.pk Registration
Your .pk name, registered from anywhere at all
Your name lands straight on PKNIC, Pakistan's official registry, by a route most international hosts simply do not hold. $8.50/yr on the registry's two-year minimum, and with no registrant details on the public WHOIS.
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PKNIC extensions offered
Direct
with the registry itself
Private
no public WHOIS details
2 yrs
registry-set minimum term
The Difference
Most hosts simply cannot supply this name
The mainstream registrars do not carry .pk at all, so we opened a direct line to PKNIC instead.
Taken straight from PKNIC
PKNIC runs the .pk registry, and PKNIC is exactly where your name goes on record. Hardly any international host can offer you one, because the large registrars simply do not carry the ending at all.
Public WHOIS shows nothing personal
Look up any .pk and all PKNIC hands back is status, dates and nameservers. Neither your name nor your address shows up, which leaves no privacy extra to add to the order.
Local standing from day one
A .com.pk tells a Pakistani customer the business is rooted here. In trade, retail and services that recognition sells harder than any generic ending.
Matching hosting with free SSL
Aim it at any plan of ours and the certificate is issued, and then reissued, at no cost at all. Prices display in rupees, though the charge itself still runs in dollars.
The Numbers
Four endings, one price
PKNIC charges the same for all four and asks two years up front on each.
| Extension | Per year | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|
| .pk | $8.50 | Anybody may hold it: Pakistan's bare country code |
| .com.pk | $8.50 | The usual choice for a Pakistani business |
| .net.pk | $8.50 | Meant for network and infrastructure firms |
| .org.pk | $8.50 | Non-profits, associations and community bodies |
Your first payment comes to $17.00 — two years, because PKNIC has no single-year term at all. After that it renews at $8.50/yr.
Who Buys One
Holding a .pk does not require you to live in Pakistan
Of every myth attached to this ending, the belief that a .pk requires a Pakistani identity card is the one that will not die, and it is simply untrue: PKNIC sets no local-presence rule whatsoever. Most of the names we file go to diaspora founders, to exporters selling into the country, and to brands staking their name there before somebody else gets to it.
A card cleared for international payments and a few spare minutes is all it takes. As you type, the availability check goes to PKNIC directly, so what you get back is the registry's own answer and not a cached guess off a reseller feed.
- No CNIC and no local address required
- Registered from any country, paid by card
- All four PKNIC endings available
- Kept in the same account as the hosting
Before You Order
Two oddities to know about beforehand
Both are unusual enough that springing them on you at the checkout screen would be poor form.
Two years is the minimum
There is no such thing as a single-year .pk; PKNIC will not allow one. That first payment buys two years at $17.00. Whatever one-year .pk price you spot elsewhere is only half of the actual bill.
Filed by a person here, not by an API
Live from PKNIC's WHOIS is where the availability check reads, yet the registration itself gets keyed in by our team by hand. Allow up to one working day for it. We'd sooner tell you that than promise “instant” and then fall short.
FAQ
.pk questions, answered plainly
Why do registrants inside Pakistan pay less?
PKNIC runs two pricing tiers, and we will say plainly which one this is. Accounts based in Pakistan qualify for a rupee rate international registrars cannot reach; everybody else pays the registry's international rate, which is what our cost is built on — and we sell below it, at $8.50 a year. If you live in Pakistan, hold a local payment method and can work through the registry's own process, going direct may still cost less — we will not pretend otherwise. What we offer is the international route: pay by card, keep WHOIS clear of your details, and hold the name in the same account as your hosting.
What does a .pk name cost?
$8.50 per year. Two years is the registry's minimum term, so the opening payment of $17.00 buys both of them outright. That rule comes from the registry rather than from us — a one-year .pk simply does not exist. After that the renewal stays at $8.50 a year and never rises once the first term closes.
Who set the two-year minimum?
PKNIC set it. The rule belongs to the official registry and binds every registrar, this one included. Any site quoting a one-year .pk price is either showing half the real bill or has no way to register the name at all. Better that the whole $17.00 sits in front of you now than appears as a surprise at checkout.
Can anyone pull up my details through a WHOIS lookup?
They cannot. Run a public WHOIS check on a .pk and back comes whether the name is registered, its creation and expiry dates, and its nameservers. Never a registrant name, address, telephone number or email. Among endings that is rare, and it works in your favour: elsewhere the choice is publication or paying for masking. With .pk nothing gets published in the first place, so there is nothing extra to buy.
Is a CNIC or Pakistani address required?
No on both counts. PKNIC imposes no local-presence rule and never asks for a CNIC, so a .pk or .com.pk can be taken out from any country on earth. Of everything attached to this ending, that myth is the most stubborn. Most of the names we register go to diaspora businesses, to exporters, and to companies selling into Pakistan from overseas or staking a brand there before anybody else does.
How quickly will my .pk go live?
The availability check queries PKNIC's own WHOIS while you type, so what comes back is current rather than pulled out of a cache. Registration itself is keyed in by our team rather than run through full automation, so allow up to one working day for the name to reach your account. The moment it goes active, an email arrives. We spell this out because promising an instant result would set an expectation we could not keep.
Can you take over a .pk that I registered elsewhere?
We can, although the registry handles the handover itself, rather than the auth-code flow you may recognise from .com transfers. Open a ticket with the name on it. We will talk you through exactly what PKNIC wants, then file the paperwork for you, and none of that help carries a fee.
How do I choose between the four endings?
For a business, .com.pk is usually the answer, since Pakistani customers recognise it fastest. Bare .pk runs shorter and is open to everyone, which makes it a strong fit for a brand or a personal site while the name remains free. Non-profits and associations suit .org.pk; .net.pk is meant for network operators. All four cost the same, and all four carry that two-year minimum.
Which payment options work from inside Pakistan?
Card only, and it must be a card that is enabled for international transactions. Plainly put: PayPal runs no consumer accounts in Pakistan, and JazzCash, Easypaisa and a local bank transfer are all still beyond us. Should none of those suit you, far better to learn it now than after falling for a name.
Pair With Hosting
Hosting to stand behind that name
A London datacentre is where our servers run, roughly 200 ms away from Pakistan. Cached pages still arrive quickly over that distance. The lag shows more once you are working inside an admin screen, and we would sooner say so than quote a figure that nobody ever measured.
The full picture, covering latency, how people actually pay, and what a Pakistani audience really receives, is laid out on hosting for Pakistan and where we host.
- Rupee pricing shown, dollars charged
- Cards accepted from anywhere
- Free SSL the moment the name points here
- The move handled by us at no cost
Before you register
The full domain price list
Registration alongside renewal across 500+ endings, and .pk is included.
Moving a name in
How a transfer in works, plus the places where .pk follows different rules.
Pointing a name at your hosting
Nameservers, records and the waiting: here is the whole sequence written out.
Keeping your details off WHOIS
On other endings, what the public record reveals and how to shut it down.
Take your .pk before somebody else takes it.
$8.50/yr straight from PKNIC, with your details held off the public WHOIS and not a penny extra to pay for privacy.
Check .pk AvailabilityMost international hosts cannot sell you a .pk at all, because the large registrars simply do not carry it. We file with PKNIC directly, which is why the ending exists on this site and almost nowhere else outside Pakistan. Underneath it is NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime commitment written into the SLA rather than the brochure.
Meant for founders, exporters and diaspora businesses claiming a Pakistani name. Every registration, renewal and transfer is quoted with its renewal figure attached, WHOIS privacy costs nothing on any registry that allows it, and the single step nobody can undo, the registration, is flagged before payment rather than after.
Four endings, one registry, and no local presence needed
PKNIC runs .pk and delegates .com.pk, .net.pk and .org.pk, and all four are registered straight with the registry rather than through a reseller chain that never had access to them. No CNIC is needed and no Pakistani address is needed; that rule does not exist, however often it is repeated. The registry does insist on two years as a minimum, so the opening payment covers both years outright and the renewal after that holds at the same yearly rate. The availability check reads live from PKNIC's own WHOIS, so what you see is the registry's answer rather than a cached list.
Speed is engineered in rather than bolted on with a plugin: NVMe arrays keep reads immediate, LiteSpeed answers over HTTP/2, and the server caches before your application does anything at all.
Why the first invoice covers two years
The oldest move in hosting is a cheap first year and a quiet rise at renewal. Hosting & Domains works the other way about: the number you join at is the number that renews, and anything promotional is flagged on the page before you pay. A .pk is bought two years at a time and PKNIC takes the name as soon as the registration is accepted, so it is not a purchase anybody can reverse; check the spelling and the ending before you send the order.
The two-year minimum is PKNIC's rule and it binds every registrar the registry delegates to, ours included, so anywhere advertising a one-year .pk is quoting half of what the order will really cost. There is no charge for privacy, since a .pk publishes nothing worth hiding, and nothing is added at checkout beyond the registry term.
What a WHOIS lookup gives away
Query a .pk and PKNIC returns the status, the creation and expiry dates and the nameservers. No registrant name, no address, no telephone number, no email address, which is rare enough among endings to be worth saying plainly, and it removes the privacy upsell other endings depend on. DNS for the name answers from our London datacentre alongside the rest of your records, and pointing it at hosting on this account issues a free certificate without you opening a file.
Support runs every hour of the day, staffed by the people who administer these servers, with a first reply aimed at 2 hours and 1 hour when a site is down. No tier hands you to a bot.
- .pk, .com.pk, .net.pk and .org.pk, all one price
- No CNIC and no Pakistani address needed
- Automatic failover inside our London datacentre
- LiteSpeed serving off 100% NVMe storage
Good to Know
More that's built in
A route most registrars do not have
The big international registrars cannot see this ending. Our route is straight to PKNIC, so the name gets registered instead of asked for and turned down.
Fast from the first byte
Your site runs on NVMe storage with LiteSpeed caching in front, quick before you touch a setting.
HTTPS at no cost
Every domain gets a certificate issued and renewed for it, and it never appears on a bill.
Moving in is free
Send your current login and the site arrives here free, files, databases and DNS included.
Backed up every day
A fresh backup lands every 24 hours, restorable from the panel in a couple of clicks.
Engineers answering
Real engineers work the chat and the tickets, aiming at a first reply inside 2 hours, or 1 hour when a site is down.
Getting Going
Getting going takes three steps
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Check it live
Type the name into the search. The availability answer comes from PKNIC's WHOIS as you type rather than from a reseller feed refreshed some time last week.
- 2
Order the two-year term
Order the extension you want on the registry's two-year minimum, paid by any card enabled for international transactions.
- 3
We file it with PKNIC
The registration is filed with PKNIC by hand and you get an email as soon as it is live. Allow a working day rather than expecting instant confirmation.
In Every Plan
Thrown in without an extra charge
- Renewal pricing visible before checkout
- A two-year minimum term set by PKNIC rather than by us
- Filed by hand at the registry, so allow a working day
- One-click installer covering 240+ apps
- Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
- Upgrade tiers without your files going anywhere
- Canadian-registered company, pricing in US dollars
- Shaped around founders, exporters and diaspora businesses claiming a Pakistani name
Still Curious
Questions that keep coming up
Does a .pk have to be hosted inside Pakistan?
No, since the ending and the server are separate decisions. A .pk points wherever its nameservers say, and search engines read the ending itself as the local signal rather than the server's address. Our hardware sits in London, roughly 200 ms from Karachi or Lahore: cached pages still arrive quickly over that distance, while the round trip shows itself once you are clicking around a dashboard. If your traffic is almost entirely inside Pakistan and you spend the day in wp-admin, that trade-off is better known before ordering than after.
Can a .pk be moved away later, or pointed elsewhere?
Both, whenever you like. The nameservers are yours to edit in the panel, so the name can point at any host anywhere without asking us. Moving the registration itself goes through PKNIC's own handover rather than the EPP code flow a .com uses: raise a ticket, tell us where it is going, and we file the paperwork from this side at no charge, exactly as we do for names arriving.
Does the price move at renewal?
The same rate and the same amount. There is no introductory price here that quietly doubles once you have settled in.
Can a .pk registration be cancelled or refunded?
No registrar can do it: once PKNIC accepts the registration the two-year term is spent. Check the spelling and the ending first, since .pk and .com.pk are different names. What we can do is say so in advance: if you are in Pakistan with a local payment method, going direct on the registry's own rupee tier may still be cheaper than ordering here, and telling you beats taking an order you come to resent.
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