.li

Register a .li domain

Liechtenstein's country code. Switch runs the register, as it does for .ch, but on behalf of the Principality's Office for Communications and under Liechtenstein law. Open to holders anywhere, with no local presence test.

Extension type: Country-code (ccTLD)
Who can register: Open to anyone
Registry: Switch
Renews at: CHF 9.00 / year

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.li pricing

.li prices by registration term
Term	1 year
Registration For a name nobody currently holds.	CHF 22.00
Renewal Every term after that. This is the number that matters most, so it sits on the same screen as the first one.	CHF 9.00
Transfer in Moving an existing name to us. Adds a year to the term rather than restarting it.	Not offered
Restore Recovering a name after it lapsed into redemption. Shown deliberately: it is the expensive one.	CHF 50.00

Each figure is the total for that whole term, resolved live from the same pricing engine that charges your cart, so this page cannot advertise an amount checkout will not honour. Only the terms this registry actually sells are shown; an em-dash means that term is not on offer. A crossed-out price is a standing price a running promotion undercuts. Premium names are priced individually — search the exact name to see its own quote.

Before you register .li

What the price includes: Every .li 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 .li name does lapse, restoring it costs considerably more than renewing it would have — the restore price is in the table above.
Transfers: Transferring .li 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.

Eligibility

Open to anyone, under Liechtenstein law

Registry: Switch, on behalf of the Office for Communications (Amt für Kommunikation) of the Principality of Liechtenstein.

No Liechtenstein residence, domicile or company entry is required, and no trustee service exists or is needed. The ordinance is explicit that the registry does not examine whether an applicant is entitled to the name it is asking for; disputes about that belong to the civil courts.
Sovereignty over the extension sits with the Principality. Switch operates the register on a mandate from the Office for Communications, and the rules are Liechtenstein's Communications Act of 2023 and the .li Domain Name Ordinance in force since 1 February 2025, not the Swiss ordinance that governs .ch.
One real condition applies after registration rather than before it: if a .li name is blocked or its traffic redirected because the registry suspects unlawful use, the holder can be required to identify themselves and to designate a delivery address or authorised recipient inside Liechtenstein within 30 days. Missing that deadline means the allocation is revoked.
A short list of names is simply unavailable. The Annex to the ordinance reserves the municipalities, including balzers.li, vaduz.li and mauren.li, along with liechtenstein.li and the princely designations such as fuerst-alois.li, for the bodies they belong to.

Same registry, different country, different rules

Switch has operated the .li register since 1993 and also runs .ch, which is why the two extensions share an operator, a lookup service and one set of general terms. It does not make .li a Swiss domain. The Principality of Liechtenstein holds sovereignty over the extension, the Office for Communications is the regulator, and the current mandate to Switch dates from 2012. The law that governs a .li name is the Communications Act of 2023 and the .li Domain Name Ordinance that came into force on 1 February 2025 as part of Liechtenstein's adoption of the European electronic communications framework.

For a buyer, that means the shared lifecycle is genuinely shared, but the authority you would ever have to deal with is not. A refusal to allocate a .li name is notified through your registrar, normally within 14 days, and if you want it reviewed the Office for Communications will decide the question by formal order provided you ask within 30 days of the refusal. There is no equivalent route in .ch, where the Swiss ordinance and OFCOM govern instead. The same split runs through blocking, revocation and provisional measures: the mechanics look familiar, the decision-maker is Liechtenstein's.

What the ordinance asks of a holder

Registration itself is undemanding. Applications go through a registrar, allocation is first come first served and normally happens well inside the fourteen days the ordinance allows, and Switch does not check whether you are entitled to the name. The obligations start once you hold it. Your details must stay current, complete and correct, and Switch may revoke a name if messages to the holder bounce or the holder can only be identified at disproportionate effort. If the registry cannot reach an applicant with a query and gets no reply within ten days, it may refuse the allocation outright.

The clause worth knowing before you buy is the one nobody expects a small country to have. Where a .li name is technically blocked or its traffic redirected on a reasoned suspicion of unlawful use, the registry can require the holder to prove their identity and to name a delivery address or authorised recipient inside Liechtenstein within 30 days, and revokes the allocation if that does not happen. It is aimed at abuse rather than at ordinary businesses, and it is not a local-presence requirement at registration. We are a reseller, so we cannot answer such a request for you, but we can keep the holder record accurate enough that one never arrives and pass registry correspondence on the day it lands.

Terms and lifecycle

What holding a .li actually commits you to

Term and renewal: At the registry a .li registration runs for an unlimited period and ends only on deletion or transfer, under clause 2.4 of Switch's general terms. There is no registry expiry date. What we bill is an annual cycle against that open-ended registration, and Openprovider registers .li in one-year periods.
If you miss the renewal: A deleted .li name is not immediately free. Switch's terms give it a 40-day transition period during which no third party can register it and the previous holder's registrar can take it back, and Switch's 2025 registry report counts 1,198 .li names reactivated inside exactly that window. The ordinance itself puts the figure at 30 days, so treat 30 as the deadline you plan to, and note that recovery costs the restore price shown above rather than a renewal.
Transfer between registrars: Transfers use an authorisation code from your current registrar and complete in real time. ICANN's 60-day post-registration lock is a gTLD rule and does not apply, so a newly registered .li can move at once. There is one lock of the registry's own: a name is barred from transfer for 60 days after a previous transfer, and the registry will lift it on request. Do not expect a confirmation email afterwards, because the registry does not send one.
Registrant record and name rules: The ordinance requires current, complete and correct holder details, including a delivery address and email, and Switch may revoke a name whose holder can only be identified with disproportionate effort. A .li name must be 3 to 63 characters. The Annex permits accented Latin characters, so umlauts are lawful, but Openprovider records .li as neither an IDN nor a DNSSEC extension on its platform while the registry itself supports DNSSEC and CDS, so ask us to confirm either before you plan around it.
Disputes: Switch operates a dispute resolution service for .ch and .li under Article 11 of the ordinance, staffed by experts who rule on whether an allocation was lawful. It is not ICANN's UDRP and the decisions can be taken to the ordinary courts. The registry deliberately does not judge who has the better right to a name, either at registration or afterwards.

Fit

Who .li is for

Businesses actually in Liechtenstein
For a company in Vaduz, Schaan or Balzers, .li is the address customers and counterparties expect, and it distinguishes a Liechtenstein entity from a Swiss one in a market where that distinction carries legal weight.
Cross-border firms on the Rhine
Plenty of businesses trade on both sides of the river. Holding .li beside .ch signals a real Liechtenstein presence rather than a Swiss company with a mailbox, and the register is small enough that good names are still free.
Not a cheaper .ch, and not a domain hack
Switch counted 70,496 .li names at the end of 2025 against 2,580,972 .ch names. If the market is Switzerland, .ch is the buy and .li will not inherit that traffic. And unlike .io or .co, .li is a live national register with its own regulator, so a name bought purely as a word ending sits under rules written for Liechtenstein.

The other half of the pair

Almost every business that holds a .li also holds the .ch, because the customers, the banks and the search results sit on both sides of the border. Same registry, same lookup, different rulebook.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be in Liechtenstein to register a .li domain?

No. There is no residence, domicile or company requirement and no trustee service to buy. The only domestic-contact obligation is conditional: if the registry blocks a name on suspicion of unlawful use, it can require the holder to identify themselves and designate a delivery address or authorised recipient in Liechtenstein within 30 days.

Is .li just a Swiss domain with a different ending?

No. Switch operates both registers, but .li belongs to the Principality of Liechtenstein and is governed by its Communications Act and by the .li Domain Name Ordinance in force since 1 February 2025. The regulator is the Office for Communications, not OFCOM, and a refusal to allocate a .li name can be put before that office for a formal decision within 30 days.

What happens if I stop paying for a .li domain?

The name is deleted and enters a transition period during which nobody else can register it and your registrar can take it back for you. Switch's terms and its 2025 registry report both describe that period as 40 days, while the Liechtenstein ordinance sets it at 30, so plan on acting within 30 days. Recovery is charged at the restore price shown above.

Can I transfer a .li domain to you straight away?

Usually yes. There is no ICANN-style 60-day lock after registration, so ask your current registrar for the authorisation code and we can start immediately. The one exception is a name that has itself been transferred in the last 60 days: the registry locks those, and it will lift the lock on request.

How many .li domains are there?

Switch reported 70,496 .li names in its 2025 registry report, against 2,580,972 .ch names, with about 10,700 new .li registrations during the year. It is a small register by design rather than a neglected one, which is the practical reason short and obvious .li names are still available.