.direct domain price
Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .direct, in USD, re-checked daily. Registry wholesale is about $32.00 per year, so the last column is what each registrar adds on top. Machine-readable: current · history.
| Registrar | Register | Renew | Transfer | Markup | Checked | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porkbun | $10.811st yr only | $34.50 | $34.50 | +$2.50 | 2026-10-06 | open → |
| Spaceship | $13.141st yr only | $33.32 | $33.32 | +$1.32 | 2026-10-06 | open → |
| Cloudflare Registrar | $32.20 | $32.20 | — | +$0.20 | 2026-10-06 | open → |
| Dynadot | $10.921st yr only | $35.41 | $35.41 | +$3.41 | 2026-10-06 | open → |
Between the registrars tracked here, .direct ranges from $32.20 at Cloudflare Registrar to $35.41 — a difference of $3.21 a year, 10%. Moving a domain is how that gap gets claimed.
Renewing a domain you already own cannot be linked to from outside — it needs your account session — so those links open each registrar's own page for .direct. Moving to a cheaper registrar is a transfer, which extends the expiry you already have by one year at the new registrar's price. It is normally blocked for 60 days after registration and after a previous transfer. None of these links earns this site anything today — see disclosure.
If you let it expire
Recovering a lapsed .direct costs $134.40 at Dynadot — a restore fee, not a renewal, and 4.2× the cheapest renewal above. The redemption window is 30 days by Dynadot's reckoning, then 5 more before the name is deleted. Dynadot is the only registrar tracked here that publishes this figure, so it is one registrar's price rather than a market rate — the rest are here.