{"id":10399,"date":"2026-05-08T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=10399"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:40:22","slug":"how-to-register-and-activate-a-pk-domain-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-register-and-activate-a-pk-domain-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to register and activate a .pk domain at Hostinger\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To register a .pk domain (the country code top-level domain for Pakistan), you do not need to meet any specific residency or legal requirements. Anyone can register these domains for personal or business use.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-registration-and-activation-timeline\">Registration and activation timeline<\/h2><p>Because .pk domains are managed by the PKNIC registry, the activation process differs from other domain extensions:<\/p><ul>\n<li>Registration time &ndash; It can take up to 30 working days for a .pk domain to be fully registered according to our partner Registrar.<\/li>\n<li>Activation status &ndash; During this period, your domain order will remain in activating status in your Hostinger account.<\/li>\n<li>DNS functionality &ndash; Your DNS records and nameservers should work as usual during this time.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-troubleshooting-dns-issues\">Troubleshooting DNS issues<\/h2><p>If your domain shows as active on the official PKNIC website but your DNS is still not working after the 30-day period, manual intervention is required.<\/p><p data-kodee=\"hide\"> In this case, please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583780-how-to-contact-hostinger-support\/\">our Customer Success team<\/a> so we can coordinate with the registrar to resolve the issue.<\/p><p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>During the initial activation process &ndash; any changes to nameservers and DNS will not be possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about registration requirements and the activation timeline for .pk domains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","category-specific-tlds-registration-requirements"],"hreflangs":[],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10399"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10407,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}