.io domain price
Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .io, in USD, re-checked daily. Registry wholesale is about $49.80 per year, so the last column is what each registrar adds on top. Machine-readable: current · history.
Is renewing early worth it?
.io goes from $51.80 to $60.00 a year at Porkbun on 2027-01-19 — 106 days away. This is a country-code TLD, which sits outside ICANN’s rules: no registry here owes you a price lock, a notice period or a ten-year term. Treat the figures below as indicative only.
This is a prepayment, not a discount. Registry fees are non-refundable and do not follow a domain you sell, so prepaid years only save money on domains you would have renewed anyway — the third figure is the point where the trade stops being a loss. The ten-year cap runs from today, not from when you registered, so a domain with three years left can add at most seven. §2.10(b) fixes what your registrar pays the registry; it does not oblige your registrar to pass the saving on, and a registrar that has already repriced saves you nothing. Premium and legacy-tier names are excluded from uniform renewal pricing and can behave differently. Figures ignore the ICANN fee, tax, and what your money could earn elsewhere.
| Registrar | Register | Renew | Transfer | Markup | Checked | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porkbun | $28.121st yr only | $51.80 | $51.80 | +$2.00 | 2026-10-05 | open → |
| Spaceship | $31.981st yr only | $51.75 | $51.75 | +$1.95 | 2026-10-04 | open → |
| Cloudflare Registrar | $32.001st yr only | $50.00 | — | +$0.20 | 2026-10-05 | open → |
| Dynadot | $28.891st yr only | $53.50 | $53.50 | +$3.70 | 2026-10-04 | open → |
Between the registrars tracked here, .io ranges from $50.00 at Cloudflare Registrar to $53.50 — a difference of $3.50 a year, 7%. 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 .io. .io is a country-code TLD, so ICANN's transfer rules do not apply — its registry sets its own terms, and a transfer here may not add a year at all. Check with the registry before assuming anything from the transfer guide. None of these links earns this site anything today — see disclosure.
If you let it expire
Recovering a lapsed .io costs $170.00 at Dynadot — a restore fee, not a renewal, and 3.4× 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.
Recorded changes
No changes recorded yet — tracking began recently, and history accumulates from here.