Register a .site domain: who can, rules, price and transfer

A .site domain is an international extension that says exactly what visitors will find: a website. Anyone can register a .site domain, wherever they live, without a company registration or a local address. At LJPc hosting a .site domain costs €38.99 a year excluding VAT, with DNS management included, and you order or transfer it in the customer portal.

This article covers who runs .site, which projects it suits, the rules for the name and its use, what a .site domain costs and how to register or transfer one.

What is a .site domain?

.site is a generic extension, like .com and .online, so it is not tied to any country. It has been live since 2015 and came out of ICANN's programme that added hundreds of new extensions. How that wave of new extensions came about is covered in the history of domain names.

The registry behind .site is Radix, which also runs .online, .store, .tech and .fun. Tucows handles the technical side, such as the extension's name servers and the registration database. According to Radix, more than 1.9 million .site domains are registered (November 2026).

Because .site is a generic extension, ICANN's worldwide rules apply to transfers, expiry and disputes. ICANN is the organisation that sets the rules for all generic extensions.

Who can register a .site domain?

Anyone: individuals, freelancers, clubs, foundations and businesses, in any country. There is nothing to prove in advance, and an available name goes to whoever registers it first.

When you register, you agree to Radix's rules. In short:

• Your details are accurate. You register the domain with your real name, address and email address, and you keep them up to date. Radix can suspend or cancel a domain with inaccurate or outdated details.
• You use the domain fairly. Phishing, malware, spam, botnets, fraud and selling counterfeit goods are prohibited. In case of abuse Radix can block, suspend, cancel or redirect a domain, after which the website and email on that domain stop working.
• You respect other people's trademarks. Registering a name to harm a trademark holder, sell the domain to them at a high price or mislead their customers is called cybersquatting and is prohibited. Such a domain can go to the trademark holder through a dispute procedure.
• You are responsible for your content. What is on your website is your responsibility. After a complaint, Radix may review your website.

Which websites suit .site?

People all over the world understand the word site, and it tells them in one word that there is a website behind the name. That makes .site work for almost any kind of website, especially projects with their own short name.

If you register a .site domain next to your main domain, redirect it to your main site. That way people who type .site still end up in the right place; redirect a domain to another website explains how.

Google treats .site the same way as .com: the extension does not link your website to a country. Whether people in a given country find you depends on your website itself, such as its language, a local address and links from other websites in that country. This is described in Google's guidelines for multi-regional websites.

Do websites and email work on a .site domain?

Yes. Technically a .site domain works exactly like a .com or .nl domain. Your website, your SSL certificate and your email all run on it in the same way, and you can send mail from an address such as info@yourname.site. You can link a .site domain to any hosting plan, and with hosting at LJPc you can, for example, set up a WordPress website on it.

So that recipients can see your mail really comes from your domain, your domain needs three settings: SPF, DKIM and DMARC. With hosting at LJPc we set these up for you by default, on a .site domain too.

What rules apply to a .site name?

• Length. At LJPc a .site name is 1 to 63 characters long, not counting the .site extension.
• Characters. You use the letters a to z, the digits 0 to 9 and the hyphen, and the name starts and ends with a letter or digit. Looking for a name with an accent, such as atelier-rené? Choose the spelling atelier-rene.site: anyone can type it on any keyboard and it works in every email program.
• Reserved and premium names. Radix holds back some names. Short, well-known words are often offered as premium names at a higher price, and renewing or transferring such a name can cost more too.
• Two-character names. If you register a two-character name, such as a country abbreviation, you do not give the impression that you are connected to a government or a country code.

If the order wizard shows Premium domain, contact us for a name, you order that name through a support ticket: the button opens the ticket for you. How the rest of the wizard works is covered in order a website in the customer portal.

How much does a .site domain cost at LJPc?

At LJPc hosting a .site domain costs €38.99 a year, excluding VAT. You pay the same amount to transfer a .site domain to us, and a year is then added to your domain's term. The order wizard shows the price before you order, and the prices of all our extensions are on the domain names page.

Seen a .site domain somewhere with a free or very cheap first year? Compare the price for the years after that as well. With your domain you choose hosting for your website and email, DNS management only, or a redirect plan. Our hosting plans are on the web hosting page.

How to register a .site domain at LJPc

1. Log in at portal.ljpc.nl and click Add a website on the dashboard, or open the order wizard directly. No account yet? Create one first.
2. Choose I am looking for one or want to register one and type the name with .site, for example yourname.site. You see straight away whether the name is available and what it costs per year, with other extensions alongside.
3. Select the .site domain and then what it should do: a hosting plan, DNS management only, a redirect plan, or a server or hosting space you already have with us.
4. In the cart, check the Registration contact: the details under which the domain is registered in your name. For .site your regular contact details are enough; the cart does not ask for extra details.
5. Accept the terms and conditions and complete your order. We then take care of the registration with the registry.

All choices in the order wizard are explained in detail in register a domain and link it to your hosting. You will then find your new .site domain in the portal under Services > Domain names.

What LJPc takes care of for your .site domain

• Automatic renewal every year. Automatic renewal is on by default, so your .site domain stays active as long as your subscription runs. If you want to stop, cancel a domain or hosting explains how.
• DNS and DNSSEC. Your domain gets our name servers ns1.ljpc.network, ns2.ljpc.network and ns3.ljpc.network, and we switch on DNSSEC automatically. What that protection does is explained in what is DNSSEC.
• Your transfer code always at hand. On your domain's page in the portal, the transfer code is in the Authorization code block.
• The transfer lock under your control. With the Transfer lock switch you turn the transfer lock of your .site domain on or off yourself.
• Your details under your control. You update your domain's contact details yourself in the portal, as described in manage your domain's WHOIS data. If the domain needs to be registered to someone else, read change the owner of a domain: for .site you first approve the change through an email in your portal inbox.

Transfer your .site domain to LJPc

To transfer a .site domain you need a transfer code, also called an authorization code or EPP code. You get this code from your current provider.

1. Are your website and email moving too? Set them up with us first, because a domain transfer only moves the domain. How to approach that is explained in migrate your website to LJPc.
2. Request the transfer code from your current provider and have the domain's transfer lock switched off.
3. Open the order wizard, choose I already have one at another registrar, enter your .site domain and choose Transfer to LJPc. Enter the transfer code; the portal checks straight away whether the transfer can go ahead with that code.
4. Choose your hosting or DNS management only and complete your order. We start the transfer and you follow its status in the portal.

Under ICANN's transfer rules a .site domain is with us within five days at most, as long as your current provider does not reject the transfer. That provider may block a transfer in the first 60 days after registration or after a previous transfer, and after a change of holder a 60-day transfer lock applies by default. How to follow the transfer, what to do with an approval email and what to do if it gets stuck is covered in transfer your domain to LJPc.

Transfer your .site domain from LJPc to another provider

If your .site domain is moving to another provider, you handle the transfer code and the transfer lock yourself in the portal:

1. Open your .site domain's page in the portal.
2. In the Authorization code block, click Show to see the transfer code, or Copy to copy it.
3. In the Domain overview block, find Transfer lock and click the switch so it shows Off.
4. Give the code to your new provider, who uses it to request the transfer.

What else is involved, such as ending your subscription with us, is covered in get your EPP code and transfer your domain.

Keep your .site domain at your current registrar

If you want to leave your .site domain where it is and only host your website or email with us, the domain stays with your current registrar. You connect it with our name servers, as described in change your name servers, or with individual DNS records, as described in point a domain at another provider to LJPc hosting. Not sure where your domain is registered? Look it up with who manages my domain.

Expiry, quarantine and fake invoices

After its expiry date a .site domain follows the same ICANN rules as .com: first a period in which only the holder can get the domain back through their registrar, after which the name becomes available to everyone. How long each phase lasts and what the statuses in the portal mean is covered in expired domains and quarantine. If the portal shows Expired, Redemption period or Pending delete for a .site domain you want to keep, open a support ticket right away.

Received an invoice or renewal email for your .site domain from a company you do not know? Hold off on paying. Spotting a fake domain invoice explains what to look out for.

WHOIS and disputes

The public .site WHOIS shows which registrar a domain is with, its status and when it was registered and expires. The holder's name, address and email address are not shown: the registrar keeps those, and anyone with a legitimate reason can request them through the registrar.

If someone claims rights to a .site name, for example because it is their trademark, this goes through ICANN's dispute policy (UDRP), the fast suspension procedure URS, or the courts. You can report abuse of a .site domain, such as phishing or spam, to Radix through the Radix abuse page.

Not sure whether .site suits your plans, or is a transfer stuck? Open a support ticket and we will look into it with you.