South Korea uses .kr, .co.kr, 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, Halfdomain prints the lowest standing .kr price: KRW 16,500 incl. VAT; KRW 15,500 first year, then Mailplug at KRW 19,800 incl. VAT, computed from KRW 18,000 ex. VAT; KRW 13,500 first year. KISA accredits 15 registrars to sell .kr; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .kr in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in South Korea, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency), KRNIC
These 15 companies are accredited by the South Korea registry to sell .kr, .한국. 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 KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency), KRNIC, 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 15 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 Korean site, bill in KRW and sell .kr?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in South Korea 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 Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean 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 French and English and Spanish storefronts were read and Korean 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 and French and Spanish and Portuguese and Turkish and Ukrainian and Italian and Hungarian and Polish and Czech and Slovak and Croatian and Greek and Indonesian and Swedish and Danish and Finnish storefronts were read and Korean 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; KRW has not been established either way.
The German and English and Italian storefronts were read and Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean 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 French and Dutch and German and English and Spanish and Portuguese and Italian and Polish storefronts were read and Korean 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 Korean was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
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 .kr: KISA-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
Nine of the 15 registrars on KISA's English .kr registrar page were opened in a real browser. Doregi, Halfdomain and Mailplug print a .kr price in won with its VAT treatment; Gabia prints a VAT-inclusive figure not tied to .kr, Hosting.kr, Whois and iNames showed no .kr price on the pages reached, and Dotname (403 bot check) and Asadal (plain-http redirect) could not be read. .kr and .co.kr are priced the same on every page that prices both.
Ordered by the standing .kr 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 10% 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 .kr 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 10% 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 .kr price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
GGabiaThe page read prints one registration figure (26,400원, 부가세 포함) not tied to .kr; no .kr price is printed.
HHosting.krNot read: the price address returned 404 and the search page timed out.
Not read on 2026-09-29: Dotname (HTTP 403 with a "잠시만 기다리십시오" bot-check page. Nothing read.); Asadal (HTTP 405: the site redirects to plain http, which the browser could not follow. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in South Korea
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in South Korea.
Gandi sells .kr, but none of them has been established to bill in KRW or to run a Korean-language storefront. Where we have simply not checked, the table above says so rather than counting it against them.
For .kr 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 KRW; does not sell .kr; no Korean-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 South Korea: 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 KRW and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
Registered through KISA/KRNIC-accredited registrars.
Namespace map
What you can register under .kr
The Public Suffix List records 33 registrable namespaces under .kr.
Registrable namespaces under .kr 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.kr
.ai.kr
.busan.kr
.chungbuk.kr
.chungnam.kr
.co.kr
.daegu.kr
.daejeon.kr
.es.kr
.gangwon.kr
.go.kr
.gwangju.kr
.gyeongbuk.kr
.gyeonggi.kr
.gyeongnam.kr
.hs.kr
.incheon.kr
.io.kr
.it.kr
.jeju.kr
.jeonbuk.kr
.jeonnam.kr
.kg.kr
.me.kr
.mil.kr
.ms.kr
.ne.kr
.or.kr
.pe.kr
.re.kr
.sc.kr
.seoul.kr
.ulsan.kr
Operator: Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) · .kr 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.
.한국.xn--3e0b707eKISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency)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 KRW.
Can a registrar we track handle South Korea?
.kr is sold by 1 of the registrars whose prices we verify, renewing from $143.98: more than the cheapest verified .com at $10.18.
At $143.98 a year, .kr is 293rd of 295 by price among the extensions we verify: $133.80 more than the cheapest verified .com. The local extension is a premium here, not a saving.
South Korea ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.kr
1
$143.98
+$133.80
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 South Korea compare. We list 15 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 South Korean Won (KRW), 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 South Korea?+
Of the 9 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, Halfdomain prints the lowest standing .kr price: KRW 16,500 incl. VAT; KRW 15,500 first year, then Mailplug at KRW 19,800 incl. VAT, computed from KRW 18,000 ex. VAT; KRW 13,500 first year. KISA accredits 15 registrars to sell .kr; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .kr in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in South Korea, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .kr domain?+
Direct .kr is open to anyone; some second levels (e.g. .co.kr) may require a Korean presence.
Which global registrars sell .kr?+
Gandi. Registered through KISA/KRNIC-accredited registrars.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in South Korea?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in South Korean Won (KRW). Local KISA / KRNIC registrars bill in KRW. A .com bought at Porkbun, Cloudflare, or Namecheap is billed in USD.
What payment methods work in South Korea?+
Local KISA / KRNIC registrars bill in KRW. A .com bought at Porkbun, Cloudflare, or Namecheap is billed in USD.
