.apartments: An Ending for Residential Listings
.apartments was delegated to the root zone on 5 February 2015 and is sponsored by Binky Moon, LLC, part of the Identity Digital portfolio. The job it does is direct: the address states what the page holds. In property that distinction is worth something, because "real estate" covers offices, land, commercial premises and homes alike — here the residential focus is carried by the name itself.
It makes a readable address for rental portals, building and residence management, short-stay operators and developers marketing a single scheme. A developer who wants to publish one building or project under its own name can open an address separate from the corporate site. If your portfolio is not residential, though, the word narrows your scope. Compare candidates with a bulk domain name search.
.APARTMENTS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Delegated to the root zone 5 February 2015
- Typical use Rental portals, building management, project marketing
- Eligibility No published registry restriction could be verified
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .apartments domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
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.apartments Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$57.19 /year -
Renewal
$61.59 /year -
Restore
$159.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
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.apartments Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .apartments domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .apartments address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .apartments domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $11.12 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .apartments returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.apartments Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.apartments Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .apartments domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.apartments Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .apartments Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No verifiable eligibility condition applies. We could not reach a primary source showing that the registry asks for a licence, company registration or sector proof. That means anyone from a building manager to an individual landlord can register. The expectation the word creates is clear enough, though: meeting a visitor who arrived expecting residential listings or a related service is your part of the deal.
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For most developers, yes. Publishing a scheme at its own address stops the listing disappearing among dozens of pages on the corporate site, and it gives you a name that is easy to say in advertising. Once the scheme sells out, you can hand the address to the building management or redirect it. The rule: if the project is marketed under its own name, a separate address earns its keep; if one listing page suffices, it does not.
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Imagery is what sets the load. With dozens of listings each carrying a high-resolution gallery, bandwidth becomes the dominant line, and compressing photos and serving modern formats makes a visible difference. A page-driven listing site runs on shared hosting. If you are building a portal with search and filtering, Node.js hosting or Python hosting fits better.
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Listing sites carry contact forms, applications or booking steps, and people type names, phone numbers and often identity details into them. Over an unencrypted connection that data is unprotected, which in a letting process is a serious exposure. Browsers also flag pages served without HTTPS. See the SSL certificate page for options and confirm the installation with the SSL checker.
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Look at the scope of your portfolio. If you only let or sell homes, this ending speaks directly and avoids a needless generalisation. If offices, land and commercial premises sit under the same roof, a broader word describes the business better. Where the two scopes run as separate brands, using two addresses is a common answer — each then has its own audience.
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