.no Domain
Norway's Official Country Domain
Register your .no domain from just £37.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
This domain has registration restrictions
Only organisations registered in Norway and private individuals resident in Norway may hold a .no domain, and every holder must have a Norwegian postal address. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .no domain?
The .no domain is Norway's country code, managed by Norid (the Norwegian domain name registry). Norway has one of the highest internet penetration rates in the world and a wealthy, digitally literate population. Norwegian consumers strongly prefer .no for local businesses. Registration requires a Norwegian organisational number or local presence, which keeps the namespace trusted and clean. For UK businesses, a local representative can handle registration.
Who should register .no?
Norwegian businesses, UK companies with Norwegian operations, oil and gas sector firms, and brands targeting Norwegian consumers.
Why choose .no?
- Norway's official country code managed by Norid
- Requires Norwegian presence (highly trusted namespace)
- Wealthy and digitally literate population
- Strong consumer preference for .no over .com
Who runs .no, and since when
Registry data from the .no 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)
- Registry operator
- Norid A/S
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 1987
- Delegated 17 March 1987
- Who can register
- Norwegian organisations and residents only; a Norwegian postal address is required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £37.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The Norwegian address rule that stops most UK buyers
Norid publishes the eligibility rules for .no and they are short enough to check against your own paperwork before you order. Organisations need an organisation number and registration in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Private individuals must be over 18 and registered in the National Population Register with a national identity number. Every subscriber, company or person, must have a Norwegian mailing address. No registrar can waive any of it, because the registry validates the number against the register rather than trusting a form.
There is one route that works for a British company, and it sits on Norid's own list of eligible organisation types: Norskregistrert utenlandsk foretak, the Norwegian-registered branch of a foreign enterprise. Register the branch, take the organisation number and Norwegian address that come with it, then hold the domain in that entity's name rather than the UK company's. Embassies and official committees have their own narrow routes, and Norid can grant a written exception to certain bodies filed under "annen juridisk person", but neither of those helps an ordinary exporter.
Quotas are part of the design. An organisation may hold up to 100 domains directly under .no, plus five under each geographic and each category domain. A private individual gets five under .no and five under priv.no. The namespace is meant to be used rather than accumulated, and that is a large part of why Norwegian consumers read a .no address as a working Norwegian business rather than a parked page.
If you are selling into Norway without a Norwegian entity, this extension is closed to you today. Run the .com or the .co.uk with Norwegian-language pages and a Norwegian contact number, and come back to .no when the branch exists.
Organizations must have an organization number and be registered in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Private individuals must be registered in the National Population Register with a national identity number. All domain name subscribers must have a Norwegian mailing address.
What that means if you are buying one
The mailing address is the clause people skip, and it is the one that fails a British order. It is not a correspondence preference, it is a condition of holding the name, and it sits beside an identifier the registry can look up in a public register. Sort out the Norwegian entity first and the domain itself becomes a five-minute job.
Who is allowed to register .no?
Only organisations registered in Norway and private individuals resident in Norway may hold a .no domain, and every holder must have a Norwegian postal address.
- Norwegian organisations
- A company or other body needs a Norwegian organisation number and registration in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities, and must carry on the business or activity that register records. Norid publishes the list of qualifying organisation types, and a body outside that list is refused unless it wins a written exception.
- Private individuals
- An individual must be over 18 and registered in the National Population Register with a Norwegian national identity number. Living in Norway without that registration is not enough on its own.
- A Norwegian postal address
- Every subscriber needs one, organisation or individual. This is the requirement that most often stops a British order, and it cannot be satisfied with a UK address plus a Norwegian telephone number.
- The UK company route
- Norskregistrert utenlandsk foretak, the Norwegian-registered branch of a foreign enterprise, appears on Norid's list of eligible organisation types. Set the branch up and register the domain in the branch's name using its organisation number and Norwegian address, because registering it to the UK parent will not work.
- If you do not qualify
- The application is refused before the domain ever exists, so this costs you a wasted order rather than a suspension months later. The applicant also signs a declaration that the registration does not infringe third-party rights and is not contrary to Norwegian law, and that stays binding for as long as you hold the name.
Rules taken from Norid on who can subscribe to a Norwegian domain name. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .no the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.no works well if
- You already have a Norwegian organisation number, through a subsidiary, a branch or a joint venture, and you want the address Norwegian customers trust by default.
- You sell to Norwegian consumers, who reach for .no ahead of .com more consistently than shoppers in most European markets.
- You want a namespace where every holder has been checked against a public register, which raises the floor on who your neighbours are.
- You need a handful of names rather than a portfolio, which is what the 100-domain organisation quota is built for.
Look elsewhere if
- You have no Norwegian entity and no plan to create one. There is no paid workaround and no local-contact service that satisfies Norid, so the application is simply refused.
- Cost matters and Norway is speculative for you. A .no is several times the price of a .co.uk, before the accountancy that keeps a Norwegian branch alive.
- You want every domain held by the parent company for group tidiness. This one must sit with the Norwegian entity, so a restructure becomes a transfer job.
Testing the Norwegian market before you commit to an entity? A .com with Norwegian-language pages will carry you until the branch is real. See .com pricing.
.no vs .se: which should you register?
Norway and Sweden sit next to each other and take opposite positions on who may hold their national extension. Sweden lets anyone in and then verifies the data they supplied. Norway will not let you in at all without a Norwegian identifier and a Norwegian address.
That difference decides the order of work. A UK company can buy a .se this afternoon in its own name. The same company cannot buy a .no until it has registered a Norwegian branch, which is a company formation exercise with a recurring cost attached, not a domain purchase. If you are expanding across the Nordics, the Swedish site usually goes live first for reasons that have nothing to do with the market.
Both extensions buy the same underlying thing: a country signal a generic domain cannot fake, in a market where shoppers notice. Whether the Norwegian one is worth the entity behind it depends entirely on how much revenue you expect from Norway.
| .no | .se | |
|---|---|---|
| Who may register | Norwegian organisations and residents | Anyone worldwide |
| Local address needed | Yes, a Norwegian postal address | No |
| Identifier checked | Organisation or national ID number | Holder data validated after order |
| Holdings capped | Yes, 100 per organisation | No cap |
| Time to first site | After a Norwegian entity exists | Same day |
.no domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .no domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNot directly. Norid requires an organisation number from the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and a Norwegian mailing address, and a UK company registration satisfies neither. The recognised route is a Norskregistrert utenlandsk foretak, the Norwegian-registered branch of a foreign enterprise, which appears on Norid's published list of eligible organisation types. Register the branch, then hold the domain in the branch's name. Budget for the accountancy that comes with keeping a Norwegian branch on the register.
Up to 100 directly under .no, plus five under each geographic domain and five under each category domain that applies to you. A private individual gets five directly under .no and five under priv.no. The cap is deliberate, because it makes bulk speculation impractical and keeps the namespace close to businesses that actually trade in Norway. A large brand portfolio that needs more than 100 is a conversation with Norid rather than with a registrar.
Not one we would recommend, and the shortcuts people ask about carry a real cost. Registering the domain in the name of a Norwegian friend, contact or agency means they hold it and you do not. The register records them as the subscriber, they can move it, and getting it back if the relationship sours becomes a legal problem rather than a support ticket. If Norway matters enough to want the domain, it usually matters enough to justify the branch.
It gives Google a country signal a .com cannot, because .no is a country-code extension tied to Norway rather than a generic string. That is a real advantage in Norwegian search, though it is one signal among several: Norwegian-language content, a Norwegian address and links from Norwegian sites all pull harder. What a .no changes most reliably is click-through rate, because Norwegian users recognise it as local before they have read the page title.
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