Domain extensions explained

• Generic (gTLD) — .com, .net, .org. Open to anyone, anywhere. .com is still the default people type
• Country (ccTLD) — .ke, .ng, .za. Tied to a country, and often to eligibility rules. They signal where you are, which helps in local search
• Regional — .africa for a business trading across the continent
• New generic — .shop, .app, .dev and hundreds more. Some are genuinely useful; most are a distraction unless the name is perfect

Everything we sell is on the [registration page](route:domains), with its live price.

Kenya’s registry, KeNIC, divides .ke into second-level namespaces with different purposes:

• .co.ke — commercial. The default for a Kenyan business, and the one most people type
• .or.ke — non-profits, associations and NGOs
• .ne.ke — network infrastructure
• .ac.ke — accredited higher education
• .sc.ke — accredited schools
• .go.ke — government, not available commercially
• .me.ke — personal names

Registering directly at .ke is also possible and shorter, though .co.ke remains what most Kenyan customers expect to type.

Some extensions are not open to everyone, and the registry will ask for proof.

.ac.ke and .sc.ke need evidence of accreditation. .or.ke expects a genuine non-profit. Several country extensions elsewhere require a local presence or a registered company.

This is a registry rule, not a registrar preference — no registrar can waive it. What a good registrar does is tell you up front what will be asked for and handle the submission with you, rather than taking your money and leaving you to discover the requirement later.

Tell us what you are registering and we will say what the registry needs before you pay.

Most businesses need one. Two is a reasonable precaution. More than three is usually money that would do more good elsewhere.

The one you use

Your country extension if you serve one market, .com if you serve several.

The one you protect

The other of those two, redirected to the first, so nobody else can trade on your name and so habit-typers still find you.

The ones you skip

Defensive registrations across dozens of new extensions. Nobody is going to mistake yourbusiness.xyz for you, and the registrations renew every year forever.