.online

Register an .online domain

Run by Radix and in the root zone since March 2015, open to anyone with no eligibility test. It accepts labels in ten scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Lao.

Extension type: Generic (gTLD)
Who can register: Open to anyone
Registry: Radix Technologies Inc. SEZC
Renews at: On request

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Before you register .online

What the price includes: Every .online 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 .online name does lapse, restoring it costs considerably more than renewing it would have — the restore price is in the table above.
Transfers: Transferring .online 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, anywhere, with no local presence

Registry: Radix Technologies Inc. SEZC, Cayman Islands, with technical registry operations run by Tucows.com, Co..

There is no eligibility test. Radix imposes registrant conditions only during launch phases, where a Sunrise application had to be backed by a trademark validated through the Trademark Clearinghouse. That phase closed years ago.
No residency, company registration or trustee service is involved, and no approval step delays the registration. If the name is free it is yours when the order completes.
Internationalised labels are genuinely supported: IANA's Practices Repository holds ten .online IDN tables covering Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lao, Thai and Chinese, so a non-Latin brand can register the name it actually trades under.
The surprise to know about: Radix reserves a set of names as premium and places them in their own price categories with custom registration and renewal fees. A premium name registers like any other, but it renews at its premium price every year.

The buyer .online actually suits

The honest case for .online is not that it is modern. It is that the word completes a sentence. A descriptive brand followed by .online tells a visitor what the address is for, which is why it does well for shops, marketplaces and services whose whole proposition is being reachable without a branch or a shop front. If your first choice is a dictionary word, this is one of the few extensions where the second choice does not read as a compromise.

It suits a second audience too, and this one is less discussed. Because Radix has registered ten IDN tables for the extension, a business trading in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic or a CJK script can register the label it actually uses in market rather than a transliteration. Radix publishes over 3.5 million .online domains under management, and the extension is distributed through most large registrars, so the name you buy sits in a market that is liquid if you ever sell it.

Registry, ownership and the pricing structure behind it

IANA names the sponsoring organisation as Radix Technologies Inc. SEZC in the Cayman Islands. That has moved twice: the extension was delegated to DotOnline Inc. in March 2015, transferred to Radix FZC in August 2021 and to the present entity in February 2024. Technical operations sit with Tucows, whose nameservers serve the zone. None of this changes anything for a registrant, but it does explain why older reference pages name a registry that no longer exists.

What does affect you is Radix's premium structure. Its policies reserve names and put them into price categories with custom registration and renewal fees set at the registry's discretion, and the base registry agreement permits that non-uniform renewal pricing where it was disclosed at registration. This is exactly the case where a first-year headline price hides a permanent renewal, so we show registration, renewal, transfer and restore together for the exact name you searched. As an Openprovider reseller we pass the registry's categories through; we do not set them.

Terms and lifecycle

What holding a .online actually commits you to

Term: One to ten years in whole-year increments, the range ICANN's base registry agreement obliges every gTLD registry to offer registrars. A renewal can never carry the registration more than ten years past the date of the renewal itself.
If you miss the renewal: Expiry does not delete the name immediately. It stays renewable for a window we set, which ICANN's deletion policy caps at 45 days, and the site is taken out of DNS for at least the last 8 days of that window. Deletion then starts a 30-day redemption period in which only you can restore it, at the restore fee shown above rather than a renewal price, followed by 5 days of pending delete.
Transfer: Transfers need the auth code from your existing registrar and the losing registrar's confirmation. The 60-day locks after registration, after a previous transfer, and after an unopted-out change of registrant are ICANN consensus policy applying to every gTLD, not a Radix rule. The revision approved by the GNSO Council in March 2025 shortens them to 720 hours but was still in implementation as of August 2026.
Registrant data and disputes: Registrations are subject to UDRP and URS like any gTLD, and Radix runs its own abuse and anti-abuse policy under which it can suspend a name, with a published unsuspension request route. Its Sunrise dispute procedure is administered by the National Arbitration Forum.
DNSSEC: The .online zone is signed and its DS record is published in the root, so DNSSEC can be switched on for the name. The zone is served from Tucows' registry nameservers, which also serve .site and .cloud.

Fit

Who .online is for

When the common-word .com has gone
For a generic or descriptive brand the .com went twenty years ago and the aftermarket price is a business decision of its own. Brand plus .online reads as a finished phrase rather than an abbreviation, which is more than most alternatives manage.
Non-Latin script markets
Ten registered IDN tables mean an Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew or CJK brand can hold its own name in its own script. Few new gTLDs support that breadth, and for a business trading across scripts it removes a transliteration nobody in the market uses.
Not for trust-critical services
If customers verify your address before entering credentials or payment details, a bank, insurer or health service is better served by a ccTLD or the .com. .online carries a large share of short-lived campaign sites, and that association is not one you can outrun with copy.

Check the .com before you decide

Most .online buyers arrive because a .com was taken, and it is worth confirming that before you commit. Search the .com on our page for it, with registration, renewal and restore pricing shown the same way.

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Frequently asked questions

Is .online restricted in any way?

No. Radix applies no residency, trademark or industry test to a standard registration. The only eligibility conditions in its policies belong to the launch phases in 2015, when Sunrise applications had to be backed by a mark validated through the Trademark Clearinghouse.

Can I register an .online domain in Arabic or Cyrillic?

Yes. IANA's IDN Practices Repository lists ten .online tables, covering Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lao, Thai and Chinese. The name is stored as an xn-- label and works in any current browser.

What happens if my .online domain expires?

It remains renewable for up to 45 days under ICANN's deletion policy, with DNS interrupted for at least the last 8 days, so the site stops resolving before the name is lost. After deletion there is a 30-day redemption period in which only you can restore it at the restore fee shown above, then 5 days of pending delete before it is released.

How long does a transfer to you take, and what do I need?

You need the auth code from your current registrar and the domain must not be inside a 60-day ICANN lock from a recent registration, transfer or registrant change. Once started, the losing registrar has a five-day window in which the transfer is confirmed or explicitly approved, so most complete inside a week.

Should I take .online or hold out for the .com?

If the .com is available and affordable, take it, and keep .online as the defensive registration. .online earns its place when the .com is held by someone else, when your market reads a non-Latin script, or when the descriptive phrase genuinely explains the business better than an abbreviation would.