Hong Kong uses .hk, .com.hk, .香港, 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 10 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, HKDNR prints the lowest standing .hk price: HKD 250.00 a year as printed, then Hosting Speed (環速網存) at HKD 250.00 a year as printed; HKD 99.00 first year. HKIRC accredits 49 registrars to sell .hk; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .hk in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Hong Kong, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by HKIRC (Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation)
These 49 companies are accredited by the Hong Kong registry to sell .hk, .香港. Every figure below is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-29.
HKIRC (Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation) publishes 49 registrars under contract for .hk, .香港. Of those, it lists 0 as offering DNSSEC.
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 Chinese (Traditional) / English site, bill in HKD and sell .hk?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in Hong Kong 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.
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.
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.
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; HKD has not been established either way.
No registrar tracked here is recorded as selling .hk.
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 .hk: HKIRC-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
Ten of the 49 registrars on HKIRC's list were opened in a real browser, taking the Hong Kong-based ones first. Seven were read; hkdns and 8hy.hk returned HTTP 502 and SeaArea refused the connection. HKDNR and Hosting Speed print a .hk price in Hong Kong dollars; Hong Kong has no VAT, so the printed figure is the full price. Dataplugs prices .hk in US dollars.
Ordered by the standing .hk 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 0% 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.
Ordered by the standing .hk 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 0% 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 .hk price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
時時代互聯 TnetOnly a first-year .hk offer (98HKD) is printed, with no regular or renewal price to compare.
DDataplugsThe page prices .hk in US dollars (USD $32.45 / year), not Hong Kong dollars.
Not read on 2026-09-29: hkdns (West263) (HTTP 502 on the homepage and the price page. Nothing read.); Hu Yi (8hy.hk) (HTTP 502. Nothing read.); SeaArea (Connection failed (tunnel connection error). Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in Hong Kong
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in Hong Kong.
No registrar we track is recorded as selling .hk at all, so the namespace condition fails before language or currency is reached.
For .hk 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.
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 Hong Kong: 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.
Policy authority: Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Ltd. (HKIRC)
Local presence: Depends on the category. Unrestricted .hk at the second level is open to local or overseas individuals and entities, generally with no documents required. .com.hk requires a Hong Kong Business Registration Certificate or a Certificate of Registration of a Non-Hong Kong Company; .org.hk requires proof of Hong Kong non-profit status; .net.hk requires a Communications Authority operator licence; .idv.hk is for Hong Kong residents only, with the name matching their legal name.
DNSSEC: Signed at the root
IDN: .香港 (punycode .xn--j6w193g) is delegated separately as Hong Kong's Chinese-character ccTLD.
An overseas company can qualify for .com.hk, but only by registering formally in Hong Kong first. The certificate is the gate, not the nationality of the owner.
Purpose: Hong Kong's country code at the second level, the open category.
Eligibility: Open. Local or overseas individuals and entities may register, generally with no supporting documents required for second-level registration.
Tracked registrars that sell .hk
None of the registrars we track sell .hk at retail: see the local registrar list below.
HKIRC operates the registry and publishes the eligibility table and registrar list. The unrestricted second level is the only Hong Kong string a foreign buyer can take without establishing local standing.
.com.hk
Last checked 2026-08-19
Purpose: Commercial third level, the conventional Hong Kong company identity.
Eligibility: Restricted to commercial entities registered in Hong Kong. Requires a Business Registration Certificate from the Inland Revenue Department, or a Certificate of Registration of a Non-Hong Kong Company from the Companies Registry.
Tracked registrars that sell .com.hk
None of the registrars we track sell .com.hk at retail: see the local registrar list below.
An overseas company can qualify, but only by registering formally in Hong Kong first. The certificate is the gate, not the nationality of the owner.
.香港
Last checked 2026-08-19
Purpose: Hong Kong's Chinese-character internationalised ccTLD.
Eligibility: Mirrors the .hk category structure, with the same per-category eligibility.
Tracked registrars that sell .香港
None of the registrars we track sell .香港 at retail: see the local registrar list below.
Punycode .xn--j6w193g. Separate delegation from .hk.
Namespace map
What you can register under .hk
The Public Suffix List records 21 registrable namespaces under .hk.
Registrable namespaces under .hk 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
.com.hk
.edu.hk
.gov.hk
.idv.hk
.net.hk
.org.hk
.个人.hk
.個人.hk
.公司.hk
.政府.hk
.敎育.hk
.教育.hk
.箇人.hk
.組織.hk
.組织.hk
.網絡.hk
.網络.hk
.组織.hk
.组织.hk
.网絡.hk
.网络.hk
Operator: Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Ltd. · .hk signed in the root zone (2026-09-28)
Registered directly under the root label
The Public Suffix List records no delegated second-level namespaces under this delegation: a name is registered directly under the root label, at the second level, rather than under a category such as co. or org.
.香港.xn--j6w193gHong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Ltd.signed in the root zone
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 HKD.
Can a registrar we track handle Hong Kong?
No registrar whose prices we verify sells any of the ccTLDs on this page, so a local or specialist registrar is the only route to them. A global registrar can still hold the .com, which renews from $10.18 at the cheapest seller we verify: many owners here run both.
Hong Kong ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.hk
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
.com.hk
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
.香港
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 Hong Kong compare. We list 49 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 Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), 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 Hong Kong?+
Of the 10 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, HKDNR prints the lowest standing .hk price: HKD 250.00 a year as printed, then Hosting Speed (環速網存) at HKD 250.00 a year as printed; HKD 99.00 first year. HKIRC accredits 49 registrars to sell .hk; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .hk in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Hong Kong, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .hk domain?+
Depends on the category. Unrestricted .hk at the second level is open to local or overseas individuals and entities, generally with no documents required. .com.hk requires a Hong Kong Business Registration Certificate or a Certificate of Registration of a Non-Hong Kong Company; .org.hk requires proof of Hong Kong non-profit status; .net.hk requires a Communications Authority operator licence; .idv.hk is for Hong Kong residents only, with the name matching their legal name.
Which global registrars sell .hk?+
None of the registrars we track sell .hk at retail. HKIRC operates the registry and publishes the eligibility table and registrar list. The unrestricted second level is the only Hong Kong string a foreign buyer can take without establishing local standing.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in Hong Kong?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Hong Kong Dollar (HKD). HKIRC registrars invoice in Hong Kong dollars. Global registrars bill in USD, and the HKD peg keeps that FX exposure small compared with most markets.
What payment methods work in Hong Kong?+
HKIRC registrars invoice in Hong Kong dollars. Global registrars bill in USD, and the HKD peg keeps that FX exposure small compared with most markets.
