Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .com at the 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spaceship | $9.08/yr | $10.18/yr | $9.68 | $29.44 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Cloudflare | $10.46/yr | $10.46/yr | $10.46 | $31.38 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Porkbun | $11.08/yr | $11.08/yr | $11.08 | $33.24 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| OVHcloud | $9.20/yr | $14.69/yr | $9.20 | $38.58 | 13 Sep 2026 (stale) |
| Namecheap | $11.28/yr | $18.48/yr | $11.48 | $48.24 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| GoDaddy | $5.19/yr | $23.19/yr | $13.19 | $51.57 | 4 Oct 2026 |
Renews at more than 1.8× the first-year price: GoDaddy ($5.19 → $23.19, 4.47×).
.com is a generic top-level domain, delegated in 1985, and IANA records VeriSign Global Registry Services as its sponsoring organisation, in the United States of America. The registry points registrants at verisigninc.com for registration services. That delegation record was last updated on 10 Mar 2026; if the registry has changed hands since, IANA is where it shows up first.
Source: IANA Root Zone Database (checked 16 Sep 2026)
425,810 .com names are among the 1,000,000 most-visited sites on the 15 Sep 2026 Tranco ranking. 5,001 of them are inside the top ten thousand and 45,558 inside the top hundred thousand. The highest-ranked .com sites on that list include google.com (#1), cloudflare.com (#2), facebook.com (#3) and gstatic.com (#4).
Source: Tranco list N2PYW, 15 Sep 2026 (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Verisign runs the authoritative registry for .com, alongside the other three it names, and sells nothing directly — every registration goes through an ICANN-accredited registrar. Its registry agreement with ICANN, signed 1 December 2024, is recorded as Non-Sponsored — no sponsoring community stands behind the extension, so there is no community test to pass.
Source: Verisign, registry operator (checked 16 Sep 2026) · ICANN registry agreement record (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Availability of .com names is checked against the registry's own RDAP server (rdap.verisign.com) and DNS-over-HTTPS. On this site your browser asks that server directly for a first, provisional answer; our server's check confirms it, and only that answer is cached. 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 6 registrars we track is $10.18 a year at Spaceship. The highest is $23.19 at GoDaddy, so the same .com name costs $13.01 a year more depending on where it sits. Prices verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
One registrar does: GoDaddy sells the first year at $5.19 and renews at $23.19. The 3-year column on this page is registration plus two renewals, which is where that shows up.
All six of the registrars in our price table: Spaceship, Cloudflare, Porkbun, OVHcloud, Namecheap and GoDaddy. Each row carries its own verification date; these were verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.