How to register an Icelandic domain outside of Iceland
======================================================

  By George Mandis <george@mand.is>
  https://george.mand.is/2014/05/how-to-register-an-icelandic-domain-outside-of-iceland
  Thursday, May 15th 2014

<p>I love my vanity URL: george.mand.is.</p>
<p>It was a birthday gift to myself last year. The problem now is I have to renew it every year. At least I know how I'll be treating myself for my birthday every year I guess?</p>
<p>Figuring out how to register it was tricky at first. Some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain">TLDs</a> only allow registration if you belong to a particular country or group. Originally I thought you had to be in Iceland to register a .is domain.</p>
<p>As it turns out… you don’t! The short answer to “How to register an Icelandic domain” is go here:</p>
<p><a href="http://isnic.is">isnic.is</a></p>
<p>If you're not fluent in Icelandic you'll want to follow the little British flag link in the upper-left-hand corner for the English translation. You'll need to create an account first but then you can register domains ending in .is. Last I checked it was 39 euros (About $53).</p>
<p>Now you can register ispenttoomuchmoneyonth.is and picsofmypen.is or whatever floats your boat.</p>

### 2016 Update

If you found this useful, please consider using my Hover affiliate link to register your domain: 

[https://hover.com/22ImSSJX](https://hover.com/22ImSSJX)

You can’t register Icelandic TLDs through Hover, but you can find [plenty of others](https://github.com/snaptortoise/route53-tld-list/blob/master/route53-tld-list.csv). 

If you want to learn more I suggest reading [this guide about buying and registering domains](http://firstsiteguide.com/domain-register/).