ccTLDs
Country extensions answer to their registry, not to ICANN
There are 308 country-code extensions in the root, and this site has a price for 243 of them. Underneath those sit another 1,671 second-level names — the co.uk and com.au shapes — which are priced as separate rows here because they are sold as separate products.
Different rules, not just different prices
A generic extension's registry operates under a contract with ICANN, and the policies that come with that contract apply across all of them. A country code is delegated to a national operator, which sets its own terms: what a registration costs, what terms are sold, who is allowed to hold one, whether privacy exists, and what happens at renewal. There is no central rulebook to check, only the registry's own.
That is why this site treats a country extension's policy as a fact to be sourced rather than assumed. Type comes from IANA's root database. Restrictions come from a public statement or they are recorded as unknown.
Residency and presence
Some registries will only sell to a person or company with a connection to the country — an address, a registered entity, a local contact. Where this site has a confirmed rule, the extension's page prints it and marks local presence as required when the rule mentions presence, nexus or residence.
Be clear about the limit here: only 5 of the 308 country codes carry a restriction note confirmed from a public source. Everything else reads "unknown", and unknown means unconfirmed, not unrestricted. A blank is not permission. If an extension matters to you, the registry's own policy page is the document that decides, and a registrar that sells to you without checking has not made the rule go away.
Renewals behave differently, and so does supply
The promotional first year followed by a much larger renewal is mostly a new-gTLD habit. 64% of the priced country codes here renew within 5% of what they cost to register, against 26% of new gTLDs. On a country code, the advertised price is more often the real one.
The variation is somewhere else: in how many places will sell you one at all. The median priced country code is sold by 17 of the registrars on this board; the median priced new gTLD by 30. With few sellers there is less to compare, a single registrar's price change moves the cheapest column on its own, and a transfer-based split is often not available because nobody else quotes a transfer.
Reading a country-code row here
- Thin coverage is normal. One or two registrars on a row is not an error; it is the market.
- "Unknown" is honest, not empty. It appears wherever this site cannot confirm the current position from a public source.
- Second-level names are separate. co.uk is priced on its own row and inherits its classification from its parent, not its own entry in the root.
- The registry can change the price. A national operator answers to its own government and its own board, and repricing has happened on several country codes with a few months' notice.
The full list, filterable to country codes, is on the extensions page.