.com.ph Domain
The Philippines' Commercial Domain
Register your .com.ph domain from just £104.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .com.ph domain?
The .com.ph extension is the commercial subdomain of the Philippines' .ph country code, managed by the PH Domain Foundation. The Philippines has over 85 million internet users and one of the most active social media populations in the world. For businesses targeting Filipino consumers or the large Filipino diaspora in the UK and Middle East, .com.ph provides a trusted commercial identity.
Who should register .com.ph?
Philippine businesses, BPO companies, UK firms with Filipino clients, and brands targeting the Philippine consumer market.
Why choose .com.ph?
- Trusted commercial domain in the Philippines
- Reaches 85+ million internet users
- Strong BPO and services sector
- Connects with the large Filipino diaspora
Who runs .com.ph, and since when
Registry data from the .com.ph delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Country-code (ccTLD)
- Registered under the .ph zone
- Registry operator
- PH Domain Foundation
- The organisation that runs the extension
- .ph delegated
- 1990
- The date belongs to the .ph zone, not to .com.ph itself
- Who can register
- Open to registrants worldwide; dotPH publishes no local presence requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £104.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .com.ph costs and when it is worth it
Start with the price, because it decides this one and no other page will lead with it. At the figure shown here, a com.ph is one of the most expensive country-code extensions we sell, several times a .co.uk and more than double most of the country codes sitting beside it in this category. The namespace is run by dotPH, which registers .ph, com.ph, net.ph and org.ph, and the pricing reflects a market with one dominant supplier rather than a crowded one.
Eligibility is the easy part. dotPH's published registration terms set out no local presence requirement, no citizenship test and no documents to supply, so a UK business can hold one. What those terms do carry are commercial conditions worth reading first: premium names are registrable only through dotPH itself, are non-refundable and cannot be transferred to another Philippine registrar, and names sold as social media domains are transfer-prohibited.
So the question is not whether you can have one. It is whether the Philippine market is worth an annual bill of that size, and for a business with real revenue there it usually is, because com.ph is the ending Filipino customers recognise.
Is .com.ph the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.com.ph works well if
- You have real revenue in the Philippines. At this price the domain has to pay for itself, and com.ph is the ending Filipino customers recognise.
- You run a services arm or an office in the country and want an address local staff and clients read as established rather than offshore.
- You are protecting a well-known brand in a market where recovering a name later through a dispute would cost far more than holding it.
Look elsewhere if
- You are exploring whether the market is worth entering. This is the wrong extension to speculate with, because the annual cost is several times most country codes.
- A .ph would do the job. The shorter version exists, and paying for the longer one only makes sense if the com is doing recognition work for you.
- You expect the usual conveniences. Premium names cannot be transferred to another Philippine registrar and social media domains are transfer-prohibited, so read the terms before buying a name that matters.
Just testing the market? A .com will carry a Philippine landing page perfectly well until the revenue justifies the local ending. See .com pricing.
.com.ph vs .com: which should you register?
A .com costs a fraction of a com.ph with us and is understood everywhere, Manila included. What it does not do is tell a Filipino customer that you are here, and in a market with a lot of overseas sellers that signal carries commercial value.
The way to think about it is as an advertising cost rather than an infrastructure one. If the Philippine market is producing revenue, the annual figure is small against what it protects, and the country code gives you a geographic signal in Google that a .com cannot. If the market is a hope rather than a line in the accounts, keep the .com, put a proper Philippine landing page on it with local contact details, and buy the com.ph when the numbers justify it.
.com.ph domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .com.ph domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. dotPH's published registration terms contain no local presence requirement, no citizenship test and no documentary conditions, so a UK company or an individual can register one. What the terms do impose are commercial rules rather than eligibility ones: premium names are registrable only through dotPH itself and cannot be transferred to another Philippine registrar, and names sold as social media domains are transfer-prohibited. Check which category a name falls into before you commit to it.
The registry sets the wholesale price, and the Philippine namespace has long been operated by a single company, so it has had little of the competitive pressure that pushed other country codes down. Nothing technical justifies the gap: DNS resolution, DNSSEC support and the record types are identical to a .co.uk. You are paying for access to a namespace rather than for anything the domain does, so weigh it against what the Philippine market actually returns.
com.ph if the audience is Filipino consumers, .ph if you want the shorter address and your audience is used to it. The longer form is the older habit and carries the most recognition with mainstream Filipino users, which is exactly what the price is buying. If the budget stretches to only one and the site sells locally, com.ph is the safer choice. Every domain we sell includes free DNS management, email forwarding and one free 10GB mailbox, whichever you pick.
Included with Your .com.ph Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
Set up professional email addresses and forward to any inbox.
Auto-Renewal
Never lose your domain with automatic renewal protection.
Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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Secure your .com.ph domain from just £104.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included.
