.pl Domain
Poland's Official Country Domain
Register your .pl domain from just £20.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .pl domain?
The .pl domain is Poland's country code TLD, managed by NASK (Naukowa i Akademicka Siec Komputerowa). Poland is Central Europe's largest economy and has nearly 30 million internet users. Polish consumers have a strong preference for .pl domains when shopping and researching online. The extension is open to worldwide registration with no local presence requirement, making it accessible for UK businesses expanding into the Polish market.
Who should register .pl?
Polish businesses, UK exporters to Poland, e-commerce brands targeting Polish consumers, and Central European operations.
Why choose .pl?
- Poland's official country code managed by NASK
- Central Europe's largest economy
- Open to worldwide registration
- Strong consumer preference for .pl in Polish searches
Who runs .pl, and since when
Registry data from the .pl 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
- Research and Academic Computer Network
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 1990
- Delegated 30 July 1990
- Who can register
- Open to any entity or natural person worldwide, with no Polish presence requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £20.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The .pl arbitration clause every registrant agrees to
Registering a .pl commits you to something most extensions never ask. The .pl Domain Name Regulations say that where a third party brings an action against you at one of the Arbitration Courts NASK works with, you must submit a signed arbitration clause to that court within the time stated in the summons. Fail to sign and the agreement terminates three months later. On this extension, ignoring the letter is the loss rather than a delay.
On who may hold one, the Regulations are open. A tenderer is defined as an entity or natural person, there is no Polish nexus anywhere in the document, and the final article deals expressly with a subscriber whose place of abode or registered office sits outside Poland, sending those disputes to the courts local to NASK in Warsaw. Foreign holders are assumed rather than merely tolerated.
The commercial structure is unusual too. Your agreement is with NASK, it runs for an unlimited period, and the maintenance fee is charged to the registrar, called the Partner, rather than to you. If your registrar's cooperation agreement with NASK ends, you have to nominate another within the time NASK sets, and during that gap the administrative and technical service is not performed. Buying a .pl through a long chain of resellers carries a risk here that the same purchase does not carry on a .co.uk.
Poland also keeps a long list of functional second levels, com.pl, net.pl, org.pl, sklep.pl, shop.pl and dozens more, alongside direct .pl. For a UK exporter the direct .pl is the one Polish customers expect, and the second levels are worth holding defensively at most.
Is .pl the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.pl works well if
- You are selling into Poland from the UK and want the address Polish shoppers filter for, without setting up a Polish company to get it.
- You already run a .co.uk or .com and need a country site with Polish-language content, Polish payment methods and Polish delivery terms behind it.
- Your brand name has gone in the crowded generic extensions but is still free under .pl, which is a younger namespace in most categories.
- You want a European ccTLD you can hold in your own name post-Brexit, which .eu no longer allows a UK company to do.
Look elsewhere if
- You have no Polish-language content and no Polish fulfilment. A .pl pointing at an English site reads as a shell and converts worse than an honest .com would.
- You expect your registrar chain to be invisible. If the registrar behind your reseller loses its NASK agreement, you have to nominate a new one inside NASK's deadline or the service stops.
- You would rather never engage with a legal process. A .pl registrant who ignores an arbitration summons loses the agreement three months later, whatever the merits.
Only testing Polish demand with a translated landing page? Keep it on the .co.uk until the Polish operation is real. See .co.uk pricing.
.pl vs .com.pl: which should you register?
Poland runs two layers. The direct .pl is what Polish consumers type and what Polish brands use. The functional second levels, com.pl among them, sit underneath, and com.pl is the one people reach for when the direct .pl has gone.
The direct .pl wins on recognition every time. It is shorter, it is what an advert can print without explanation, and it is what a Polish shopper scans for in a results page. com.pl earns its keep as a fallback, and occasionally as a defensive registration beside a .pl you already hold, so a competitor cannot run a near-identical address.
Both sit under the same NASK regulations, so the arbitration clause, the unlimited-period agreement and the registrar dependency apply to each. Choosing between them is about availability and how much you are willing to explain in a radio advert, not about rules.
| .pl | .com.pl | |
|---|---|---|
| Who may register | Anyone worldwide | Anyone worldwide |
| Registry | NASK | NASK |
| Recognition in Poland | The default | Understood, second choice |
| Availability | Thinner in common categories | Better |
| Arbitration clause | Applies | Applies |
.pl domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .pl domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYes, and the regulations were written with foreign holders in mind. NASK defines a tenderer as an entity or natural person with no requirement for a Polish address, company registration or local contact, and the final article of the regulations sets out how disputes are handled where the subscriber has its place of abode or registered office outside Poland. There is no eligibility document to supply and no waiting period, so a UK limited company can register one in its own name today.
Ignoring it costs you the domain. Where a third party starts an action at one of the Arbitration Courts NASK works with, claiming your registration or use of the name infringes their rights, you have to submit a duly signed arbitration clause to that court within the time given in the summons. If you do not, the agreement with NASK terminates three months afterwards, whatever the underlying merits of the claim. Treat any correspondence about a .pl name as time-critical and take advice quickly.
The direct .pl, if it is available. Polish shoppers treat it as the default the way British shoppers treat .co.uk, so it needs no explanation in an advert and no spelling out on the phone. com.pl is a competent fallback when the .pl has gone, and it makes a reasonable defensive registration alongside a .pl you already hold. Both run under identical NASK regulations, so nothing about the rules should sway the decision.
You have to nominate a replacement within the time NASK sets, and the administrative and technical service is not carried out during that gap. If you do not respond in time, NASK is entitled to terminate the agreement by ceasing to maintain the domain name, and it can suspend maintenance first. That is a solid reason to care who sits behind a cheap reseller offer on .pl, because the notice will go to the contact details on the record and nowhere else.
Included with Your .pl Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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