Simple, Transparent .tech Pricing
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First-year registration price
- ✔ Free WHOIS privacy
- ✔ Free DNS management
- ✔ Instant activation
Renewal
Standard annual renewal rate
- ✔ Auto-renew available
- ✔ Renewal reminder emails
- ✔ No hidden fees
Transfer
Move an existing .tech domain to us
- ✔ Adds 1 year on transfer
- ✔ Free transfer assistance
- ✔ No downtime
- ✔ Minimum length: 2 characters
- ✔ Category: Tech / Startup
- ✔ WHOIS privacy: Included, free
- ✔ Typical renewal: $34.99/yr
What Is A .tech Domain, And Who Is It For?
.tech is a generic top-level domain introduced through ICANN's expanded namespace program to give technology companies, products, and communities an extension that states their industry outright. It has since become one of the most widely adopted tech-focused gTLDs, used by hardware startups, software products, developer blogs, and technology conferences that want their web address to reinforce exactly what field they're in.
It's a strong fit for SaaS products, hardware and IoT startups, technical blogs, developer tool vendors, and university or bootcamp tech programs — anywhere the word technology is core to the brand's identity. Founders who can't secure their exact company name on .com often find it open on .tech, letting them keep the real name instead of settling for a padded or hyphenated .com alternative.
.tech doesn't have .com's decades of universal default trust, so some visitors will still assume ".com" when typing a domain from memory, but within the technology industry specifically, .tech is a well-recognized and credible extension rather than an obscure one. Search engines treat it identically to any other TLD for ranking purposes — visibility comes down to content and authority, not the extension. For a technology brand, the self-descriptive nature of .tech can also reinforce positioning the instant someone sees the address.
Pick .tech when your product, company, or project is technology-focused and you want the domain itself to say so, particularly if your ideal name is unavailable on .com. If your brand spans well beyond technology or you're prioritizing the broadest possible default recognition, .com remains the safer primary choice, with .tech working well as a secondary or product-specific domain.
It has become something of a default choice for hardware startups, dev tool companies, and technical blogs that want immediate category recognition — a domain ending in .tech tells a visitor what kind of company they're dealing with before they've read a single word of the homepage.
.tech Domain Requirements & Specs
.tech is open to anyone — individuals, startups, and organizations worldwide can register one with no eligibility restrictions or ownership verification beyond standard registrant contact details, and it comes with the same free WHOIS privacy and DNS management every DomainHost domain includes.
.tech Domain Questions, Answered
Yes, every .tech domain registered through DomainHost includes free WHOIS privacy protection by default, hiding your personal contact details from the public WHOIS database at no extra charge.
Most .tech domains become active within minutes of completing checkout. Full DNS propagation across every server worldwide can occasionally take a little longer, typically no more than a few hours.
Yes. You can transfer a .tech domain to or away from DomainHost at any time, subject to the standard 60-day post-registration transfer lock. Transfers to us cost $19.99 and add a year to your registration.
No. While .tech is popular with software and SaaS brands, it's just as common among hardware startups, developer blogs, IT service providers, and even coding bootcamps and university tech programs — any project where "technology" is core to the brand.