A .cards domain costs $2.57, then $31.41 every year

The first year of a .cards domain costs $2.57. Every year after it costs $31.41, which is 12 times as much.

What it costs to keep

From Porkbun, the cheapest of the registrars we hold a figure from over 3 years. One registrar's price is not a market rate, and a premium or reserved name costs more than any figure here — the registry returns the same answer for one as for an ordinary free name, so every quote is a floor.

What each registrar charges

The cheapest name to buy here is not the cheapest name to keep. Dynadot has the lowest first year at $2.50, and Porkbun costs less over 3 years. A comparison ranked on the advertised price gets this backwards.

Ranked on the 3-year total rather than the first year, and the horizon is printed because a ranking with a hidden one is a guess about how long you mean to keep the name. Registrars we hold no figure from are absent rather than shown as unpriced.

The cheapest place to buy it is not the cheapest place to keep it

Dynadot has the lowest first year at $2.50, and Porkbun costs less over 3 years — $65.39 against $66.92. Ranked on the advertised price, the wrong one wins.

Why the advertised price is not the price

A registrar quotes the first year because that is the transaction it is trying to win. The registry sets the renewal, and it is the same at every registrar that sells .cards — so shopping around changes the first year and barely touches what the name costs you by its third birthday.

That registry is Binky Moon, LLC, which holds the ICANN agreement for .cards and sets the wholesale price every registrar resells. Operators run portfolios rather than single extensions, which is why unrelated extensions land on the same figure to the cent — the tier belongs to the company, not to the word.

None of this is hidden. It is on the registrar's own page, below the number in the large type. dotsweep leads with it because it does not sell you the domain.

Are you allowed to register a .cards name?

Its ICANN registry agreement contains no Specification 12, the clause that carries community registration policies and their eligibility restrictions. So the contract Binky Moon, LLC signed puts no eligibility condition on .cards, and the registrars selling it are not withholding one.

Checked against the agreement itself on 2026-08-01, one extension at a time rather than assumed from a sibling. This is a fact about the contract and not a promise from the registry: a registry may add its own conditions later, and a registrar can refuse a name for reasons of its own. Premium and reserved names are priced separately from anything here.

Is a .cards name free?

Availability comes from the registry over RDAP, with a WHOIS fallback where a registry publishes no RDAP service. A throttled or unreachable registry is reported as unconfirmed rather than available, which is the one wrong answer that costs somebody money.

curl https://dotsweep.com/check/yourname.cards

Other extensions whose renewal is the real cost

Run by the same registry, and therefore priced by the same decision:

.casino .codes .credit .creditcard .digital .dog .gold .guru .investments

The rest of the set:

.baby .bar .buzz .feedback .fit .forum .host .lol .press .shop .site .space .store .vu

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