Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .inc at the 2 registrars we track, lowest 3-year cost first. Each price shows the date it was last verified. Prices verified 4 Oct 2026.
| Registrar | Register | Renew | Transfer | 3 years | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | $499.99/yr | $3.00/yr | — | $505.99 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Porkbun | $257.98/yr | $257.98/yr | — | $773.94 | 4 Oct 2026 |
None of the 2 registrars we track renews .inc at more than 1.8× its first-year price.
.inc is a generic top-level domain, delegated in 2018, and IANA records Intercap Registry Inc. as its sponsoring organisation, in the Cayman Islands. The registry points registrants at get.inc for registration services. That delegation record was last updated on 17 Nov 2023; if the registry has changed hands since, IANA is where it shows up first.
Source: IANA Root Zone Database (checked 16 Sep 2026)
64 .inc names are among the 1,000,000 most-visited sites on the 15 Sep 2026 Tranco ranking. None of them reaches the top ten thousand, and 9 are inside the top hundred thousand — this is an extension of smaller sites rather than heavily-trafficked ones. The highest-ranked .inc sites on that list include alta.inc (#15,733), openintegration.inc (#25,821), people.inc (#28,855) and self.inc (#29,085).
Source: Tranco list N2PYW, 15 Sep 2026 (checked 16 Sep 2026)
The registry's own site for .inc 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 10 March 2018, is recorded as Base, Non-Sponsored — no sponsoring community stands behind the extension, so there is no community test to pass.
Source: get.inc, the registry's own site (checked 16 Sep 2026) · ICANN registry agreement record (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Availability of .inc names is checked against the registry's own RDAP server (rdap.centralnic.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 2 registrars we track is $3.00 a year at GoDaddy. The highest is $257.98 at Porkbun, so the same .inc name costs $254.98 a year more depending on where it sits. Prices verified 4 Oct 2026.
Not at the registrars we track: none of the 2 renews .inc 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: GoDaddy and Porkbun. The others either do not sell .inc 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 4 Oct 2026.