A country-code ending. Its registry sets its own rules, and some of those rules are about who you are.
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.nz costs $27.09 to register with us and $27.09 to renew, at our registrar's own rate with nothing added. .nz is a country-code ending - a two-letter extension assigned to a country or territory and run by that territory's own registry. That matters more than it sounds: national registries set their own registration rules, their own pricing, and in some cases their own requirements about who is allowed to hold a name.
The ending is the part after the dot: the .nz in example.nz. Country-code endings were assigned from the international two-letter country list, not created for marketing, and each one is administered locally rather than under the single global rulebook that governs generic endings.
Two things follow. First, some country endings are used for their meaning - a business that is actually in that country, addressing people in it. Second, some are used purely because the letters spell something, with no connection to the territory at all. Both are common, but only the first is guaranteed to be allowed: a registry can require a local address, a local company, or a national ID number, and it can enforce that after you have paid.
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 .nz, 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 .nz 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 - country and territory endings - rather than on .nz alone. Two-letter endings assigned to a country or territory. Some are used as words - all of them belong to a national registry with its own rules. The price, the registry term and the registrant requirements on this page are .nz’s own, read live from our registrar.
A business that really is in that country. For local customers, a national ending is a trust signal a global one cannot buy - it says you are here.
A country-specific site for a larger business. A separate address per market is the standard way to run local pricing, local language, and local support.
A name where the letters happen to work. Some country endings read as words. That is a legitimate reason to use one, provided the registry allows it.
Reaching an audience that types the local ending first. In many countries people reach for the national ending by habit before anything else.
The requirement risk is the one to take seriously. A national registry can insist the holder be resident, incorporated locally, or able to produce a national identifier, and it can cancel a registration that does not qualify. Check the requirements section on this page before you plan around the name - where we know the rule, it is printed there, and where we do not know it, this page says so instead of guessing.
The second cost is geographic: a country ending tells everyone where you are, which is exactly wrong if you are trying to sell everywhere. And if the letters are being used as a word rather than a place, expect some of your audience to read the place anyway.
Against the 82 endings we group under country and territory endings, .nz is the 40th cheapest of them per year at $27.09 - the group runs from $2.80 to $520 a year. Our grouping, our registrar's live prices, compared per year so a multi-year term cannot flatter itself.
Included with every .nz - 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 .nz on price inside country and territory endings. 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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