Who can register a .de domain?
Registration is $2.90 and renewal $4.07 a year.
Who may register
No local presence requirement, but a registrant domiciled outside Germany must name an administrative contact in Germany authorised to accept service of legal documents.
What it costs
| Registration | $2.90 / year |
|---|---|
| Renewal | $4.07 / year |
| Transfer | $5.10 |
| Smallest possible first bill | $2.90 |
Standard price from Porkbun. 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://www.denic.de/en/services/dispute-verfahren/authorised-recipient-for-the-service-of-documents/. Read on 2026-07-29.
Is a .de 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.de