.com domain name registration information

Register .com domain name

Domain name:

Restrictions

Min. length: 3
Max. length: 63
Numbers: allowed (full numeric)
Hyphen: allowed (middle only)

.com domain name price

Setup / creation:

$ 0.00

Annual fee:

$ 23.89
Update: $ 0.00

Domain name transfer:

$ 23.89
Trade: $ 0.00

.com registration period

Subscription period: 1 year
Subscription increment: 1 year
Renewal period: 1 year
Renewal increment: 1 year
Registration delay: 24/48 hours

.com domain registry information

Zone: Generic
IDN: Yes
Restrictions: Yes

Facts

Introduced: 1985
Registry: Verisign-gTlds
Registration agreement: not available
Dispute resolution policy: not available

Conditions to register a domain in Generic

No restrictions

.com domain register

.com (commercial) is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used on the Internet's Domain Name System. It was one of the original top-level domains (TLDs), established in January 1985, and has grown to be the largest TLD in use. It was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense.

Although .com domains are officially intended to designate commercial entities (others such as government agencies or educational institutions have different top-level domains assigned to them), there has been no restriction on who can register .com domains since the mid-1990s. The opening of the .com registry to the public coincided with the commercialization and popularization of the Internet, and .com quickly became the most common top-level domain for websites. Many companies which flourished in the period between 1997-2001 (the time known as the "dot-com bubble") went so far as to incorporate .com into the company name; these became known as dot-coms or dot-com companies.

Since .COM enables you to protect your business online, a domain with .COM makes your web address unique and easy to memorize. A .COM extension is doing much more, helping you reach and communicate with the audience in the world.