Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .dev 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 | $8.48/yr | $12.62/yr | $12.62 | $33.72 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Porkbun | $8.75/yr | $12.87/yr | $12.87 | $34.49 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Cloudflare | $12.20/yr | $12.20/yr | $12.20 | $36.60 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| OVHcloud | $9.91/yr | $17.19/yr | $17.19 | $44.29 | 13 Sep 2026 (stale) |
| Namecheap | $10.98/yr | $20.98/yr | $15.98 | $52.94 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| GoDaddy | $16.19/yr | $24.19/yr | $24.19 | $64.57 | 4 Oct 2026 |
Renews at more than 1.8× the first-year price: Namecheap ($10.98 → $20.98, 1.91×).
.dev is a generic top-level domain, delegated in 2014, and IANA records Charleston Road Registry Inc. as its sponsoring organisation, in the United States of America. The registry points registrants at registry.google for registration services. That delegation record was last updated on 11 Apr 2025; if the registry has changed hands since, IANA is where it shows up first.
Source: IANA Root Zone Database (checked 16 Sep 2026)
1,505 .dev names are among the 1,000,000 most-visited sites on the 15 Sep 2026 Tranco ranking. 19 of them are inside the top ten thousand and 208 inside the top hundred thousand. The highest-ranked .dev sites on that list include workers.dev (#79), aws.dev (#113), amazon.dev (#135) and pages.dev (#229).
Source: Tranco list N2PYW, 15 Sep 2026 (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Google Registry publishes no eligibility requirement for .dev; the practical condition is technical rather than who you are — you need working HTTPS from the first day the name resolves. Every .dev name is HTTPS-only. The whole extension sits on the HSTS preload list built into browsers, so a browser refuses a plain-HTTP connection to any .dev address before it is ever made — a certificate is not optional here, and no per-site configuration turns it on. Its registry agreement with ICANN, signed 16 October 2014, is recorded as Base, Non-Sponsored — no sponsoring community stands behind the extension, so there is no community test to pass.
Source: Google Registry (checked 16 Sep 2026) · ICANN registry agreement record (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Availability of .dev names is checked against the registry's own RDAP server (pubapi.registry.google) 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 $12.20 a year at Cloudflare. The highest is $24.19 at GoDaddy, so the same .dev name costs $11.99 a year more depending on where it sits. Prices verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
One registrar does: Namecheap sells the first year at $10.98 and renews at $20.98. 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, Porkbun, Cloudflare, OVHcloud, Namecheap and GoDaddy. Each row carries its own verification date; these were verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.