Gandi SAS

Can a member of the public buy a .cn here?

Yes, on the evidence of its own storefront: a Chinese, English interface, .cn among the namespaces offered, and a CNY price printed with its VAT treatment on 2026-10-26.

Namespaces on its own page

.cn

What its page printed

.cn domain prices: REGISTRATION 73.00元 per year, For 1 to 10 years; TRANSFER 64.00元; RENEWAL 229.00元 per year, For 1 to 9 years; "Prices for 中国, Taxes excluded, in ¥ (CNY)".

Read from https://www.gandi.net/zh-Hans/domain/tld/cn on 2026-10-26. A storefront read establishes the language, the currency and the figure the page printed that day. It does not establish support quality, uptime or what a renewal will cost next year.

How the China storefronts were read

Nine of the 120 .CN registrars on CNNIC's domestic and foreign lists were opened in a real browser, choosing the largest retail brands. Six were read, one rendered empty and two returned HTTP 502. The pages read price .cn in 元, often as 0元 or bulk promotions, and none states whether its prices include tax, so no storefront carries a comparable price. On 2026-10-15 the remaining 111 registrars on CNNIC's list that publish a website were opened, so every registrar on the list with a published website has now been tried: 72 were read, 39 could not be, and none of them prints a comparable .cn price. On 2026-10-20 the 42 storefronts that could not be read were opened again in a browser that waits longer for pages built by script, reads framed pages and follows a redirect from plain http to https: 24 were read this time, 18 still could not be, and none of those read prints a comparable .cn price. On 2026-10-26, 1 storefronts were read by hand, looking for a page that states the tax treatment of its .cn price: 0 were added and 1 re-read, and the number with a comparable .cn price went from 0 to 1.