An ending named after a place, for businesses that are genuinely of that place.
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.cologne costs $36.44 to register with us and $36.44 to renew, at our registrar's own rate with nothing added. .cologne is a domain ending named after a place. It is the most direct way to say where you are in the address itself, and it is worth exactly as much as being local is worth to your customers.
The ending is the part after the dot: the .cologne in example.cologne. Place endings were created so that businesses, institutions and communities tied to a specific city or region could say so in their name rather than in a strapline.
Unlike a country-code ending, a place ending is usually a generic extension with a geographic name, which means the rules are set by whoever runs it rather than by a national government. Some of them do ask you to have a real connection to the place, and where that applies we print it in the requirements section below.
Every figure here is read from our registrar, not typed into this page, and is the total for one registration term rather than a per-year rate. A name can still carry premium pricing set by its registry - the amount shown at checkout is the one that applies.
Our registrar has not published a registrant rule for .cologne, so we will not claim there is none - "not published" and "no requirements" are different statements and only one of them is ours to make. What we collect and submit is the standard contact set, and our registrar lists .cologne as one it will register for us today, so checkout is open. If a registry does turn out to want more, a registration can be refused - worth knowing before you build a brand on the name.
This is a read on one group of endings - cities and regions - rather than on .cologne alone. Endings named after a city, region, or continent - local by design. The price, the registry term and the registrant requirements on this page are .cologne’s own, read live from our registrar.
A business whose customers are local. Restaurants, trades, clinics, shops - if people travel to you, the address saying where you are is useful information.
One location of a larger business. A place ending is a clean way to give a branch, market, or regional team its own address.
Community, civic, and cultural projects. Anything that belongs to a place is described accurately by an address that names it.
A local guide, directory, or event. When the place is the subject, the ending is doing real descriptive work.
A place ending pins you to a place. That is the feature, and it is also the whole risk: if you move, expand, or sell to people who do not care where you are, the address either follows you awkwardly or gets replaced. Businesses that plan to grow past one city often keep a neutral main address and use the place ending alongside it.
Recognition outside the region is limited too. Locally the ending may be well understood; nationally it may read as unfamiliar, and people will still sometimes type the ending they always type. Own your name clearly and print it consistently.
Against the 49 endings we group under cities and regions, .cologne is the 23rd most expensive of them per year at $36.44 - the group runs from $3.49 to $87.49 a year. Our grouping, our registrar's live prices, compared per year so a multi-year term cannot flatter itself.
Included with every .cologne - never an add-on. More on WHOIS privacy.
Some names carry premium pricing set by the registry, well above the standard rate for that extension. Just Domain doesn't register premium names - search will tell you when a name is one.
The endings closest to .cologne on price inside cities and regions. Our grouping, our registrar’s live prices, shown per year so a multi-year term can’t flatter itself. Each one has its own page.
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Facts reviewed 2026-08-19
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