Pakistan uses .pk, .com.pk, 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, none printed a .pk price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. PKNIC accredits 33 registrars to sell .pk; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .pk in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Pakistan, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by PKNIC (Pakistan Network Information Center)
These 33 companies are accredited by the Pakistan registry to sell .pk. 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 PKNIC (Pakistan Network Information Center), 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 33 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 Urdu / English site, bill in PKR and sell .pk?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in Pakistan 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.
No registrar tracked here is recorded as selling .pk.
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 .pk: PKNIC-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
Ten storefronts were opened: the registry's price page and nine resellers from PKNIC's partner list, chosen by partner tier and market presence, plus Hostinger Pakistan. PKNIC prints Rs. 2100 per year and Domain Host Rs.2500 for two years, neither with tax wording; WebSouls and ServerSea print no .pk price. creativeON (404), HOST n DOMAIN (405), WinsHosting and Nayatel (502), Helix (tunnel failure) and Cybernet (timeout) could not be read, and GoDaddy's Pakistan site returned 403. No Pakistani storefront could be ranked. The 18% is the federal sales tax rate; services are taxed by the provinces at their own rates.
Ordered by the standing .pk 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 18% 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 .pk price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
PPKNIC (registry)The registry prints Rs. 2100 per year (charged two years at a time) but states no sales tax treatment on the page read.
DDOMAIN HOSTThe page prints .pk only as a two-year price (Rs.2500 for 2 Years) and states no tax treatment; no yearly figure is printed.
Not read on 2026-09-29: creativeON (HTTP 404 on the listed website. Nothing read.); HOST n DOMAIN (HTTP 405 on the listed website. Nothing read.); WinsHosting (HTTP 502 upstream request failed. Nothing read.); Nayatel (HTTP 502 upstream request failed. Nothing read.); Helix (The connection through the proxy failed (tunnel connection failed). Nothing read.); Cybernet (The page did not load within 45 seconds on two attempts. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in Pakistan
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in Pakistan.
No registrar we track is recorded as selling .pk at all, so the namespace condition fails before language or currency is reached.
For .pk 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 Pakistan: 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. PKNIC publishes separate annual fees for registrants inside Pakistan and for registrants or registrars located outside it, so foreign registration is expressly contemplated. All new names must sit under one of the defined second or third levels.
DNSSEC: Not signed at the root: no registrar can offer DNSSEC validation for this ccTLD, whatever it advertises.
IDN: .پاکستان (punycode .xn--mgbai9azgqp6j) is delegated separately as Pakistan's Urdu-script ccTLD.
PKNIC operates the registry, the DNS for the .pk root servers and the registration system itself. Names already in use by other organisations, or reserved for technical, ethical or national reasons, are refused.
Purpose: Pakistan's country code, administered directly by PKNIC.
Eligibility: Open to registrants outside Pakistan, at a separately published fee level. All new names must fall under a defined second or third level rather than being registered at the top of the namespace.
Tracked registrars that sell .pk
None of the registrars we track sell .pk at retail: see the local registrar list below.
PKNIC operates the registry, the .pk root-server DNS and the registration system. The delegation has no DS record in the root, so DNSSEC validation is unavailable regardless of registrar. Names conflicting with existing organisations, or reserved on technical, ethical or national grounds, are refused.
.com.pk
Last checked 2026-08-19
Purpose: Commercial third level, the standard Pakistani business identity.
Eligibility: One of the defined levels under PKNIC's domain structure; same registration route as .pk.
Tracked registrars that sell .com.pk
None of the registrars we track sell .com.pk at retail: see the local registrar list below.
Not sold by any registrar we track. PKNIC is the registration point.
Namespace map
What you can register under .pk
The Public Suffix List records 15 registrable namespaces under .pk.
Registrable namespaces under .pk 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
.ac.pk
.biz.pk
.com.pk
.edu.pk
.fam.pk
.gkp.pk
.gob.pk
.gog.pk
.gok.pk
.gop.pk
.gos.pk
.gov.pk
.net.pk
.org.pk
.web.pk
Operator: PKNIC · .pk not 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.
.پاکستان.xn--mgbai9azgqp6jNational Telecommunication Corporationsigned 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 PKR.
Can a registrar we track handle Pakistan?
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.
Pakistan ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.pk
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
.com.pk
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 Pakistan compare. We list 33 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 Pakistani Rupee (PKR), 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 Pakistan?+
Of the 10 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, none printed a .pk price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. PKNIC accredits 33 registrars to sell .pk; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .pk in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Pakistan, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .pk domain?+
No. PKNIC publishes separate annual fees for registrants inside Pakistan and for registrants or registrars located outside it, so foreign registration is expressly contemplated. All new names must sit under one of the defined second or third levels.
Which global registrars sell .pk?+
None of the registrars we track sell .pk at retail. PKNIC operates the registry, the .pk root-server DNS and the registration system. The delegation has no DS record in the root, so DNSSEC validation is unavailable regardless of registrar. Names conflicting with existing organisations, or reserved on technical, ethical or national grounds, are refused.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in Pakistan?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Pakistani Rupee (PKR). PKNIC bills Pakistani registrants in rupees and non-Pakistani registrants in USD at a separately published rate. Global registrars bill in USD for gTLDs; Pakistani cards face international spending limits at many banks.
What payment methods work in Pakistan?+
PKNIC bills Pakistani registrants in rupees and non-Pakistani registrants in USD at a separately published rate. Global registrars bill in USD for gTLDs; Pakistani cards face international spending limits at many banks.
