.beer: An Ending for Brewers and Beer Venues
.beer was delegated to the root zone on 13 March 2014 and its current sponsoring organisation is Registry Services, LLC. Four letters and near-universal recognition do the work here: the address states the product after a brand name and fits comfortably on a label, a coaster or a sign.
It suits craft brewers, taprooms and beer halls, importers, festivals and writers covering the subject. If you run a physical venue, .bar foregrounds the place while .beer foregrounds the product. To weigh both together, a bulk domain name search returns them in one list.
.BEER Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Registry Services, LLC
- Delegated to the root zone 13 March 2014
- Typical use Craft brewers, taprooms, importers, festivals
- Eligibility No published registry restriction could be verified
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .beer domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.beer 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
$32.49 /year -
Transfer
$32.49 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$10.01
Included With Every .beer Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.beer Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .beer 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 .beer 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 .beer 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 $10.01 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 .beer 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
.beer Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.beer Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .beer domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.beer Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .beer Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No verifiable eligibility restriction applies. We could not reach a primary source showing that the registry asks for a production licence, trading permit or sector registration, so registration appears open. Brewing, importing and selling are themselves licensed activities, though, and those permissions are required independently of the domain. Registering a name grants no right to sell anywhere.
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The rule follows what you put first. If you sell or make the product — bottles, kegs, a brand — .beer speaks directly. If you have a physical venue and the point is tables, service and an evening programme, .bar describes the place. A taproom brewing its own fits both; in that case pick whichever flows better said aloud with your brand name.
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That is a matter of regulation rather than of the domain, and it varies by country. Many markets expect a site promoting alcoholic drinks to carry an age check, and in some it is mandatory. In practice a simple date-of-birth screen is common, but whether it suffices depends on your jurisdiction. Check the rules in your own country and in every market you sell into before going live.
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A brewery site at product-pages, story and contact scale runs comfortably on shared hosting. Label and product photography sets the load; compressing those and serving them at screen size gains more than a server upgrade. If you sell direct or run a subscription box, choose Node.js hosting or Python hosting by runtime.
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Yes. If you sell direct, the payment step requires encryption anyway. Even without sales, a newsletter signup, an event application or an age-verification form carries personal data that is unprotected over an unencrypted connection. Browsers flag pages served without HTTPS. Options are on the SSL certificate page; verify with the SSL checker.
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