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.com Domains

Get the .com. Skip the Setup.

Still the ending people type without thinking. Buy it here and we point it at your website for you.

See if your .com is free
Type a word to see it across the popular endings, or the whole name, like mystartup.com, to ask about just that one. A standard .com here is $15.08 a year.
Tell us what the site is, in a word or a sentence, and we suggest names, then check which ones are still available.

What to Know Before Buying a .com

  • It is what people assume

    Tell someone your name out loud and .com is what most of them will try first. More than 166 million names are registered on it, more than any other ending.

  • The good names are mostly gone

    Single words and short phrases were taken long ago. Adding a word, like getname or namehq, usually works better than settling for a spelling people will get wrong.

  • The price goes up in steps

    Verisign, which runs .com, raised what it charges every seller from $10.26 to $10.97 a year on November 1, 2026. Expect retail prices everywhere to follow over time.

.com Domains at a Glance

Registry
VeriSign
Type
Generic
Who can register
Anyone, anywhere
Shortest term
1 year
HTTPS
Not forced by the ending
How Google treats it
Generic, not tied to a country

Why .com Is Hard to Get but Cheap to Keep

.com has been open since 1985, and by mid-2026 it held about 166.6 million names. That is the whole story of why the word you wanted is gone: forty years of people buying the obvious ones, and investors holding many of them for resale.

What you pay is the opposite story. Verisign's fee to every seller is low compared with most endings, at $10.97 a year since November 2026, and it moves in small announced steps. So a .com is often one of the cheaper names to own over ten years, even when a newer ending looks cheaper in its first year.

So the practical question is rarely whether .com is worth it. It is whether you can find a version of your name that is still clean once you have added a word, and whether that beats the plain name on another ending.

A Good Fit For

  • Any business whose customers will hear the name aloud. People type .com by habit, so a name passed on in conversation has the best chance of reaching you without a spelling lesson.
  • Anything that will be printed or needs to last for years. Vans, packaging and business cards are expensive to redo, and a .com is unlikely to look dated or need explaining later.
  • Sending email from your own name. A familiar ending raises fewer questions with the people you write to, which helps when your first message is the first thing they see from you.

Not the Best Fit For

  • A name that only works once you add a long string of words. If it no longer fits on a card or sounds awkward aloud, the plain name on another ending may serve you better.
  • Short-lived projects, where the lowest cost for one year matters more than the long run. A campaign that ends in a few months gets little from an address built to last.

What the Price Pays For

A registrar that only sells names will usually charge less for the name. What you get here is everything after it, in the same place as your website.

  • The connecting is done for you

    We write the DNS records and join the name to your website ourselves. Nothing to look up and nothing to copy between accounts.

  • The padlock comes with it

    The SSL certificate is issued when you pick the website, then renewed for as long as you use the name. It is not an extra.

  • Email on your name

    Add hello@ or info@ on the name, and mail sent there lands in the inbox you already read. The forwarding and MX records are set up here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does a .com rank better on Google?

Not because of the ending. Google treats .com like any other generic ending, so what ranks is the website. The advantage is people: it is easier to remember and easier to type correctly.

What can I do if the .com I want is taken?

Try a short extra word in front or behind, like get, try or hq, or use another ending your audience will recognise. The owner may also sell it, though that is a private deal and often an expensive one.

Who can buy a .com?

Anyone, anywhere. There are no rules about who you are or what the website does.

Should I buy other endings as well?

Only if you would be unhappy to see someone else use them. For most small websites, one good name is enough.

How old is the .com domain?

It opened in 1985, which makes it one of the first endings on the internet.

Do I need a paid plan?

The name is its own yearly purchase, and you can use it with a website kept anywhere. Connecting it to a website here needs a paid plan, from Starter. Free websites stay on a free subdomain.

Is the name mine, and can I move it later?

Yes. It is registered in your name, and the code you need to take it elsewhere is a click away in its menu. A name you already own elsewhere can move here the same way.

Other endings: .co domains, .store domains, .shop domains, .xyz domains, .app domains, .studio domains, .design domains, .io domains, .dev domains, .ai domains, .tech domains, all domain names

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