United States uses .us, which requires a local presence to register. 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.
Porkbun, Dynadot, Hover and IONOS are the registrars this site tracks that meet all three local conditions in the United States: a storefront in an official language, billing in USD, and .us for sale. Of the 12 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, Dynadot prints the lowest standing .us price: $6.96 a year as printed; $4.30 first year, then Porkbun at $7.00 a year as printed; $4.43 first year. The .US registry's own list of accredited registrars could not be read, so sellers are recorded from their own pages.
Notable local registrars in United States
These are well-known United States-based registrars commonly used by local buyers. They are not scored in our methodology, and we have not confirmed their accreditation against the registry’s own list, so they are named rather than compared.
Network Solutions
Hover (Tucows)
Name.com (Identity Digital)
Register.com
Tucows
Which registrars have a English site, bill in USD and sell .us?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in United States rather than merely to the world from it: an interface in an official language, billing in the local currency, and selling the local namespace. All three must hold. 4 of the 20 registrars below meet all three.
Read billing in EUR and PKR and BRL and ARS and COP and TRY and INR and UAH and PLN and CZK and IDR and PHP and SEK and DKK; USD has not been established either way.
Offers USD in a currency selector, but whether the card is charged in USD or in USD after a conversion is not established. Thirteen currencies in the selector (AU$, R$, CA$, ¥, €, £, ₹, MX$, ₱, ﷼, ฿, ₺, USD $). Whether the card is charged in the selected currency is not established by the page, so none passes the currency 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 .us: sellers read from their own storefronts
The .US registry page that says it lists every accredited registrar rendered no names, so no list is held. Twelve storefronts of registrars that sell .us to US buyers were opened on 2026-09-29; Namecheap, GoDaddy, Network Solutions and Spaceship refused the read with bot walls or 403s. Porkbun, Dynadot and Hover print a standing .us price in dollars, and IONOS shows only an intro offer. Because the United States has no national VAT, a .us price printed in US dollars is comparable as printed, so Porkbun, Dynadot and Hover are ranked; state and local sales taxes, where a page mentions them, are not included in any figure.
Ordered by the standing .us 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 .us 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 .us price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
NNameSiloNo .us price was rendered on the pages read.
Not read on 2026-09-29: Namecheap (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); GoDaddy (HTTP 403 "Access Denied" on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); Network Solutions (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); Spaceship (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Operates a English-language storefront, which is an official language of United States. Bills in USD. Page states "All prices are in USD." ".COM from $11.08". No language switcher and no currency selector anywhere on the page. Sells .us, and we hold a sourced price for it.
Operates a English-language storefront, which is an official language of United States. Bills in USD. .us "Registration On Sale $6.96 $4.30 Renew $6.96"; "EN - USD ($)" Sells .us, and we hold a sourced price for it.
Operates a English-language storefront, which is an official language of United States. Bills in USD. "All pricing is per year and in USD." us $14.99 Sells .us, and we hold a sourced price for it.
Operates a English-language storefront, which is an official language of United States. Bills in USD. Page in English, no language switcher visible. Prices printed with "$", for example ".com Save 48% $20 $1 /year for 1 year". Sells .us, and we hold a sourced price for it.
Ordered by our overall score where a registrar carries one. A registrar we have not tested can meet all three local conditions and is listed for it, without a score and never above a scored one.
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: U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Local presence: Yes: registrants must have a verifiable U.S. presence (citizen, permanent resident, organization with bona fide U.S. presence, or foreign entity with regular activity in the U.S.).
DNSSEC: Signed at the root
IDN: Supported in selected languages
The .us nexus rule is set by NTIA policy; the registry verifies declared nexus categories.
Purpose: Geographic ccTLD for the United States (NTIA policy).
Eligibility: US Nexus required: registrant must be a US citizen or permanent resident, a US-formed entity, a foreign entity with a bona fide US presence, or an individual or organization with a regular non-commercial connection to the US.
Pricing fetched from each registrar's own pricing page on the date shown. Local registrars may bill in USD and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
Nexus declaration is collected at checkout and audited by GoDaddy Registry (the operator under NTIA). Squarespace Domains does not list .us at retail. Hover (via Tucows) sells .us and collects the Nexus declaration at checkout.
Namespace map
What you can register under .us
The Public Suffix List records 58 registrable namespaces under .us.
Registrable namespaces under .us 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
.ak.us
.al.us
.ar.us
.as.us
.az.us
.ca.us
.co.us
.ct.us
.dc.us
.de.us
.dni.us
.fl.us
.ga.us
.gu.us
.hi.us
.ia.us
.id.us
.il.us
.in.us
.isa.us
.ks.us
.ky.us
.la.us
.ma.us
.md.us
.me.us
.mi.us
.mn.us
.mo.us
.ms.us
.mt.us
.nc.us
.nd.us
.ne.us
.nh.us
.nj.us
.nm.us
.nsn.us
.nv.us
.ny.us
.oh.us
.ok.us
.or.us
.pa.us
.pr.us
.ri.us
.sc.us
.sd.us
.tn.us
.tx.us
.ut.us
.va.us
.vi.us
.vt.us
.wa.us
.wi.us
.wv.us
.wy.us
Operator: Registry Services, LLC · .us signed in the root zone (2026-09-28)
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 USD.
Can a registrar we track handle United States?
.us is sold by 10 of the registrars whose prices we verify, renewing from $6.48: less than the cheapest verified .com at $10.18.
At $6.48 a year, .us is 12th of 295 by price among the extensions we verify: $3.70 less than the cheapest verified .com. Registering locally costs less here than registering the default.
United States 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 the United States compare. We list 5 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 United States Dollar (USD), 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. the United States also applies a local-presence or nexus requirement to at least one of its ccTLDs: see the registry rules above before assuming eligibility.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in United States?+
Porkbun, Dynadot, Hover and IONOS are the registrars this site tracks that meet all three local conditions in the United States: a storefront in an official language, billing in USD, and .us for sale. Of the 12 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, Dynadot prints the lowest standing .us price: $6.96 a year as printed; $4.30 first year, then Porkbun at $7.00 a year as printed; $4.43 first year. The .US registry's own list of accredited registrars could not be read, so sellers are recorded from their own pages.
Do I need a local presence to register a .us domain?+
Yes: registrants must have a verifiable U.S. presence (citizen, permanent resident, organization with bona fide U.S. presence, or foreign entity with regular activity in the U.S.).
Which global registrars sell .us?+
Porkbun, Namecheap, Cloudflare Registrar, GoDaddy, Spaceship, Dynadot, Hover, NameSilo, Gandi, OVHcloud, Name.com, IONOS, AWS Route 53. Nexus declaration is collected at checkout and audited by GoDaddy Registry (the operator under NTIA). Squarespace Domains does not list .us at retail. Hover (via Tucows) sells .us and collects the Nexus declaration at checkout.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in United States?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in United States Dollar (USD). All tracked registrars bill in USD and accept major US-issued credit cards, debit cards, and PayPal. ACH and wire transfer are usually only available at enterprise tiers (Network Solutions, GoDaddy Corporate Domains).
What payment methods work in United States?+
All tracked registrars bill in USD and accept major US-issued credit cards, debit cards, and PayPal. ACH and wire transfer are usually only available at enterprise tiers (Network Solutions, GoDaddy Corporate Domains).
