.sk

Register a .sk domain

The Slovak extension, run by SK-NIC. Since the rules of 1 September 2017 it is no longer Slovak-only: a postal address anywhere in the EU, the EEA, EFTA or the United Kingdom qualifies, which includes Switzerland.

Extension type: Country-code (ccTLD)
Who can register: Eligibility rules apply
Registry: SK-NIC
Renews at: On request

Check a .sk name

.sk pricing

Live pricing is temporarily unavailable for .sk.

Live pricing is temporarily unavailable. Search the name you want, or ask us and we will quote it.

Before you register .sk

What the price includes: Every .sk amount on this page is resolved by the same pricing engine that charges your cart, at the moment the page is built. There is no separate ICANN fee, agency fee or surcharge added later — the figure you see is the figure you pay, in the currency shown.
Premium and reserved names: Some names are classed as premium by the registry and priced individually, usually at the premium rate every year rather than only the first. Search the exact name to see its own quote. If a name's premium status or price changes between your quote and your purchase, the quote is invalidated rather than quietly repriced.
Renewal is not automatic unless you switch it on: Auto-renew is off unless you enable it, and enabling it sets a flag at the registry rather than scheduling a charge here. We email the registrant address before a name expires, so keep a monitored address on the record. If a .sk name does lapse, restoring it costs considerably more than renewing it would have — the restore price is in the table above.
Transfers: Transferring .sk to us needs the AuthInfo (EPP) code from your current registrar, which they are obliged to give you on request. Where the registry operates a waiting period before a name may move — ICANN imposes one on generic extensions — it is set out in the facts above. That is registry policy, not ours, and we cannot waive it.
Who may register: .sk is a restricted extension. The registry's eligibility rules are set out above and are checked by the registry, not by us — a registration that does not qualify is refused or later cancelled by them, and we refund what we can rather than what we would like to.

Restricted extension

A postal address in the EU, EEA, EFTA or the UK is required

Registry: SK-NIC, a.s..

SK-NIC requires the holder to have a postal address in an EU member state, a European Economic Area state, an EFTA member state or the United Kingdom. Switzerland qualifies through EFTA, so Swiss companies register directly.
It must be a real address at which the holder can receive mail, not a post box. Until the rules that took effect on 1 September 2017, .sk was in practice reserved for Slovak holders and foreign buyers used proxy holders; that route is now closed and the beneficial holder must be named.
Holders without a qualifying address can use the local-presence service Openprovider offers for .sk. It supplies the address the registry requires and nothing more.
The second level .org.sk is a separate case: it is open only to Slovak-seated non-profits such as civic associations, foundations and non-investment funds.

The restriction that was lifted, and the one that remains

SK-NIC, a.s. has operated .sk since the 1990s and for most of that time the extension had a reputation as a closed one: registration was effectively limited to Slovak holders, and foreign businesses got in through proxy holders who appeared on the record in place of the real owner. The rules that came into force on 1 September 2017 rebuilt the registry around a different premise. The holder shown on the record must be the actual holder, and eligibility became a question of address rather than nationality.

What SK-NIC asks for today is a postal address in an EU member state, an EEA state, an EFTA member state or the United Kingdom, at which the holder can genuinely be reached. For a Swiss company that is decisive: Switzerland is an EFTA member, so a Swiss holder is eligible on its own footing with no trustee and no Slovak entity. Holders outside that group are not shut out either, but they need the local-presence service Openprovider offers, and we would rather tell you that before the order than after it.

How a .sk name ends, and the transfer rule that costs a year

The .sk lifecycle has no soft landing. When a registration is not renewed the name leaves the zone immediately and enters a Redemption Grace Period of 40 days, during which the site and mail are already down but the name can still be renewed or restored. At the end of the 40 days it is deleted and returns to general availability. SK-NIC published a revised life cycle on 16 July 2026, due to start in autumn 2026, that adds an auction phase of at least three days after redemption and a pending delete stage of up to 24 hours, so a name released from the registry will pass through bidding rather than straight back to first come, first served.

One SK-NIC rule has a direct cost and is easy to miss: changing registrar extends the registration by at least one year, unless the name is already booked out to the full ten years. A transfer is therefore never a like-for-like move of an existing expiry date, and a name transferred a month after it was renewed still buys another year. The compensating advantage is that a registrar change is allowed during the Redemption Grace Period, so a lapsed .sk name held at an unresponsive registrar can be moved to us and brought back inside the 40 days.

Terms and lifecycle

What holding a .sk actually commits you to

Term: One to ten years, counted cumulatively: SK-NIC will not let the registration run more than ten years ahead at any point. Renewals are in whole years.
If you miss the renewal: The name leaves the zone and stops resolving, then sits in a 40-day Redemption Grace Period during which it can be renewed or restored. At the end of the 40 days it is deleted and becomes available again. There is no gTLD-style stage in which the site keeps working after expiry.
Transfer: A registrar change uses an AuthInfo code that only your current registrar can see and must give you. SK-NIC specifies it as 16 to 48 characters mixing upper and lower case letters, digits and special characters, and a fresh one is pre-generated after the move. A registrar change is also permitted during the Redemption Grace Period.
Renewal on transfer: This one surprises people: on a registrar change the incoming registrar must extend the registration by at least one year, unless the name already runs the full ten years ahead or the incoming registrar is SK-NIC itself. Moving a .sk name is therefore also a renewal, and should be planned as one.
Auction phase from 2026: SK-NIC published a revised life cycle on 16 July 2026, due to start in autumn 2026, which inserts an auction phase of at least three days between the 40-day redemption period and a pending delete stage of up to 24 hours. Until it goes live, a name is released for registration at the end of the 40 days. Disputes run under SK-NIC's ADR Rules, in force since 1 September 2020, before the arbitration centre that coordinates .sk domain experts.

Fit

Who .sk is for

Trading in Slovakia
Slovak customers and business registers expect .sk. It is also the extension that reads as local to a Slovak audience in a way a regional .eu does not.
Austrian and Swiss firms working Bratislava
Bratislava sits an hour from Vienna and plenty of DACH businesses serve Slovakia from there. An EFTA or EU address already satisfies the registry, so no local entity is needed.
Not for holders outside the EU, EEA, EFTA or UK
A US or Asian holder needs a local-presence service, and the 40-day redemption period is unforgiving of a name that lapses while nobody is watching. If Slovakia is a small part of the picture, .eu or .com carries less administration.

The market on the other side of the Danube

Slovak operations are usually run alongside Austrian ones, and the two registries work differently enough that it is worth reading the .at rules rather than assuming they match SK-NIC's.

View .at domains

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be in Slovakia to register a .sk domain?

No, not since the rules that took effect on 1 September 2017. SK-NIC requires a postal address in an EU member state, an EEA state, an EFTA member state or the United Kingdom. Switzerland qualifies as an EFTA member, so Swiss holders register directly.

Can a company outside Europe hold a .sk domain?

Only with a local-presence service. Openprovider, the registrar platform we register through, offers one for .sk that supplies the qualifying address. Ask us first, because it changes what appears on the holder record.

What happens if I miss a .sk renewal?

The name is removed from the zone straight away and enters a 40-day Redemption Grace Period. It can be renewed or restored during those 40 days, and a change of registrar is also permitted. After that it is deleted and released.

Why did my transfer add a year to the registration?

Because SK-NIC requires it. On a registrar change the incoming registrar must extend the registration by at least one year, unless the name already runs ten years ahead or the incoming registrar is SK-NIC. It is a registry rule, not a registrar charge.

Who decides .sk domain disputes?

Not UDRP. SK-NIC operates its own alternative dispute resolution under ADR Rules in force since 1 September 2020, with cases decided by experts coordinated through the arbitration centre for .sk domain disputes.