Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .tools 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porkbun | $9.78/yr | $29.35/yr | $29.35 | $68.48 | 4 Oct 2026 |
| OVHcloud | $16.17/yr | $35.69/yr | $35.09 | $87.55 | 13 Sep 2026 (stale) |
| GoDaddy | $14.99/yr | $61.99/yr | — | $138.97 | 27 Sep 2026 |
Renews at more than 1.8× the first-year price: Porkbun ($9.78 → $29.35, 3.00×); OVHcloud ($16.17 → $35.69, 2.21×); GoDaddy ($14.99 → $61.99, 4.14×).
.tools is a generic top-level domain, delegated in 2014, and IANA records Binky Moon, LLC as its sponsoring organisation, in the United States of America. The registry points registrants at identity.digital for registration services. That delegation record was last updated on 7 Oct 2025; if the registry has changed hands since, IANA is where it shows up first.
Source: IANA Root Zone Database (checked 16 Sep 2026)
182 .tools 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 21 are inside the top hundred thousand — this is an extension of smaller sites rather than heavily-trafficked ones. The highest-ranked .tools sites on that list include fzbox.tools (#14,316), mygames.tools (#14,836), vwfs.tools (#15,258) and tstaging.tools (#16,241).
Source: Tranco list N2PYW, 15 Sep 2026 (checked 16 Sep 2026)
Identity Digital sets no qualifying criteria for .tools: the requirement it does state is that every registrant holds a registration agreement with an ICANN-accredited registrar and keeps its contact details accurate. Its acceptable use policy covers every TLD it runs and lets the registry deny, suspend, cancel, redirect or transfer a name at its sole discretion — for malware, phishing, spam, botnets, DNS hijacking, denial-of-service or child abuse imagery, among other listed abuses. Some names are held back regardless: the registry reserves names for its own operations, for ICANN requirements and as premium inventory, and that list can change at any time. Its registry agreement with ICANN, signed 21 November 2013, is recorded as Base, Non-Sponsored — no sponsoring community stands behind the extension, so there is no community test to pass.
Source: Identity Digital acceptable use policy (checked 16 Sep 2026) · Identity Digital reserved names policy (checked 16 Sep 2026) · ICANN registry agreement record (checked 16 Sep 2026)
The RDAP server for .tools 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 3 registrars we track is $29.35 a year at Porkbun. The highest is $61.99 at GoDaddy, so the same .tools name costs $32.64 a year more depending on where it sits. Prices verified between 13 Sep 2026 and 4 Oct 2026.
3 of the 3 do: Porkbun sells the first year at $9.78 and renews at $29.35, OVHcloud sells the first year at $16.17 and renews at $35.69, GoDaddy sells the first year at $14.99 and renews at $61.99. 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: Porkbun, OVHcloud and GoDaddy. The others either do not sell .tools 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.