.io domain registration from Pakistan

Price and how to order

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Search any name on the availability checker, or go straight to the order form. We confirm availability before registering, you pay in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa, and the domain is registered in your own name.

Who uses .io

• Software houses and SaaS products
• Start-ups pitching to overseas clients
• Developer tools, APIs and open-source projects
• Freelance developers building a personal brand
• Browser games and side projects

Most of Pakistan's software exporters sell to clients abroad, and .io signals "tech product" to a buyer in London or Dubai faster than .com.pk does. A Lahore team shipping an invoicing API, or a Karachi start-up pitching to foreign investors, usually wants a short brand on .io. The registry sets no residency or document test, so we can file in your own name or your SECP-registered company's name through a registrar, confirm the name is free first, and take payment in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa. .io is not a PKNIC domain, so the two-year .pk minimum does not apply.

Eligibility and rules

Who may register: Open to anyone, anywhere. The registry's allocation rules (3.1) say an applicant for a second-level name "may reside in any legal jurisdiction". Only third-level names under the registry's own sub-domains (such as com.io) need an applicant resident in the British Indian Ocean Territory.

• Second-level names are open to applicants in any country (allocation rules 3.1). Third-level names under the registry's sub-domains need an applicant resident in the British Indian Ocean Territory and at least one nameserver physically in the territory (rules 4.1 and 4.7).
• Names must follow the DNS standards in RFCs 1034, 1035, 1122 and 1123 (rules 2.3), which allow letters, digits and hyphens with no label longer than 63 characters. Certain single-letter, multi-letter and numeric second-level names are held back and allocated by the registry in a controlled manner (rules 3.2). No IDN table for .io is lodged with IANA, so treat non-ASCII names as unsupported unless your registrar confirms otherwise.
• The fee covers one year for each new registration and one year for each renewal (terms 2.2). Fees are non-refundable, and no refund is due once the name is on the Register (terms 2.2 and 13).
• At least two nameservers, named in the application and already operating, are needed. For second-level names they may sit anywhere in the world (rules 3.3).
• The applicant and contacts consent to their names and contact details being held on the public Register of .IO Domain Names. If that consent is withheld or withdrawn, the agent who filed the name must end the registration (terms 3). NIC.IO does not verify the data, but false details can lead to cancellation without refund (terms 4 and 11.2).
• Names go first come, first served (terms 14). The registry may refuse any application, in which case the fee is returned (terms 11). English law governs, and disputes run under the .IO Dispute Resolution Policy (terms 5 and 22). The registry publishes no renewal grace, redemption or transfer-lock timings; those sit with the registrar.

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