Get your .pk domain straight from PKNIC itself

$8.50 per year, and PKNIC requires a minimum term of two years — so the first payment is $17.00 covering two full years. That isn't our rule or a bundling trick; the registry does not sell a one-year .pk. Renewals are the same $8.50 a year, with no increase after the first term.

Because PKNIC, the official registry, sets it that way for every .pk domain regardless of who you register through. Any registrar quoting you a one-year .pk price is either showing you half the real cost or is not actually able to register it. We would rather show the true $17.00 up front than surprise you at checkout.

No. Query the public WHOIS at PKNIC and you get back whether the domain is taken, when it was created, when it expires, and which nameservers it uses. No registrant name. No address, phone number or email either. That is unusual, and it falls your way: with most extensions you either swallow having your details published or you pay a privacy service to hide them. On a .pk there is nothing on show and nothing more to buy.

No. PKNIC sets no local-presence rule at all, which leaves you free to register a .pk or a .com.pk from wherever you happen to live. Diaspora businesses pick it often, so do exporters, and so does anybody selling into the Pakistani market from outside the country.

Every search hits the live WHOIS at PKNIC as you type, so the answer you see is current rather than something cached from last week. The registration part still passes through our team instead of running fully automated, which is why you should allow up to one business day before the domain shows up in your account. An email arrives the moment it goes live. We say this plainly because promising an instant same-day domain would set an expectation we could not meet.

Yes, but the registry runs the process by hand rather than the automatic auth-code transfer you might know from .com. Open a ticket, give us the domain name, and we will spell out exactly what PKNIC wants from you and then file it ourselves. Moving one across costs you nothing.

Running a business? .com.pk is the conventional pick and the one Pakistanis recognise fastest. Plain .pk is shorter and open to everybody, which makes it a decent fit for a brand or a personal site when the name you want happens to be free. Non-profits and associations tend towards .org.pk, while .net.pk points at network operators. Price is identical across all four, and so is the two-year minimum.

Card only, and the card has to be cleared for international transactions. Being blunt about it: PayPal does not run for consumers in Pakistan, and we still cannot take JazzCash, Easypaisa or a local bank transfer. Should none of that suit you, better to find out here than to hit the wall at checkout with a domain already chosen.