LankaRank .lk domain prices
Price guide
A .lk domain Your website's address, such as yourbusiness.lk. You rent it a year at a time, and it should always be registered in your name. costs Rs 1,000 a year for a name like yourbusiness.com.lk, or Rs 5,000 for yourbusiness.lk, at the LK Domain Registry's own prices. Registering for several years at once costs less a year.
name.com.lk
Rs 1,000
A year. The cheapest .lk you can own
name.lk
Rs 5,000
A year. The short address
name.lk for 10 years
Rs 30,000
40% less than paying every year
Active .lk domains
About 50,000
Up about 58% in a year (third-party count, 12 October 2026)
From Rs 1,000 to Rs 8,000 a year, depending on the kind of name. The registry sells .lk names in three everyday categories and charges less a year the longer you register, up to 11 years.
| Category The LK Domain Registry's own price bands. Budget covers longer names like name.com.lk, Economy is the short name.lk, and Standard includes both. | 1 year | 2 years | 5 years | 10 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BudgetA second-level name: name.com.lk, name.web.lk, name.org.lk and othersNot available for names in the Standard, Premium or Desirable categories | Rs 1,000 | Rs 1,900 | Rs 4,000 | Rs 6,000 |
| EconomyThe short name: name.lk | Rs 5,000 | Rs 9,500 | Rs 20,000 | Rs 30,000 |
| Standardname.lk plus name.com.lk, .org.lk, .edu.lk, .web.lk and .hotel.lk | Rs 8,000 | Rs 15,200 | Rs 32,000 | Rs 48,000 |
Source: the LK Domain Registry's price list. Names the registry treats as Premium or Desirable cost more. Resellers sometimes charge less for the first year: LankaHost sells name.lk for Rs 3,500, renewing at Rs 4,000. Compare the renewal price, not only the first year.
For most small businesses, either a name.com.lk at Rs 1,000 a year or a name.lk at Rs 5,000.
If your customers are in Sri Lanka, .lk (or .com.lk) says so. Google says country domains like .lk give "a strong signal to both users and search engines" that a site is meant for that country (Google Search Central).
A .com suits a business that sells abroad, and many web designers include one free for the first year. Either way, ask what it costs to renew, and make sure it's registered in your name. Which ending you pick matters less than whether customers can find your website and contact you from it.
Register it with the LK Domain Registry, or through a company that resells .lk names. Expect two to four working days.
Schools, religious places, banks, insurers and a few other kinds of organisation need a supporting letter. Most businesses don't.
Yours, or your business's, never your web designer's. The registry's policy says the registrant should be the person or organisation actually using the domain, and it doesn't transfer a domain to another registrant without a valid reason (registration policy).
If someone else registers it for you, check that you're named as the registrant and that renewal reminders reach you. Many website problems start with a domain nobody renewed.
Eventually your website and email stop working, and someone else may take the name. The registry emails reminders to the billing contact before the expiry date. After a grace period, the domain is suspended and shows a "temporarily disconnected" page; others can queue for the name, and it may be moved to a more expensive category. Getting it back means paying everything owed (renewing a domain).
It happens a lot. When we checked 2,061 websites listed in Sri Lankan business directories, 403 (20%) no longer existed because the domain had expired, 61 were parked or up for sale, and 17 had been bought by someone else and showed gambling or scam pages under the business's old name. Google's free business.site addresses fared worst: 53 of 65 were gone.
LankaRankBot checks for this on every free audit: an expired, parked or taken-over address gets its own warning. Check your website free.
Sri Lanka's country-code domain: the ending on addresses such as yourbusiness.lk or yourbusiness.com.lk. It's run by the LK Domain Registry, and like any country ending, it tells customers and Google that the business is in Sri Lanka.
A .lk domain costs Rs 1,000–8,000 a year at the registry's prices, and shared hosting for a small business website about Rs 4,000–20,000 a year. Many web designers include both for the first year only, so ask what they cost from the second. Checked 13 October 2026.
No. The cheapest is Rs 1,000 a year. A "free domain" offer usually means an address under someone else's name (such as yourbusiness.theirsite.lk), or a domain that's free for the first year only.
Two to four working days in all. The registry says approval generally takes one working day, you then have three working days to pay, and the domain becomes active within a day of payment.
Not easily. The registry doesn't transfer a domain to another registrant without a valid reason, which is why it should be registered in your own name, or your business's, from the start.
Sources: the LK Domain Registry's price list, registration policy and renewal pages (linked above); Google Search Central; a third-party count of active .lk domains; and our own check of 2,061 Sri Lankan business websites (method and figures). Prices checked 13 October 2026. See also website prices and SEO prices in Sri Lanka.
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