.io domain registration: price and renewal
.io domain registration at Registrar Domains: €97.49 the first year, €65.49 a year to renew, before VAT. .io is the extension of the British Indian Ocean Territory, run by Internet Computer Bureau. Anyone can register one. Renewal is manual: we email you 30 and 7 days before expiry.
Live price on 21 October 2026, the one the search and checkout charge. Prices in EUR before VAT.
.io at a glance
- First year
- €97.49 before VAT
- Renewal
- €65.49 a year, before VAT
- Minimum term
- 1 year, up to 10 years in one order
- Who can register
- Anyone, anywhere: you do not need to live in the British Indian Ocean Territory. Source
- Registry
- Internet Computer Bureau Limited. IANA record
- At expiry
- After expiry it stops working, and you can still renew it at the normal price for 44 days; then it can be restored for 28 days, for the renewal plus a restore fee. After that, the .io name is deleted and anyone can register it.
- Transfer lock
- Transfers in and out are allowed. Lock and unlock in the dashboard where the registry offers a lock.
- DNSSEC
- Supported, on by default on our nameservers.
- Typical use
- Popular with software products and developer tools.
Registry facts read on 17 October 2026. Term and expiry periods come from our registrar's catalogue.
.io renewal prices at 12 registrars
We renew .io at €65.49, place 6 of 10 among registrars that publish a renewal price. Competitor prices read on 14 October 2026 from each registrar's public page; EUR before VAT.
| Registrar | Renewal | First year | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registrar Domains | €65.49 | €97.49 | Registrar cost + 30 %, never less than cost + 2 EUR |
| Cloudflare | €44.66 | €28.58 | struck 50.00 |
| Porkbun | €46.27 | €25.12 | first-year sale |
| Infomaniak | €52.10 | €49.90 | |
| OVHcloud | €59.79 | €30.99 | promotion until 2026-12-31 |
| Gandi | €64.99 | €28.99 | struck 64.80 |
| Hostinger | €65.99 | €27.99 | |
| Namecheap | €67.87 | €31.25 | sale, struck 65.98 |
| Name.com | €71.45 | €48.23 | sale, struck 79.99 |
| IONOS | €81.00 | €40.99 | new customers |
| GoDaddy | not published | €0.01 | new customers, 3-year term required; struck 74.99 |
| Squarespace | not published | €54.00 |
Each registrar name links to the page the price was read from. Method and every extension on the full comparison; raw data at /compare.json.
Questions about .io
How much does a .io domain cost?
€97.49 for the first year and €65.49 for each renewal year, in euros before VAT. VAT is added at payment where it applies. Our price is our registrar's cost plus 30 %, never less than cost plus 2 EUR.
Who can register a .io domain?
Anyone, anywhere: you do not need to live in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
What happens when a .io domain expires?
After expiry it stops working, and you can still renew it at the normal price for 44 days; then it can be restored for 28 days, for the renewal plus a restore fee. After that, the .io name is deleted and anyone can register it. We email the owner 30 and 7 days before expiry, and the domain can be renewed from the dashboard or by an agent at any time before.
Can I transfer a .io domain to another registrar?
Yes. Get its transfer code from the dashboard or with the get_auth_code tool, and give it to the new registrar. When an agent asks for the code, the owner confirms it from an email and sees the code on that page; the agent never gets it. Where the registry has a transfer lock, unlock the domain first.
How are disputes over a .io name settled?
Disputes go through the .IO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, a variant of the UDRP, at WIPO.
Register .io from an AI agent
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