.pk Registration
Your .pk domain, registered from any country
Your name goes straight onto PKNIC, Pakistan's official registry — a route most international hosts simply do not have. $8.50/yr on the registry's two-year minimum, with no registrant details on public WHOIS.
4
PKNIC extensions offered
Direct
with the registry itself
Private
no public WHOIS details
2 yrs
registry-set minimum term
The Difference
Most hosts can't get you this domain
Mainstream registrars skip .pk entirely, so we built a direct line to PKNIC.
Sourced direct from PKNIC
PKNIC operates .pk, and that is exactly where your name is registered. Most international hosts cannot offer one at all — the big registrars simply do not carry the extension.
Public WHOIS shows nothing personal
Query any .pk and PKNIC hands back status, dates and nameservers only. Your name and address never appear, so there is no privacy add-on to bolt onto the order.
Local credibility from day one
A .com.pk signals to Pakistani customers that you belong. In trade, retail and services, that recognition converts better than any generic extension.
Matching hosting with free SSL
Point it at any of our plans and the certificate is issued and renewed at no cost, with pricing displayed in rupees even though the actual charge runs in dollars.
The Numbers
Four extensions, a single price
PKNIC prices all four identically and requires two years up front on each.
| Extension | Per year | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|
| .pk | $8.50 | Anyone can register it — Pakistan's bare country code |
| .com.pk | $8.50 | The default pick for Pakistani businesses |
| .net.pk | $8.50 | Aimed at network and infrastructure firms |
| .org.pk | $8.50 | Non-profits, associations and community bodies |
Your first payment comes to $17.00 — two years, since PKNIC offers no single-year term. From then on it renews at $8.50/yr.
Who Buys One
You do not have to live in Pakistan to hold a .pk
The belief that a .pk needs a Pakistani identity card is the single most persistent myth about this extension, and it is simply not true — PKNIC sets no local-presence rule at all. Most of the names we file go to diaspora founders, exporters selling into the country, and brands claiming their name there before somebody else does.
What you need is a card enabled for international payments and a few minutes. The availability check queries PKNIC directly as you type, so the answer you get is the registry's answer rather than a cached guess from a reseller feed.
- No CNIC and no local address required
- Registered from any country, paid by card
- All four PKNIC extensions available
- Held in the same account as your hosting
Before You Order
Two quirks worth knowing up front
Both are unusual enough that springing them on you at the checkout screen would be bad form.
Two years is the minimum
No .pk can be registered for a single year — PKNIC does not allow it. Your first payment buys two years at $17.00. Any one-year .pk price you see elsewhere is only half the real bill.
A human completes it, not an API
The availability check reads live from PKNIC's WHOIS, but the registration is entered by our team by hand. Budget up to one working day. We'd rather tell you that than promise “instant” and fall short.
FAQ
.pk questions, answered straight
Why do Pakistan-based registrants pay less?
PKNIC runs two pricing tiers, and we will tell you plainly which one this is. Accounts based in Pakistan qualify for a rupee rate that international registrars cannot reach; everyone else pays the registry's international rate — that is the rate we buy at, and we deliberately sell beneath 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 costs less — we will not claim otherwise. What we offer is the international route: pay by card, keep WHOIS clear of your details, and hold the domain in the same account as your hosting.
How much is a .pk domain?
$8.50 per year. PKNIC requires a minimum term of two years, so your first payment is $17.00 and buys both years outright. That rule comes from the registry, not from us — a one-year .pk simply does not exist. Renewals hold at $8.50 a year and never climb once the opening term ends.
Who decided on the two-year minimum?
PKNIC did — it is the official registry's rule and binds every registrar, ours included. Any site quoting a one-year .pk price is either showing you half the real bill or has no way to actually register the name. We would rather put the full $17.00 in front of you now than surprise you at checkout.
Can anyone see my details in a WHOIS lookup?
They cannot. A public WHOIS check on a .pk returns only whether the name is registered, its creation and expiry dates, and its nameservers — never a registrant name, address, phone number or email. That is rare among extensions, and it works to your advantage: elsewhere you either accept publication or pay for masking. Here nothing is published and nothing extra needs buying.
Is a CNIC or Pakistani address required?
No to both. PKNIC imposes no local-presence rule and never asks for a CNIC, so a .pk or .com.pk can be registered from any country on earth — the most persistent myth about this extension. Most names we register go to diaspora businesses, exporters, and companies selling into Pakistan from overseas or locking down a brand there before anyone else grabs it.
How quickly will my .pk go live?
The availability check runs live against PKNIC's own WHOIS as you type, so what you see is current rather than cached. The registration itself is entered by our team instead of being fully automated, so allow up to one working day for the name to reach your account. An email lands the moment it is active. We spell that out because promising "instant" would set an expectation we cannot keep.
Can you take over a .pk I registered elsewhere?
We can, though the registry runs the handover itself rather than the auth-code flow you might know from .com transfers. Raise a ticket with the domain name and we will walk you through exactly what PKNIC needs, then file the paperwork on your behalf. There is no fee for that help.
How do I choose between the four extensions?
For a business, .com.pk is the standard option and the one Pakistani customers place fastest. Bare .pk is shorter and open to everyone, a strong fit for a brand or personal site while the name is still available. .org.pk suits non-profits and associations; .net.pk is intended for network operators. All four cost the same, and all four carry the two-year minimum.
What payment options work from within Pakistan?
Card only, and it must be one enabled for international transactions. To be upfront: PayPal does not offer consumer accounts in Pakistan, and we cannot yet accept JazzCash, Easypaisa or a local bank transfer. If none of those works for you, better to find out now than after you have fallen for a name.
Pair With Hosting
Hosting to sit behind the name
Our servers run from a London datacentre, roughly 200 ms from Pakistan. Cached pages still land quickly at that distance; the delay is more noticeable once you are working inside an admin screen, and we would rather say so than quote a number nobody measured.
The full picture — latency, payment options and what a Pakistani audience actually experiences — sits on hosting for Pakistan and where we host.
- Rupee pricing shown, dollars charged
- Cards accepted from anywhere
- Free SSL the moment the domain points here
- Migration handled by us at no cost
Before you register
The full domain price list
Registration beside renewal for 500+ extensions, .pk among them.
Moving a domain in
How an inbound transfer works, and where .pk follows different rules.
Pointing a domain at your hosting
Nameservers, records and the wait — the whole sequence explained.
Keeping your details off WHOIS
What the public record shows on other extensions, and how to close it.
Claim your .pk before anyone beats you to it.
$8.50/yr straight from PKNIC, with your details kept off public WHOIS and nothing extra to pay for privacy.
Check .pk AvailabilityMost international hosts cannot sell you a .pk at all — the large registrars simply do not carry it. We file with PKNIC directly, which is why the extension exists on this site and almost nowhere else outside Pakistan. Under the hood you get NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime commitment written into the SLA, not a brochure.
Designed for founders, exporters and diaspora businesses claiming a name in Pakistan. Registrations, renewals and transfers are all quoted with the renewal figure attached, WHOIS privacy costs nothing wherever the registry allows it, and the one step nobody can undo — the registration itself — is flagged before you pay rather than after.
Four extensions, one registry, no local presence required
PKNIC operates .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 required and no Pakistani address is required — that rule does not exist, however often it gets repeated. What the registry does insist on is a two-year minimum term, so the opening payment buys both years outright and every renewal afterwards holds at the same yearly rate. The availability check reads live from PKNIC's own WHOIS, so the answer on screen is the registry's answer rather than a cached list.
Speed is engineered in, not bolted on with a plugin: NVMe arrays keep reads instant, LiteSpeed responds over HTTP/2, and the server caches before your application lifts a finger.
Why the first invoice covers two years
Hosting's oldest move is a cheap first year and a quiet hike at renewal. HostingFast runs the opposite way: 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 anyone can reverse — check the spelling and the extension before you send the order.
The two-year minimum is PKNIC's rule and it binds every registrar the registry delegates to, ours included — anywhere advertising a one-year .pk is quoting half of what the order will actually cost. Nothing is added for privacy, because a .pk publishes nothing to hide in the first place, and nothing is added at checkout beyond the registry term itself.
What a WHOIS lookup gives away
Query a .pk and PKNIC hands back the status, the creation and expiry dates and the nameservers. No registrant name, no address, no phone number, no email — which is rare enough among extensions to be worth saying plainly, and it removes the privacy upsell that other endings depend on. DNS for the name answers from our London datacentre beside 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 targeted inside 2 hours — 1 hour when a site is down. No tier hands you off 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 extension. Ours goes to PKNIC directly, so the name is registered rather than requested and refused.
Fast from the first byte
Your site runs on NVMe storage with LiteSpeed caching ahead of it — fast before you open a single setting.
HTTPS at no cost
Every domain gets a certificate issued and renewed automatically, and it never shows up on a bill.
Moving in is free
Send your current login and the site lands here free — files, databases and DNS all included.
Backed up every day
Every 24 hours a fresh backup lands, restorable in a couple of clicks from the panel.
Engineers answering
Actual engineers work chat and tickets, targeting a first reply inside 2 hours — 1 hour when a site is down.
Getting Going
Set up in three quick steps
- 1
Check it live
Type the name into the search. The availability answer comes from PKNIC's WHOIS as you type, not 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, at the rate the price table shows, paid by any card enabled for international transactions.
- 3
We file it with PKNIC
Our team files the registration with PKNIC by hand and emails you the moment it is active. Allow one working day rather than expecting an instant confirmation.
In Every Plan
Bundled in at no extra cost
- Renewal pricing visible before checkout
- Two-year minimum term set by PKNIC, not by us
- Filed by hand at the registry — allow one working day
- One-click installer covering 240+ apps
- Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
- Upgrade tiers without your files going anywhere
- UK-registered company, pricing in US dollars
- Shaped around founders, exporters and diaspora businesses claiming a name in Pakistan
Still Curious
Questions that keep coming up
Does a .pk have to be hosted in Pakistan?
No — the extension and the server are separate decisions. A .pk points wherever its nameservers say, and search engines read the extension 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 makes itself felt once you are clicking around a dashboard. If your traffic is almost entirely inside Pakistan and you spend your day in wp-admin, that trade-off is better known before you order than after.
Can I move a .pk away later, or point it elsewhere?
Both, whenever you like. Nameservers are yours to edit in the panel, so the name can point at any host on earth without asking us first. Moving the registration itself runs 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?
Same rate, same amount. There is no introductory price here that silently doubles once you are settled.
Can a .pk registration be cancelled or refunded?
It cannot, at any registrar: PKNIC accepts the registration and the two-year term is spent at that moment. Check the spelling and the extension first — .pk and .com.pk are different names. What we can do is be straight with you beforehand: if you are in Pakistan with a local payment method, going direct on the registry's own rupee tier costs less than ordering here, and we would rather say so than take an order you end up resenting.
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