.us Domains
Register your .us domain in seconds
The United States has its own extension: short, national, geotargeted straight at American search. Registrants need a genuine US connection to hold one. Fast DNS puts it live within minutes. Register from $7.99/yr — searched, priced and switched on inside a single visit.
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The Extension
Why .us?
America's country-code extension is .us, and it behaves the way national extensions behave everywhere. Customers read it as local. Google reads it as relevant to US queries. American businesses, organisations and residents who want a national identity that no generic TLD can hand them will find it fits.
Learn one rule and one policy before you start searching. The rule is a US nexus: citizens qualify, so do residents, US-registered entities, and organisations with a bona fide presence in the country. The policy is publication. usTLD rules make registrant details public, which means WHOIS privacy cannot be offered on .us at all, so register with business details rather than home ones wherever you can. Registration itself completes instantly, and anycast DNS answers inside the first minute.
Good Fit
.us works best for
- US businesses serving American customers
- American organisations, campaigns and communities
- US residents' personal and professional sites
- US-facing presences of qualifying international companies
What You Get
Included with every domain
National signal for US search
Geotargeting points it at the United States, which is a genuine relevance signal on American queries.
A namespace with real availability
It is fought over less than .com, so clean American brand names remain open on .us.
Instant activation
Minutes after registration it is live, with hosting and SSL attached during that same visit.
Common Questions
Questions about .us
Who qualifies to register a .us domain?
US citizens and permanent residents are covered by the usTLD nexus requirement, along with entities formed in the US and foreign organisations holding a bona fide presence there, meaning an office, operations, or the lawful sale of goods and services. At registration you attest to whichever nexus category applies.
Why is WHOIS privacy unavailable when I register a .us?
Private and proxy registration are prohibited under usTLD registry policy, so registrant details get published in WHOIS. Among the extensions we sell, this one stands out as the exception. Where you are eligible to do it, register with business contact details and your personal ones stay off the record.
Should a US business pick .us or .com?
Where the .com is free, most people take both: .com for reach, .us for national identity. If the .com went years ago, .us gets the exact name back with an American signal attached, and Google's geotargeting makes it a sound primary domain if your audience is US-only.
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