | $21.39/yr | $19.99 | $45.11 | 13 Sep 2026 (stale) |
| Porkbun | $3.88/yr | $21.11/yr | $21.11 | $46.10 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| GoDaddy | $3.99/yr | $39.99/yr | — | $83.97 | 4 Oct 2026 |
Renews at more than 1.8× the first-year price: OVHcloud ($2.33 → $21.39, 9.18×); Porkbun ($3.88 → $21.11, 5.44×); GoDaddy ($3.99 → $39.99, 10.02×).
.cloud is a generic top-level domain, delegated in 2015, and IANA records ARUBA PEC S.p.A. as its sponsoring organisation, in Italy. The registry points registrants at get.cloud for registration services. That delegation record was last updated on 18 Dec 2025; if the registry has changed hands since, IANA is where it shows up first.
Source: IANA Root Zone Database (checked 16 Sep 2026)
2,446 .cloud names are among the 1,000,000 most-visited sites on the 15 Sep 2026 Tranco ranking. 24 of them are inside the top ten thousand and 348 inside the top hundred thousand. The highest-ranked .cloud sites on that list include skyhigh.cloud (#463), nexthink.cloud (#1,006), oath.cloud (#2,489) and scw.cloud (#2,931).
Source: Tranco list N2PYW, 15 Sep 2026 (checked 16 Sep 2026)
The registry's own site for .cloud publishes no eligibility criteria: it presents the extension and points at registrars, and states no test a registrant has to pass. Its registry agreement with ICANN, signed 16 April 2015, is recorded as Base, Non-Sponsored — no sponsoring community stands behind the extension, so there is no community test to pass.
Source: get.cloud, the registry's own site (checked 16 Sep 2026) · ICANN registry agreement record (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Availability of .cloud names is checked against the registry's own RDAP server (rdap.registry.cloud) and 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 3 registrars we track is $21.11 a year at Porkbun. The highest is $39.99 at GoDaddy, so the same .cloud name costs $18.88 a year more depending on where it sits. Prices verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
3 of the 3 do: OVHcloud sells the first year at $2.33 and renews at $21.39, Porkbun sells the first year at $3.88 and renews at $21.11, GoDaddy sells the first year at $3.99 and renews at $39.99. The 3-year column on this page is registration plus two renewals, which is where that shows up.
3 of the six registrars in our price table: OVHcloud, Porkbun and GoDaddy. The others either do not sell .cloud 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 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.