.com

.com is a generic top-level domain that originally stood for "commercial." Verisign operates the registry. The first .com names were delegated in 1985, and it is still the suffix people type by default when they guess a website.

It is not a country-code extension. Anyone can use it for a company, a blog, or a personal project. The trade-off is availability: many short dictionary words have been registered for decades.

In this dataset the cheapest first-year registration is $5.00 at Domain.com. That intro price is not the hold cost: Domain.com renews at $32.99.

The cheapest renewal is $10.18 per year at Spaceship. The cheapest transfer is $9.20 at OVHcloud.

Compare the registration, renewal, and transfer columns on this page before you buy. First-year sales are common.

Relative to many new gTLDs, yes. The cheapest .com renewal in this dataset is $10.18 per year at Spaceship. Cloudflare, Dynadot, and Porkbun sit just above that, around $10–$11.

A $5 first year at Domain.com looks cheap until renewal jumps to $32.99 — more than six times the intro price, a steep renewal trap. Shop the renewal column, not the sale tag.

Three-year cost here is one registration plus two renewals at the same registrar. Mixing the cheapest first year at one shop with the cheapest renewal at another is not a real checkout path.

The lowest figure in this dataset is $29.44 at Spaceship ($9.08 + 2 × $10.18). Cloudflare is $31.38 with a flat $10.46 each year. Domain.com's $5 intro becomes $70.98 over three years.

If you plan to keep the name, the renewal price is the number that matters.

Yes. .com transfers follow ICANN's inter-registrar transfer policy: unlock the name at the current registrar, get the auth/EPP code, and wait out the 60-day lock after a new registration or a previous transfer.

A completed transfer keeps unused time and usually adds one year. The cheapest transfer in this dataset is $9.20 at OVHcloud.

Anyone. There is no residency, citizenship, or business-license requirement. You can register for 1 to 10 years through an ICANN-accredited registrar.

Standard registry and ICANN rules still apply: keep contact data accurate, and trademark disputes go through UDRP. The name has to be available. .com supports DNSSEC.