What does a .dev domain require?
Registration is $8.75 and renewal $12.87 a year.
Technical obligation
HTTPS only. The whole TLD is HSTS-preloaded in browsers, so a plain-HTTP site will not load — you need a TLS certificate from day one.
This does not affect whether you can buy the name.
What it costs
| Registration | $8.75 / year |
|---|---|
| Renewal | $12.87 / year |
| Transfer | $12.87 |
| Smallest possible first bill | $8.75 |
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://get.dev/. Read on 2026-07-29.
Is a .dev 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.dev