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.sh

Saint Helena ccTLD, naturally fitting shell-flavored projects.

Type
Country code (ccTLD)
Registry
ICB Information Services
Introduced
1997
Registered
200,000+

.sh was issued for Saint Helena, a remote South Atlantic island. Its accidental match with the Unix shell extension pulled it into devops side-projects (curl-pipe-bash one-liners, install scripts) and eventually small CLI tooling brands.

The price is on par with .io's premium and the supply of short names is decent because mainstream consumers don't compete here. If your brand explicitly is shell-flavoured (a bash linter, an oh-my-zsh plugin manager, a deploy CLI), .sh still reads great. Otherwise .dev is more universal.

Best for

shell scripting tools, CLI projects, devops side-projects.

Renewal price across registrars $60–$90 per year. First-year promotional pricing may differ.

Best registrars for .sh

Three registrars we’d use ourselves for a .sh registration today, ranked by renewal cost transparency, support quality, and namespace availability.

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    Modern Namecheap sibling, ~25–50% affiliate commission
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