.us.com Domain
American Identity without US Residency
Register your .us.com domain from just £25.00/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .us.com domain?
The .us.com domain combines American geographic identity with worldwide accessibility. Unlike .us (which requires a US nexus), .us.com is a third-level domain with no residency restrictions, run by 8 Inc. with CentralNic contracted for the technical registry. It's aimed at international businesses wanting to signal an American presence or target US consumers without needing a US-registered entity. Think of it as a commercial bridge between global registration and American branding.
Who should register .us.com?
International businesses targeting US consumers, UK exporters to America, and companies wanting American branding without US residency requirements.
Why choose .us.com?
- American identity with no US residency requirement
- Open to worldwide registration
- Sits under .com, so it registers like any .com name
- Good alternative when .us requires a nexus
Who runs .us.com, and since when
Registry data from the .us.com 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
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registered under the .com zone
- Registry operator
- 8 Inc.
- CentralNic Ltd provides the technical registry, inside the .com zone that VeriSign Global Registry Services runs
- .com delegated
- 1985
- The date belongs to the .com zone, not to .us.com itself
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no US residency or business requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £25.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .us.com is not a top-level domain at all
Start with the thing the marketing never says. us.com is one ordinary .com domain, registered on 5 January 1993 and currently paid up to January 2031, and a .us.com address is a name registered underneath it. There is no .us.com in the root zone, and nothing about it passes through ICANN's registrar accreditation the way a .com or a .uk does.
That is not a reason to dismiss it. Browsers treat us.com as a registrable boundary because it appears on the Public Suffix List, so cookies scope correctly and a name under it behaves like an ordinary domain in daily use. The registry operator, 8 Inc, publishes proper policies, uses CentralNic for the technical registry and routes abuse handling through Gen.xyz. It also states plainly that it operates independently, with no affiliation to the US government, to .us or to .com.
Eligibility is the selling point: the policies say there are no specific eligibility restrictions, where .us itself needs a US nexus. Terms run one to ten years. One rule is worth knowing before you buy: if the registry queries your details you have fourteen days to respond, and failing to may mean suspension or cancellation.
Is .us.com the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.us.com works well if
- You want an American-looking address and cannot meet the US nexus rule that .us applies to every registrant.
- The .us and the .com of your name have both gone, and a name under us.com is still free at a sensible length.
- You are running a campaign or a regional landing page where the address only ever has to work inside a link.
Look elsewhere if
- You want the security of a top-level domain. This is a name under somebody else's .com, so it depends on that .com being renewed and that operator staying in business.
- You expect an American geographic signal in Google. The address ends in .com, and Google reads .com as generic.
- You need to say it aloud. Dot U S dot com is three parts where a rival has one, and callers will drop the middle.
Eligible for the real thing? A .us costs less here and is an actual country-code domain. See .us pricing.
.us.com vs .us: which should you register?
.us is the United States country code. It sits in the root zone, Google reads it as a US signal, and it costs less here than .us.com does. Its one condition is the US nexus: you have to be American, live there, or have a real presence in the country. That condition is the entire reason .us.com exists.
So the ordering is simple. If you can meet the nexus, register the .us and stop reading. If you cannot, .us.com gives you an American-flavoured address without putting something untrue on a form, at the cost of being a third-level name under a private operator rather than a domain in your own right. Either way, most businesses in this position should hold the matching .com as the permanent address and treat the American variant as a redirect.
.us.com domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .us.com domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. us.com is a single .com domain, first registered on 5 January 1993, and every .us.com address is a name registered beneath it. That makes it a third-level registration rather than a top-level domain, and it does not appear in the root zone. In everyday use the difference is mostly invisible, because us.com is on the Public Suffix List, so browsers treat it as a registrable boundary for cookies and for site isolation.
No. The registry policies state there are no specific eligibility restrictions for applicants, which is the gap in the market the extension was created to fill. .us itself requires a US nexus, meaning US citizenship, residence, an organisation based there, or a real presence in the country. A .us.com asks for none of that. You do still have to give accurate contact details, and if the registry queries them you have fourteen days to reply before suspension becomes possible.
That is the risk you are taking on, and it is worth stating plainly. Your registration depends on one .com staying renewed and on a private operator continuing to run the zone, rather than on an ICANN registry agreement with a transition plan behind it. The current position is reassuring enough: the .com is paid to 2031, CentralNic runs the technical registry and the policies are published. Even so, keep anything that must survive a decade on a domain you hold in your own right.
Included with Your .us.com 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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