Who can register a .cn domain?
Registration starts at $5.37 and renewal at $5.37 a year.
Who may register
Real-name verification is mandatory: the registrant must submit identity or business registration documents, and a registrar may not provide service without them. Serving a site from within China additionally requires an ICP filing.
What it costs
| Registration | $5.37 / year |
|---|---|
| Renewal | $5.37 / year |
| Transfer | $5.37 |
| Smallest possible first bill | $5.37 |
Standard price from Dynadot. Premium and reserved names return the same registry answer as an ordinary free one, so every quote here is a floor rather than a price.
Source
Read from the registry's own policy page: https://cnnic.cn/n4/2022/0817/c93-335.html. Read on 2026-08-01.
Is a .cn name free?
Availability comes from the registry itself 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. It is the one wrong answer that costs somebody money.
You can check from a terminal or from an assistant instead:
curl https://dotsweep.com/check/yourname.cn