New Zealand uses .co.nz, .nz, 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 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, domain.co.nz prints the lowest standing .nz price: NZD 33.35 incl. VAT, computed from NZD 29.00 ex. VAT, then Gandi at NZD 44.98 incl. VAT, computed from NZD 39.11 ex. VAT. Domain Name Commission accredits 42 registrars to sell .nz; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .nz in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in New Zealand, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by Domain Name Commission Limited (.nz, operated for InternetNZ)
These 42 companies are accredited by the New Zealand registry to sell .nz, .co.nz. Every figure below is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-29.
Domain Name Commission Limited (.nz, operated for InternetNZ) publishes 42 registrars under contract for .nz, .co.nz. 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 English / Maori site, bill in NZD and sell .co.nz?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in New Zealand 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; NZD has not been established either way.
Not among the registrars recorded as selling .co.nz.
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 .nz: Domain Name Commission-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
The DNC list of .nz authorised registrars (42 names) was read on 2026-09-29, and 11 storefronts from it were opened. Crazy Domains returned a bot wall, Moreweb 502, and Kiwi Internet 404 then a timeout; 123 Internet, Website World and Affordable Domains printed no .nz figure, and Porkbun showed a bare "$". Four stores print a standing .nz price in New Zealand dollars excluding 15% GST.
Ordered by the standing .nz 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 15% 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 .nz 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 15% 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 .nz price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
AAffordable DomainsOnly a general "starting from $20.00 /year" with no .nz figure and no GST treatment.
PPorkbunA bare "$" does not establish New Zealand dollars, and no GST treatment is stated.
Not read on 2026-09-29: Crazy Domains (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); Kiwi Internet (The domains page returned 404 and the home page timed out on 2026-09-29. Nothing priced was read.); Moreweb NZ (HTTP 502 on both reads on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in New Zealand
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in New Zealand.
Porkbun, AWS Route 53 sell .co.nz, but none of them has been established to bill in NZD or to run a English or Maori-language storefront. Where we have simply not checked, the table above says so rather than counting it against them.
For .co.nz 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 New Zealand: 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.
Pricing fetched from each registrar's own pricing page on the date shown. Local registrars may bill in NZD and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
Sold by InternetNZ-accredited registrars and by international registrars including Porkbun (verified pricing on this site).
Namespace map
What you can register under .nz
The Public Suffix List records 16 registrable namespaces under .nz.
Registrable namespaces under .nz from the Public Suffix List, with which of the registrars this site tracks sell each one and the cheapest renewal price we have verified.
Operator: InternetNZ · .nz signed in the root zone (2026-09-28)
A namespace no tracked registrar sells is not a namespace you cannot register: most country-code registries delegate to their own accredited registrars, listed above where we have the registry's list. It is also not a namespace anyone may register - registries reserve some for schools, government, health services or licensed providers, and this table states eligibility only where we read it from the registry itself.
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 NZD.
Can a registrar we track handle New Zealand?
.co.nz is sold by 2 of the registrars whose prices we verify, renewing from $14.99: more than the cheapest verified .com at $10.18.
At $14.99 a year, .co.nz is 41st of 295 by price among the extensions we verify: $4.81 more than the cheapest verified .com. The local extension is a premium here, not a saving.
New Zealand ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
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 New Zealand compare. We list 42 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 New Zealand Dollar (NZD), 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 New Zealand?+
Of the 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, domain.co.nz prints the lowest standing .nz price: NZD 33.35 incl. VAT, computed from NZD 29.00 ex. VAT, then Gandi at NZD 44.98 incl. VAT, computed from NZD 39.11 ex. VAT. Domain Name Commission accredits 42 registrars to sell .nz; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .nz in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in New Zealand, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .co.nz domain?+
Open globally; no New Zealand presence required.
Which global registrars sell .co.nz?+
Porkbun, AWS Route 53. Sold by InternetNZ-accredited registrars and by international registrars including Porkbun (verified pricing on this site).
Which currency are domains billed in for users in New Zealand?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in New Zealand Dollar (NZD). Verified international registrars bill in USD; local InternetNZ (.nz Registry Services) registrars typically bill in NZD.
What payment methods work in New Zealand?+
Verified international registrars bill in USD; local InternetNZ (.nz Registry Services) registrars typically bill in NZD.
