Chile uses .cl, open to registrants worldwide. Below: who operates each namespace, what its rules actually constrain, the accredited local registrars, and how global registrars compare on price where we hold a sourced figure.
Of the 9 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, NIC Chile prints the lowest standing .cl price: CLP 9,990 incl. VAT, then HostingPlus at CLP 39,270 incl. VAT, computed from CLP 33,000 ex. VAT; CLP 15,000 first year. NIC Chile accredits 35 registrars to sell .cl; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .cl in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Chile, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by NIC Chile
These 35 companies are accredited by the Chile registry to sell .cl. Every column is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-29. Listed in the registry's own order.
Registrars accredited by NIC Chile, with website and whether the registry lists each as supporting DNSSEC. No prices and no scores: none of these registrars has been tested by this site.
0 of 35 are listed by the registry as supporting DNSSEC. “Not published” means the registry does not list that registrar as supporting it, which is not the same as the registrar not supporting it. We have not tested any of these registrars, so nothing here carries a price, a score or a ranking. Comparing them on price and service is work we have not done, and saying which is better would be invention.
Which registrars have a Spanish site, bill in CLP and sell .cl?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in Chile rather than merely to the world from it: an interface in an official language, billing in the local currency, and selling the local namespace. All three must hold. No registrar we track currently meets all three here.
The English storefront was read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefronts were read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All prices are in USD" is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, so this is a recorded 'no' on every non-USD currency rather than an absence.
The English storefronts were read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All pricing is per year and in USD." is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, as Porkbun's is; recorded as a 'no' on every non-USD currency.
The English storefront was read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Read billing in EUR and PKR and BRL and ARS and COP and TRY and INR and UAH and PLN and CZK and IDR and PHP and SEK and DKK; CLP has not been established either way.
The German and English and Italian storefronts were read and Spanish was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
No registrar tracked here is recorded as selling .cl.
Nofails one condition
A dash is ignorance, not a failing grade: it means we have not established that condition either way. Several registrars render their language and currency switchers in JavaScript, which the read behind this table cannot see, so we record nothing rather than a false “no”. A currency that appears only in a display selector does not count as billing in that currency, because a converted price charged in dollars is exactly the case this condition exists to catch.
Where to buy a .cl: NIC Chile-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
Nine storefronts were opened in a real browser: NIC Chile itself and eight sellers. Two give a comparable price with tax treatment and are ranked: NIC Chile at $ 9.990 CLP per year, printed as "Exento de IVA" (recorded as tax included, meaning no IVA is added), and HostingPlus at $15.000 + IVA first year and $33.000 + IVA renewal. Bluehosting prints $ 12.900 Anual + IVA with a bare dollar sign and DonWeb prints Pesos Chilenos without tax wording. Haulmer, Jumpseller and V2Networks showed no domain page (404), GoDaddy a 403 bot wall, and Hostinger has no Chilean storefront.
Ordered by the standing .cl price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 19% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
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Registrar
.cl standing price, incl. VAT
First year
Renewal
source
1
NNIC ChileSpanish storefront, bills in CLP
CLP 9,990as printed, Valor en CLP (Pesos Chilenos) Exento de IVA
Ordered by the standing .cl price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 19% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
Read, not ranked
A local-language storefront, but no .cl price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
BBluehostingThe page prints .cl at $ 12.900 Anual + IVA, but with a bare "$" and no currency name or code, so the currency is not established from the page.
DDonWebThe page prints .cl at $12.970 per year in Pesos Chilenos but states no tax treatment (no IVA wording).
Not read on 2026-09-29: Haulmer (Homepage shows no domain product; https://www.haulmer.com/dominios and /dominios-cl returned HTTP 404.); Jumpseller (Homepage is an online-store builder with no domain prices; the domains address tried returned HTTP 404.); V2Networks (Homepage prices hosting plans only (in "$ ... + IVA"); the domains address tried returned HTTP 404.); GoDaddy (HTTP 403 "Access Denied" bot wall. Nothing read.); Hostinger (HTTP 404 "Not Found"; hostinger.com/cl also returned 404, so no Chilean storefront was found.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in Chile
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in Chile.
No registrar we track is recorded as selling .cl at all, so the namespace condition fails before language or currency is reached.
For .cl itself, the registry’s own accredited registrars are the route, and they are listed on this page above. We have not tested them, so we name them rather than rank them.
does not bill in CLP; does not sell .cl; no Spanish-language storefront established
Verified .com renewal of $11.08. Not the cheapest .com we verify: Spaceship renews at $10.18, 9% less. Porkbun is the pick here for catalogue breadth, not for price. WHOIS privacy: free, included by default.
Buying a gTLD through an English-language registrar that bills in dollars is a real and common choice, so it is named with the trade stated rather than dropped. It is not a recommendation in Chile: the conditions it misses are in the column above.
Business use, globally
Namecheap
Support channels: 24/7 live chat, ticket support, knowledge base.
Developers, globally
Cloudflare Registrar
Industry-leading anycast DNS with deep developer tooling. Public API documented.
These two are the site’s global picks and are the same on every country page, which is why they are labelled globally and sit outside the table above. Nothing about a registrar’s API or its support channels changes at a border; what does change is language, billing currency and whether it can sell the local namespace, and that is what the eligibility table measures.
Local presence: No. Any natural or legal person, domestic or foreign, may hold a .cl name, and since the 2013 rules foreign registrants no longer need a representative domiciled in Chile.
DNSSEC: Signed at the root
IDN: Spanish accented characters and the letter n with tilde are supported.
Appointing an administrative contact is mandatory; that contact represents the holder for all regulatory purposes including dispute resolution. NIC Chile has operated a registrar accreditation programme since 2019 and reserves the right to request identity verification.
Purpose: Chile's country code, the default identity for Chilean businesses and institutions.
Eligibility: Open. Any natural or legal person, domestic or foreign, may register. No local representative or domicile in Chile is required.
Tracked registrars that sell .cl
None of the registrars we track sell .cl at retail: see the local registrar list below.
NIC Chile, run by the University of Chile, operates the registry and has run a registrar accreditation programme since 2019. An administrative contact is mandatory and acts as the holder's representative for regulatory purposes including dispute resolution. NIC Chile reserves the right to request information verifying the holder's identity.
Namespace map
What you can register under .cl
The Public Suffix List records 4 registrable namespaces under .cl.
Registrable namespaces under .cl from the Public Suffix List, with which of the registrars this site tracks sell each one and the cheapest renewal price we have verified.
Namespace
.co.cl
.gob.cl
.gov.cl
.mil.cl
Operator: NIC Chile (University of Chile) · .cl signed in the root zone (2026-09-28)
Verified and sample pricing per registrar for this TLD, with first-year, renewal, ten-year cost and the date each figure was checked
Registrar
First-year
Renewal
10-year cost
WHOIS privacy
Last checked
(verified price)
Spaceship
$9.08
$10.18
$100.70
Free
2026-09-02
(verified price)
Dynadot
$10.88
$10.88
$108.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Porkbun
$11.08
$11.08
$110.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
OVHcloud
$9.20
$14.69
$141.41
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
AAmazon Route 53
$16.00
$16.00
$160.00
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-29
(verified price)
NNameSilo
$17.29
$17.29
$172.90
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Namecheap
$11.28
$18.48
$177.60
Free, with exceptions
2026-08-19
(verified price)
Hover
$18.99
$18.99
$189.90
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
(verified price)
NName.com
$12.99
$19.99
$192.90
Available (Whois Privacy) o…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
IONOS
$1.00
$20.00
$181.00
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-29
(verified price)
Gandi
$11.00
$38.38
$356.42
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
Compared across the 11 registrars whose .com price we have read ourselves.
Most global registrars price domains in USD; local registrars often invoice in CLP.
Can a registrar we track handle Chile?
No registrar whose prices we verify sells .cl, so a local or specialist registrar is the only route to it. A global registrar can still hold the .com, which renews from $10.18 at the cheapest seller we verify: many owners here run both.
Chile ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.cl
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
Renewals are all-in and per year, at the cheapest registrar we verify for that extension, checked 2026-09-29. The .com reference is the cheapest verified .com renewal ($10.18). "Listed" counts registrars our country notes record as selling the extension without a price we have read ourselves.
What this page does not tell you: how the registrars based in Chile compare. We list 35 of them by name only, no prices, no scores, no hands-on testing, so any claim here that a local registrar is cheaper, better supported or easier to pay would be invention. Where local billing in Chilean Peso (CLP), local-language support, or a registry rule requires a local registrar, that is a reason to use one, and comparing them is work we have not done.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in Chile?+
Of the 9 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, NIC Chile prints the lowest standing .cl price: CLP 9,990 incl. VAT, then HostingPlus at CLP 39,270 incl. VAT, computed from CLP 33,000 ex. VAT; CLP 15,000 first year. NIC Chile accredits 35 registrars to sell .cl; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .cl in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Chile, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .cl domain?+
No. Any natural or legal person, domestic or foreign, may hold a .cl name, and since the 2013 rules foreign registrants no longer need a representative domiciled in Chile.
Which global registrars sell .cl?+
None of the registrars we track sell .cl at retail. NIC Chile, run by the University of Chile, operates the registry and has run a registrar accreditation programme since 2019. An administrative contact is mandatory and acts as the holder's representative for regulatory purposes including dispute resolution. NIC Chile reserves the right to request information verifying the holder's identity.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in Chile?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Chilean Peso (CLP). Chilean providers invoice in pesos with IVA itemised and accept local card rails and bank transfer. Global registrars bill in USD; Chilean cards generally work with the issuing bank's FX margin applied.
What payment methods work in Chile?+
Chilean providers invoice in pesos with IVA itemised and accept local card rails and bank transfer. Global registrars bill in USD; Chilean cards generally work with the issuing bank's FX margin applied.
