.org domain registration in Pakistan

.org is one of the first generic extensions and has been in use since 1985. Public Interest Registry, a Pennsylvania non-profit set up by the Internet Society, runs it under a 2019 agreement with ICANN. Anyone can register one, but many readers still take a .org to be a charity, trust, society or community project.

Public Interest Registry (PIR) · minimum term 1 year · updated 2026-10-20

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 .org

  • Charities, welfare trusts and NGOs
  • Community groups, clubs and societies
  • Schools, madrassahs and student bodies
  • Open-source and volunteer projects
  • Individuals running a cause or campaign

A welfare trust in Faisalabad, a Karachi literacy project or a Lahore alumni society all gain from a .org: donors and volunteers read it as a cause, not a shop. The registry asks for no documents, so a group that has not yet registered with SECP or the Social Welfare department can still hold its own name from day one, and a one-year term keeps the first outlay small. We confirm availability first, register the name in your own name through a registrar, take payment in rupees by bank transfer, Raast, JazzCash or Easypaisa, and aim to file on the working day the payment lands. If you later want a .org.pk as well, remember PKNIC bills in two-year blocks and locks the registrant record, so a later change of holder needs paperwork.

Eligibility and rules

Who may register: Open to anyone, anywhere. The 2019 ICANN-PIR registry agreement contains no registrant restriction for .org, and PIR's Registration Policy names .NGO, .ONG, .CHARITY and its other family domains as the ones that must comply with it; .org is not on that list.

  • Term: section 2.10 of the registry agreement makes PIR offer registrars new registrations and renewals for one to ten years, and never more than ten.
  • Reserved names: Specification 5 of the agreement holds back two-character ASCII names that are not already registered, and keeps www, rdds, whois and nic for registry use. Many one- and two-character .org names were taken long ago (q.org and 3.org date from 1993, qz.org and jx.org from 1999), and Exhibit A of the agreement still lets PIR allocate remaining single and two-character names through its Phased Allocation Programme.
  • IDN: Exhibit A lets PIR offer .org names in 19 languages: Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Danish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. Arabic and Urdu script are not on the list, so a Roman-letter name is the practical choice for a Pakistani applicant. IANA's index shows PIR has published .org tables for only some of these, so ask us which your registrar accepts.
  • Expiry: ICANN's Expired Registration Recovery Policy requires a 30-day Redemption Grace Period after a gTLD name is deleted, and requires registrars to let you renew for at least eight days after expiry. PIR's 2013 contract appendix set a 5-day Add Grace, 45-day Auto-Renew Grace and 5-day Pending Delete; the 2019 agreement does not restate those figures.
  • Transfer lock: under ICANN's Transfer Policy (21 February 2024 version, which registrars had to implement by 21 August 2025) a registrar may refuse a transfer within 60 days of creation or of a previous transfer, and must apply a 60-day lock after a change of registrant unless the holder opted out beforehand.
  • WHOIS privacy: ICANN's Registration Data Policy (effective 21 August 2025) requires the registrant's name, street, postal code, phone and email to be redacted from public RDAP where the law requires it. Country and state or province are published; organisation shows only if the holder agrees, and city may be redacted.

Questions about .org

Can an individual or a private company in Pakistan register a .org?

Yes. The registry agreement places no restriction on who may hold a .org, and PIR's Registration Policy does not apply to it. You do not need to be a charity, though many visitors associate .org with non-profit work.

Do I need an NGO certificate, SECP papers or a CNIC copy for a .org?

The registry asks for no documents. We need your name, postal address, phone and email for the record, and we register the name in your name, not ours. A registrar may still ask for ID at its own discretion.

What is the shortest and longest term I can buy?

One year minimum, ten years maximum, for both a new registration and a renewal. Buying several years at once settles those years at the rate in force on the day you pay.

What happens if I miss the renewal date?

The name does not vanish at once. ICANN policy requires your registrar to let you renew for at least eight days after expiry, and once the name is deleted it sits in a 30-day redemption period during which it can still be restored for a restore fee set by the registrar. After that it is released and anyone can take it.

Can I write the name in Urdu or Arabic script?

No. The registry agreement's list of 19 IDN languages covers Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic-script languages such as Russian, and Latin-script languages such as German and Spanish, but not Arabic script. Use Roman letters, digits and hyphens.

How is .org different from .org.pk?

.org is global and open to anyone for one to ten years. .org.pk sits under PKNIC's .pk: PKNIC charges its fee in two-year blocks up to ten years, and it locks the registrant record so a change of holder needs a documented unlock request. You can hold both.