| Namecheap | Hover | Porkbun | Godaddy | Gandi | NameSilo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $23.98 | $4.99 | $21.09 | $39.99 | $38.35 | $22.99 |
The average price of a .blog domain is $25.23.
The cheapest place to buy a .blog domain is Hover for $4.99.
.blog is a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) that was delegated to the Root Zone in ICANN's new gTLD expansion program on May 18, 2016. The registry for this domain is managed by Knock Knock WHOIS There, a subsidiary of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. Automattic purchased Primer Nivel's application and won the auction for the .blog domain, paying $19 million. ICANN approved the reassignment of .blog from Primer Nivel to Knock Knock WHOIS There on April 29, 2016.
There are several restrictions in place for buying the .blog domain. Firstly, due to the Name Collision Issues, 25 strings including .blog were not eligible for an alternative path towards delegation and will have to wait for more plans to be published before continuing towards delegation. Secondly, during the application process, Google received a GAC Early Warning from the representative of Australia and GAC Chair, Heather Dryden, due to concerns that the applicant was seeking exclusive access to a common generic string that relates to a broad market sector, which could have unintended consequences and a negative impact on competition. Additionally, Radix received a GAC Early Warning as an entire applicant, where each one of their applications was flagged by the U.S. Government due to an email address associated with the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation. It seems that Radix included correspondence with this address as a recommendation with each of their applications. These issues have not been fully resolved and may impact the availability or cost of registering a .blog domain.