.pictures domain price
Registration, renewal and transfer prices for .pictures, in USD, re-checked daily. Registry wholesale is about $12.00 per year, so the last column is what each registrar adds on top. Machine-readable: current · history.
Is renewing early worth it?
.pictures goes from $12.87 to $15.00 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 | $8.241st yr only | $12.87 | $12.87 | +$0.87 | 2026-10-05 | open → |
| Spaceship | $12.62 | $12.62 | $12.62 | +$0.62 | 2026-10-04 | open → |
| Cloudflare Registrar | $12.20 | $12.20 | — | +$0.20 | 2026-10-05 | open → |
| Dynadot | $8.241st yr only | $13.06 | $13.06 | +$1.06 | 2026-10-04 | open → |
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 .pictures. 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 .pictures costs $100.40 at Dynadot — a restore fee, not a renewal, and 8.2× 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.
Recorded changes
No changes recorded yet — tracking began recently, and history accumulates from here.