An ending that tells people there's something to buy before they read a word of your page.
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.express costs $16.99 to register with us and $48 to renew, at our registrar's own rate with nothing added. The renewal is 2.8x the first term, which is the number to plan around. .express is a domain ending - the last part of a web address - that reads as retail. Someone who sees it expects a shop, a catalogue, a price. That is its whole job, and whether it fits you comes down to whether selling is the first thing you want understood about your business.
The ending is the part after the dot: the .express in example.express. Retail endings like this one were introduced to give shops a name that describes what they are, at a point when the obvious commercial endings had been fully claimed for years. In practice they behave like any other ending - the same DNS, the same certificates, the same email - and the difference is entirely what the word does in a reader's head.
What it does is set an expectation. A retail ending is a promise that clicking through leads to products and a checkout. That is useful when it is true and expensive when it is not: a consultancy on a shopping ending spends its first sentence correcting the address.
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 .express, 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 .express 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 - selling online - rather than on .express alone. Endings that say, before anyone reads a word, that there is something here to buy. The price, the registry term and the registrant requirements on this page are .express’s own, read live from our registrar.
A shop that is genuinely a shop. If people arrive to browse and buy, the ending is doing free explanatory work on every business card and ad.
A second address alongside your main one. Plenty of businesses keep their brand name for the company and put the store, a seasonal drop, or a catalogue on a retail ending.
A name that is taken everywhere else. A short, clean word on a fitting retail ending usually beats a padded or hyphenated version of the same word on a crowded one.
Anything where the category is the pitch. If your differentiator is what you sell rather than who you are, an ending that names the category carries some of that argument for you.
If you are not selling, do not buy it. A retail ending on a services business, a nonprofit, or a personal site creates a small misunderstanding you have to clear up every single time you say the address out loud, and that cost never stops.
Be honest about recognition too. Most people still assume a commercial address ends in the ending they have typed for thirty years, and some will type that instead of what is on your card. That is survivable - it is a reason to own your name clearly and print it consistently, not a reason to avoid the ending - but it is real, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.
Check the renewal before you commit. A .express registers at $16.99 for the first year and renews at $48 for each one after it - the registry sets both, and the second number is the one you live with. That gap is not a promotion on our side and it does not expire; it is simply what this ending costs to keep.
Against the 53 endings we group under selling online, .express is the 27th most expensive of them per year at $16.99 - the group runs from $3.49 to $560.99 a year. Our grouping, our registrar's live prices, compared per year so a multi-year term cannot flatter itself.
Included with every .express - 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 .express on price inside selling online. 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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