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A first website, portfolio or brochure site with room to grow.
PKR 2,199per year
- Disk space2000 MB
- Bandwidth usage25 GB
- Email accounts10
- Sub-domainsUnlimited
- SSL certificateFree, 1 year
- Server typeLinux / Windows
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Register Your Cheap Domain to Host in PK
Find the right name for your business, shop, school or idea, register it in a few minutes and then put it to work on hosting priced in rupees. Search .pk, .com.pk, .com and many other extensions below, and pay with the local methods you already use.
- .pkRs. 4,149
- .comRs. 3,429
- .com.pkRs. 4,149
- .edu.pkRs. 4,500
- .gov.pkRs. 4,149
- .tvRs. 8,499
.pk names through PKNIC
Pakistani domain extensions and their 2-year prices
A .pk address tells visitors at a glance that you serve Pakistan. These names are registered through PKNIC in 2-year terms, and we submit and track each request for you, from a simple .pk to .com.pk, .net.pk and .org.pk.
| Extension | Price | Term | Who it suits | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .pk | PKR 4,149 | 2 Years | Open to anyone, local or overseas | Register .pk |
| .com.pk | PKR 4,149 | 2 Years | Businesses, companies and individuals | Register .com.pk |
| .net.pk | PKR 4,149 | 2 Years | Network service providers | Register .net.pk |
| .org.pk | PKR 4,149 | 2 Years | Local non-profits | Register .org.pk |
| .web.pk | PKR 4,149 | 2 Years | Individual websites | Register .web.pk |
| .biz.pk | PKR 4,149 | 2 Years | General business | Register .biz.pk |
| .fam.pk | PKR 4,149 | 2 Years | Family and individuals | Register .fam.pk |
Prices update automatically from our price list. Registering for a school, college or government body? Those extensions need documents, explained on the .PK domains page.
Global and country names
International and country domains to register alongside your .pk
Selling abroad, building an app or protecting a brand? Pair your Pakistani name with a .com, .net or a country extension for the markets you want to reach. DNS management is included with every name you register here.
| Extension | Price | Term | Who it suits | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .co | Rs.3,599 | 1 Year | Short alternative to .com | Register .co |
| .tv | Rs.8,499 | 1 Year | Media, video & streaming brands | Register .tv |
| .co.uk | Rs.2,799 | 1 Year | United Kingdom | Register .co.uk |
| .ae | Rs.12,499 | 1 Year | United Arab Emirates | Register .ae |
| .ca | Rs.3,549 | 1 Year | Canada | Register .ca |
| .com.au | Rs.3,699 | 1 Year | Australia | Register .com.au |
| .in | Rs.1,800 | 1 Year | India | Register .in |
| .jp | Rs.9,999 | 1 Year | Japan | Register .jp |
| .ru | Rs.2,000 | 1 Year | Russia | Register .ru |
| .de | Rs.3,399 | 1 Year | Germany | Register .de |
| .no | Rs.3,699 | 1 Year | Norway | Register .no |
| .se | Rs.3,600 | 1 Year | Sweden | Register .se |
| .fr | Rs.1,900 | 1 Year | France | Register .fr |
Already own a domain elsewhere? You can transfer it to HostName and manage everything from one account.
Before you click register
Six quick checks for a domain name that lasts
A domain is something you will print on cards, say on the phone and type into adverts for years. These small checks take five minutes and save a costly rename later.
Say it out loud
Read the name to a friend over the phone. If they have to ask how it is spelled, or whether there is a hyphen, the name will lose you visitors and emails every week.
Keep it short and clear
Shorter names are easier to remember and to fit on signboards and delivery bags. Two simple words usually beat one long, clever phrase that nobody can spell.
Check trademarks and social handles
Search for the name on social platforms and in your industry. Owning the domain does not protect you if another business already uses that brand name.
Pick the extension for your audience
Customers in Pakistan trust .pk and .com.pk addresses. Visitors overseas expect .com or their own country extension. Many businesses register both.
Register common misspellings
If your name is often mistyped, register the likely variants and redirect them to your main site so no visitor lands on a stranger's page.
Think about renewal from day one
Use an email address you will still read in five years and keep invoices in one client area. Most lost domains are simply forgotten renewals.
Hosting for your new name
Shared hosting plans billed yearly in rupees
Once the domain is yours, give it a home. Four yearly plans cover everything from a one-page business card to a busy company site, with email on your domain, one-click installers and Linux cPanel or Windows Plesk at the same price.
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Professional's Pick
Company sites with corporate email and real daily traffic.
PKR 2,999per year
- Disk space5000 MB
- Bandwidth usage60 GB
- Email accounts75
- Sub-domainsUnlimited
- SSL certificateFree, 1 year
- Server typeLinux / Windows
Host Everything
Growing sites that need more room and more mailboxes.
PKR 4,399per year
- Disk space10000 MB
- Bandwidth usage100 GB
- Email accounts100
- Addon domains01
- Sub-domainsUnlimited
- Server typeLinux / Windows
Multi Host
Resource-heavy sites and stores that need unlimited room.
PKR 6,999per year
- Disk space100000 MB
- Bandwidth usageUnlimited
- Email accountsUnlimited
- Addon domains04
- Sub-domainsUnlimited
- Server typeLinux / Windows
Building on WordPress? See WordPress hosting. Want your data kept in Pakistan? Compare all hosting plans.
Room to grow
Virtual servers in Karachi, Islamabad and 36 global locations
Some projects outgrow shared hosting quickly: custom applications, busy online stores, game servers or software that needs root access. For those, our KVM virtual servers start from $17.95/mo a month, each with a dedicated IPv4 address and full control of the operating system.
Choose Karachi for low latency to users across Pakistan, the Islamabad Tier III facility with 800 Gbps DDoS mitigation for exposed services, or our global platform with NVMe storage and unmetered bandwidth in 36 locations worldwide. Your domain points to whichever server you pick, and you manage it from the same client area. Read about VPS servers.
From idea to inbox
Getting a domain online with HostName in four steps
Search and choose
Type your idea in the search box and compare the extensions that are free. Add the ones you want to your cart, including spelling variants you plan to redirect.
Enter registrant details
Give the name of the person or company that will own the domain, with a working email and phone number. For .edu.pk, .ac.pk or government names, prepare the documents PKNIC asks for.
Pay the way you prefer
Use bank transfer, Easypaisa, JazzCash, a card, PayPal or an international money transfer. The domain is submitted once the payment is confirmed.
Connect hosting and email
Add a hosting plan or point the DNS to the service you already use. Set up mailboxes on your domain and start sending email from your own address.
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Practical ways to find a domain name that is still available
Start with the words your customers already use. Write down what you sell, where you sell it and how people describe you when they recommend you to a friend. A tailor in a busy market, a tuition academy or a solar installer will each find that the plain, descriptive words are the ones people search for and remember.
Next, combine those words with your brand. If your business name alone is taken, try adding a short word such as your service, your town or a simple verb like get, try or shop. Keep the result under about fifteen characters where you can, and avoid joining words that create an awkward or unintended reading when written without spaces.
Check each idea in the search box above and look across extensions rather than fixing on one. The .pk name may be free when the .com is not, or the other way round. Write down three or four shortlisted names, then sleep on them; the one you still like the next morning is usually the right choice.
Finally, test your shortlist with real people. Send it to a few customers or relatives on WhatsApp and ask them to type it from memory a day later. The name that survives that small experiment is a name that will work on a shop sign, a radio advert and the back of a delivery van.
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Deciding between a .pk address and a .com for your website
The extension tells visitors where you are and who you serve. A .pk or .com.pk address signals that a business is based in Pakistan, prices in rupees and delivers here. For local shops, clinics, schools, service companies and professionals, that signal builds trust before the first page has finished loading.
A .com suits brands that sell abroad, run software products, or expect most of their visitors from outside the country. It is also the extension people tend to type by habit, which is why many businesses hold the .com even when the .pk is their main site.
Holding both is often the safest choice. You keep one as the main address for your website and email, and redirect the other so nobody else can build on a name that looks like yours. The extra cost is small compared with the cost of a competitor or squatter using your brand.
Remember that the choice affects renewals. Names in the .pk family are registered through PKNIC in 2-year terms, while international names follow the terms of their own registries. Keep both renewal dates in the same client area so the calendars never catch you out, and pay the invoices as soon as they appear.
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What happens behind the scenes when you register a .pk domain
When you order a .pk name, we pass your registrant details to PKNIC, the authority that manages the .pk namespace. PKNIC checks the request and, for most extensions, registers the name for a 2-year term. During that time it appears in your client area with its expiry date and the DNS servers it uses.
Some extensions carry extra rules. Names ending in .edu.pk and .ac.pk are reserved for recognised educational institutions, so PKNIC asks for proof of that recognition. Government extensions such as .gov.pk require an authorisation letter from the relevant department. Without these papers, the request waits rather than being registered.
Registrants with an address outside Pakistan can also hold .pk names, but PKNIC may charge more for those registrations. If you are ordering from abroad, our team will confirm the exact amount before the request is submitted, so there are no surprises after payment.
Accuracy matters at every step. Use the legal name of the person or organisation that should own the domain, a phone number that works and an email address you control. Those details decide who can approve changes, renew the name or move it later, so take a minute to get them right on the first attempt.
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Connecting your domain to a website, email and other services
A domain on its own does nothing until DNS tells the internet where to send visitors and mail. DNS management is included with every domain you register here, which means you can point the name at our hosting, at a server you run, or at services from other providers without paying anything extra.
The records you will meet most often are simple. An A record points the name to a server address. A CNAME points one name at another, which is handy for a www version or a subdomain. MX records decide which service receives your email, and TXT records prove ownership or protect your mail against spoofing.
If you host with us, we set these records automatically when we connect the domain to your plan. If you use an outside platform such as a store builder, a booking system or a mail service, copy the records they give you into DNS management, or send them to our support team and we will add them for you.
Changes are not always instant. Once a record is saved, networks around the world update their caches over the following hours. Plan big switches, such as moving email, for a quiet evening, and keep the old service running until you are sure every new message is arriving at the new address.
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Keeping your domains safe through renewals and transfers
The simplest way to protect a domain is to renew it on time. Invoices appear in your client area before the expiry date; pay them early, especially for .pk names with 2-year terms, because a forgotten renewal takes the website and every mailbox on that domain offline at once.
If your domains are spread across several companies, consider moving them to one place. A transfer keeps the name, the registration history and usually the remaining time, but brings renewals, DNS and billing into a single account. For international names you will need an authorisation code from the current registrar, and the domain must be unlocked.
Before any transfer, check that the registrant email on the domain is one you can read, since approval messages are sent there. Do not start a transfer in the last few days before expiry; renew first if time is short, then move the name with breathing room.
Keep a simple record of every domain you own: the name, the renewal date, where its DNS points and which services depend on it. That one page, shared with a trusted colleague, prevents most of the domain emergencies we are asked to rescue each year.
Domain and hosting together
One account for your names, websites and mailboxes
Your domain, hosting and email depend on each other. When they sit with different companies, a small change such as a new mail service can mean three logins, three support desks and a lot of guessing about where the problem lies.
Keeping them together at HostName gives you one client area with every renewal date, one place to edit DNS and one team that can see the whole setup. When something breaks, we can check the domain, the server and the mailbox in a single conversation, in English or Urdu.
You still stay in control. Every domain can point anywhere you like, and you can bring names in or take them out whenever your plans change.
- DNS management with every domain
- Free website migration on shared hosting
- Support by phone, email and ticket
Domain help
Questions people ask before registering a domain
Need something else? Contact us or open a ticket.
How long does a new domain take to start working?
An international name such as .com is submitted to its registry as soon as your payment is confirmed, although DNS changes can take a few hours to spread across every network. A .pk name is processed through PKNIC, so it can take a little longer, especially when documents are required. You will see the status in your client area, and our team will tell you if anything is holding the registration up.
Who legally owns the domain I register through HostName?
You do. The registrant details you enter at checkout, your name or your company name, are recorded as the owner of the domain. We act as the registrar or the PKNIC partner that manages the name on your behalf. Keep those details accurate, because the registrant contact is the one that proves ownership if there is ever a dispute or a transfer request.
Can I register a domain today and buy hosting later?
Yes. Many customers secure a name first so nobody else takes it, then add hosting weeks or months later once the website is ready. Until then the domain can sit parked with our DNS, or you can point it at a social media page or another provider. When you add hosting, we connect the domain for you.
Is it possible to change the domain name after I register it?
A registered domain cannot be edited letter by letter. If you notice a spelling mistake or want a different name, the answer is to register the correct name as a new domain. Many owners keep both and redirect the old one to the new one, which also catches visitors who type the wrong version. Check the spelling twice at checkout.
What should I do if the name I want is already taken?
First check whether the site on it is active; an unused name may be renewed by its owner anyway, so do not plan around it expiring. Try a different extension, a short descriptive word added to your brand, or your city or industry. Avoid hyphens and numbers that people mishear on the phone. Our team can suggest alternatives if you share your brand.
Can someone abroad register a .pk domain with HostName?
Yes. Pakistanis living overseas and foreign companies with business in Pakistan can register .pk names. PKNIC may charge more for a registration that uses a non-Pakistani address, so the final price for that name can differ from the standard one. International customers can pay by Visa or Mastercard, PayPal, Western Union or MoneyGram. Our team will confirm the PKNIC charge before submitting.
Will I get reminders before my domain expires?
Renewal invoices are generated in your client area ahead of the expiry date and sent to the email address on your account, so keep that address current. Pay them early, particularly for .pk names, which renew in 2-year terms. A lapsed domain takes your website and email down with it, and an expired name can be lost if it is not renewed in time.
Can I use my domain with email from Google or Microsoft?
Yes. DNS management is included with every domain, so you can add the MX, TXT and CNAME records that Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or any other mail service asks for. If you would rather keep things simple, our shared hosting plans include email accounts on your own domain. Our team can enter the records for you if you send us the provider's instructions.
Claim your name before someone else does
Search for your domain now, register it with local payment options and connect hosting whenever you are ready.