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Register Your .or.ke Domain for Kshs 1,000
Make the organisation easy to find
An address for your organisation’s work in Kenya
People visiting a community project need clear answers: what you do, where you work and how to reach you. Put those answers at an .or.ke address. This Kenyan category is intended for not-for-profit organisations, giving your reports, project updates and contact information a consistent home.
- Record the organisation that will hold the registration.
- Choose an address that matches the name supporters know.
- Agree who may approve changes to the registration.
Set a realistic address budget
.or.ke Domain Pricing
Choose the charge that applies to your project: registering a new name, renewing one you hold or moving it from another registrar. Keep website and email costs in their own budget lines.
Apply for the selected name
Kshs 1,000 / first year
Apply for a suitable available name before adding it to project materials.
Check .or.ke availabilityMaintain the registration
Kshs 1,500 / year
Allow for another registration period when preparing the organisation’s operating budget.
Explore registration costsTransfer your existing name
Kshs 1,000 / transfer
Retain the address supporters know while moving its domain administration.
Move your existing .or.keCheck the final order for the selected name, registration period and complete amount due.
Compare endings for different purposes
Compare Kenya Domain Prices
The right category reflects the applicant. An organisation’s nonprofit work, a commercial business and an educational institution may need different endings even when their websites look similar.
| .or.ke | Other | Kshs 1,000 (standard) | Kshs 1,500 | Kshs 1,000 | 90 days | N/A |
| .co.ke | Other | Kshs 999 (standard) | Kshs 1,500 | Kshs 1,000 | 90 days | N/A |
| .ac.ke | Other | Kshs 199 (standard) | Kshs 1,500 | Kshs 1,000 | 90 days | N/A |
| .sc.ke | Other | Kshs 199 (standard) | Kshs 1,500 | Kshs 1,000 | 90 days | N/A |
| .ne.ke | Other | Kshs 1,000 (standard) | Kshs 1,500 | Kshs 1,000 | 90 days | N/A |
No domain extensions match your search.
Find a category that reflects your work
.or.ke Domain Alternatives
Review the intended audience and conditions of each linked ending. If your first choice is taken, a clear variation of the organisation’s name may be easier for supporters than an unrelated suffix.
Help visitors act on what they read
Practical uses for a .or.ke domain
A useful project website answers questions and points people towards a responsible contact. These illustrative uses describe content you might publish, not verified organisations or available names.
Find Your .or.keProject updates
Show what the organisation does
Describe a project’s purpose, location and current activities. Use dated updates so a visitor can distinguish ongoing work from a completed programme.
Public reporting
Give readers access to your reports
Publish the reports your organisation is authorised to share. Explain the period each covers, and offer an accessible way to ask questions about the work.
Volunteer enquiries
Help people find a useful next step
Set out current volunteering roles, who can apply and where enquiries should go. Remove closed opportunities instead of leaving applicants waiting for an answer.
Community contacts
Keep contact information consistent
Use the same official address in notices, partner materials and public listings. Assign somebody to review phone numbers and contact forms when a project changes staff.
Maintain the routes into your project
.or.ke Domain Management, Made Simple
Connect the domain to the services your organisation selects. Keep the website, mailbox and DNS provider details in a handover record that authorised staff can find.
Configure service records
Use the website platform’s supplied destination and test the address from a phone.
Choose the DNS host
Keep a copy of the organisation’s zone before changing the provider that answers DNS requests.
Keep the payment owner informed
Agree who receives renewal notices and who can approve the project’s payment.
Prepare a registrar handover
Retain the current registration details and request the code needed for a registrar handover.
Keep control with the organisation
Why Choose Truehost for Your .or.ke Domain?
A lasting project address needs more than an initial purchase. Record who holds it, who manages it and how the account will be recovered when people or funding arrangements change.
Keep administration together
Keep the name with the organisation’s other important service records, rather than relying on a volunteer’s memory.
Your registration charge
Kshs 1,000 / first year
Check the first registration amount before printing the address on campaign or partner materials.
Budget for the next renewal
Kshs 1,500 / year
Plan the next payment as an operating expense, including periods between funding rounds.
Connect the right records
Ask each provider for its required records and retain a copy. Changing the public website should not silently change how the office receives email.
Prepare an orderly transfer
Use the authorisation process when bringing an existing name to us. Keep its current destinations unless you are also planning a service move.
Retain account access
Give authorised people a documented way to recover the account. Review access whenever an agency engagement or volunteer role ends.
Email for your team
Set up the inboxes needed to answer enquiries and coordinate work. See mailbox plans.
A website for your audience
Choose a way to publish reports, activities and contact details. See website-building plans.
A domain is one part of the project’s online setup. Review any additional service and its ongoing charge before committing funds.
Publish useful project information
How to Use Your .or.ke Domain
Make the public site a place to learn about the organisation’s actual work. Link to approved reports, explain how to get involved and make sure somebody receives messages sent through each contact route.
- Introduce the organisation and its work at the main public address.
- Receive partnership enquiries through the project office’s mailbox.
- Give the organisation’s own programmes clear internal destinations.
Give programmes a clear place online
Plan Your .or.ke Addresses
The main address can introduce the organisation while internal prefixes lead to its own programmes and services. Keep these destinations under the registered holder’s control.
| Visitor’s task | Illustrative Destination | What Visitors Find |
|---|---|---|
| Read about the organisation | carecircle.or.ke | Activities, location and responsible public contacts |
| Review a programme | projects.carecircle.or.ke | Approved information about the organisation’s own projects |
| Find a volunteer role | volunteers.carecircle.or.ke | Current opportunities and a maintained enquiry route |
| Contact the project office | [email protected] | Messages received by the organisation’s chosen email service |
Build around the team’s actual needs
Build More Around Your .or.ke Domain
Start with the pages and communication routes you can maintain. Add hosting, mailboxes and other tools to support that work rather than buying services without an assigned purpose.
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From Kshs 40.name.ng · first-year registrationExplore Domains →Agree a spelling supporters can use
.or.ke Domain Name Rules
KeNIC’s label rules allow 2–63 ASCII characters before .or.ke. Use letters and digits, adding hyphens only inside the name. Check the spelling in print and aloud before putting it on public material.
Accepted in an .or.ke name
Not accepted
Review example labels
| Candidate | Label review | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
carecircle.or.ke | Ordinary label | A letter-based project identity that can appear on reports and letterheads. |
route-works24.or.ke | Ordinary label | The format allows these characters; consider whether the digits will date the project. |
-carecircle.or.ke | Unsuitable hostname label | Remove the initial hyphen before asking for this organisation’s registration. |
route_works.or.ke | Unsuitable hostname label | The underscore must change before this can be used as the public address. |
Apply under the correct organisation
Your .or.ke Registration Checklist
KeNIC places nonprofits, NGOs, foundations and community-focused initiatives in this category. Provide the holder’s accurate name and contact details. The domain registration does not replace the organisation’s separate legal or regulatory obligations.
Information you need
Services and responsibilities to arrange separately
Before you register
Confirm the applicant
Identify the organisation rather than the agency building its website.
Review the chosen spelling
Review the proposed name for confusion with another project or rights holder.
Choose a recovery contact
Retain a recovery route the team can use if its own email is interrupted.
A dated picture of nonprofit domain use
.or.ke Domain Facts
The June 2026 CA report counts .or.ke registrations within the .KE namespace. The figures do not measure donations, project activity, legal status or the number of organisations publishing a working website.
- 2,154
- .or.ke registrations reported
- At 30 June 2026
- +32
- net quarterly change
- June minus March 2026
- 1.67%
- .or.ke share of reported .KE total
- Calculated from 129,140 total
Source: CA Q4 2025/26 report, Table 21, at 30 June 2026. Quarterly change and category share are calculated from the reported registration counts. Checked 19 October 2026.
.or.ke Registry and Registration Specifications
The registry reference distinguishes the domain’s requirements from the separate responsibilities of running the organisation and its services.
Visit KeNICRegistry IdentityCategory, holder and registry responsibilities
| Property | .or.ke requirement |
|---|---|
| Example registration | Illustrative registration under this category: carecircle.or.ke |
| Position in DNS | The organisation’s own label precedes .or.ke. This is a third-level registration in Kenya’s domain system. |
| Country namespace | The .ke ending identifies the Kenyan country-code domain. |
| Registry organisation | The operator responsible for the registry is KeNIC, the Kenya Network Information Centre. |
| Registry policy | The organisation agrees to the Third Level Domains Policy when registering. |
| Category purpose | Category for not-for-profit organisation, NGO, foundation or community initiative. |
Registration RulesEvidence and registration period
| Property | .or.ke requirement |
|---|---|
| Eligible applicants | Not-for-profit organisation, ngo, foundation or community initiative. |
| How names are assigned | A name is allocated after a successful application while it remains available. A search result is not a completed registration. |
| Permitted duration | The published category policy specifies a year. Review the period offered in the order and keep its end date with project records. |
| Registered label length | The organisation’s label must be at least 2 characters and no longer than 63; the .or.ke suffix is separate. |
| Character set | Choose letters from a–z, numbers from 0–9 and, if needed, hyphens within the name. Do not begin or finish with a hyphen. |
| IDN support | Use the plain ASCII character set stated by the registry. Accents and non-ASCII scripts are not included in those rules. |
| Capitalisation | Writing the project’s name in uppercase changes its appearance, not its registration. |
| Other suffixes | Budget separately for any additional ending used by the organisation, even if both lead to one website. |
DNS & Registry ServicesConnections, lookup and contact information
| Property | .or.ke requirement |
|---|---|
| Signed DNS | If signed DNS is planned, arrange the necessary zone and registry configuration with the providers managing the organisation’s domain. |
| Nameserver management | The selected DNS host supplies the servers to use. Preserve the organisation’s current website and email records before a change. |
| Registrant disclosure | KeNIC handles the supplied registration data under its WHOIS policy. Keep the organisation’s contacts accurate and request corrections when necessary. |
| Registration lookup | The registration lookup can help establish whether a domain is already held. |
Lifecycle & ProtectionRenewal action and registry policy
| Property | .or.ke requirement |
|---|---|
| Renewal deadline | Retain the address by renewing before its end date. The policy allows suspension after 14 days without payment, so arrange approval in advance. |
| Disputed registrations | Complaints about third-level registrations fall within KeNIC’s published alternative domain dispute process. |
Plan renewal beyond the current project cycle
What Happens If .or.ke Expires?
An organisation may still receive enquiries after a campaign closes. Retain the address while it is needed, and budget for renewal before staff changes or a funding gap makes payment difficult.
Active
Keep the holder’s contacts accurate as the organisation develops.
Renewal Due
Kshs 1,500 / year Assign the approval and payment before the end of the term.
Expired
If the registration expires, establish its status with the registrar without waiting for a website complaint.
Suspended
KeNIC’s policy provides for suspension after 14 unpaid days. Mail and web destinations depending on the domain may become unreachable.
Released for registration
Deletion may make the name available to somebody else. Ask about recovery as soon as a missed renewal is discovered.
Plan the address as an ongoing expense
Plan the Registration Beyond Year One
Review the registration terms and totals offered for the name. Agree the actual period in checkout and retain the renewal date with the project’s other financial commitments.
| Term | Total registration price | Regular year-by-year costRegistration + annual renewals | Savings | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | Kshs 1,000 | Kshs 1,000 | No saving | Search domains |
| 2 years | Kshs 2,000 | Kshs 2,500 | Save Kshs 500 | Search domains |
| 3 years | Kshs 3,000 | Kshs 4,000 | Save Kshs 1,000 | Search domains |
| 4 years | Kshs 4,000 | Kshs 5,500 | Save Kshs 1,500 | Search domains |
| 5 years | Kshs 5,000 | Kshs 7,000 | Save Kshs 2,000 | Search domains |
Select your term in checkout. Domain availability, applicable promotions, premium-name pricing and taxes are confirmed there.
Keep the address during an administrative move
Already Have an .or.ke Domain?
A project can change registrar while keeping the domain used by partners and supporters. Obtain the current account details and document the working service destinations first.
Transfer — Kshs 1,000- 01
Prepare the account access
Get the organisation’s approval and identify its authorised contact.
- 02
Request your EPP code
Request an EPP or authorisation code from the current registrar.
- 03
Submit the transfer
Start the transfer with that code, then check the name and the organisation’s contact services.
Before registration
.or.ke Domain FAQs
Questions from charities, community projects and the volunteers who maintain their websites.
Who is .or.ke intended for?
KeNIC describes .or.ke as the Kenyan category for not-for-profit organisations and NGOs, including foundations and community initiatives.
Choose it when that purpose reflects your work. A commercial trading activity may fit .co.ke better.
Does the domain give our project NGO status?
A domain is an online address, not an organisation’s legal registration. Keep any required incorporation, regulatory registration and permissions separate. Explain your actual legal status accurately on the website.
Will an .or.ke address guarantee donor confidence?
Supporters still need evidence about your work.
Publish identifiable contacts, dated reports and a clear explanation of how enquiries are handled. An address can make this information easier to find, but it cannot establish the truth of a claim.
Make the public site useful:
- Identify the organisation and the people handling enquiries.
- Date reports and project updates.
- Explain the next step for a supporter or volunteer.
Can we use the name before building a website?
You can apply for an available name while preparing the site. Keep the account and renewal details with the organisation. Connect the website after its text, contact routes and forms have been checked.
Who should be named as the holder?
Use the organisation that should control the name. A volunteer or agency may help manage the site without becoming its holder. Agree access and handover responsibilities before inviting people into the account.
Can our website accept donations?
Donation collection requires a separately configured payment service and the permissions that apply to your organisation.
The domain does not supply that service. Check the payment provider, receipts and support route before inviting donations.
Check a donation service before launch:
- Verify which organisation receives the funds.
- Test receipts and the donor support route.
- Publish the payment provider’s applicable terms.
Can different programmes use separate subdomains?
An organisation can use internal subdomains for its own programmes and services.
KeNIC’s third-level policy prohibits selling, leasing or transferring those subdomains to other owners. Keep programme access under the registered holder’s control.
How do we publish beneficiary stories responsibly?
Agree permission and the information that may be made public before uploading a story or photograph.
Avoid exposing private case records through public links. Assign an editor who can respond when a person asks for a correction.
What happens when a volunteer managing the site leaves?
Remove obsolete access and hand over the account inventory, service providers and renewal dates.
Confirm that the incoming administrator can recover the account. Keep the organisation’s only recovery method outside a departing volunteer’s personal inbox.
Keep a practical handover record:
- Who holds and manages the domain.
- Where the website and email are hosted.
- Who approves renewal and how the account is recovered.
Can our existing .or.ke move to Truehost?
Get the authorisation or EPP code from the current registrar and submit it through our transfer process.
Save your working DNS records first. Moving registration administration does not move website files, mailing lists or hosted inboxes.
How should we budget for the domain?
Allocate a renewal line in the operating budget as well as any separate hosting, mailbox or payment-service costs.
Put the payment date before expiry, and assign approval to a role that remains responsible when project funding or personnel changes.
| Purchase | Current amount | Budget entry |
|---|---|---|
| Register the selected name | Kshs 1,000 | Initial registration period |
| Continue the registration | Kshs 1,500 | The next renewal period |
What if the address no longer opens?
Check the domain’s registration status first, then check DNS and hosting.
If renewal has been missed, contact the registrar promptly to establish the available recovery action. Updating a website cannot restore an expired registration on its own.
Give your work a consistent home
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