.ltd domain price
Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .ltd, in USD, re-checked daily. Registry wholesale is about $24.00 per year, so the last column is what each registrar adds on top. Machine-readable: current · history.
Is renewing early worth it?
.ltd goes from $25.23 to $36.00 a year at Porkbun on 2026-10-06 — 1 days away. ICANN’s Base Registry Agreement (§2.10(b)) obliges the registry to sell your registrar up to ten years at the pre-increase price right up to that moment, so the lock is real rather than a loophole.
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 | $5.661st yr only | $25.23 | $25.23 | +$1.23 | 2026-10-05 | open → |
| Spaceship | $4.341st yr only | $25.04 | $25.04 | +$1.04 | 2026-10-04 | open → |
| Cloudflare Registrar | $24.20 | $24.20 | — | +$0.20 | 2026-10-05 | open → |
| Dynadot | $5.571st yr only | $25.90 | $25.90 | +$1.90 | 2026-10-04 | open → |
Between the registrars tracked here, .ltd ranges from $24.20 at Cloudflare Registrar to $25.90 — a difference of $1.70 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 .ltd. 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 .ltd costs $122.40 at Dynadot — a restore fee, not a renewal, and 5.1× 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.