.bid: An Ending for Offers, Auctions and Tenders
.bid was delegated to the root zone on 13 February 2014 and is sponsored by dot Bid Limited. The word describes the act of making an offer, which opens the extension to two distinct contexts: a bid placed at an auction, and a bid submitted for a tender. Both go by the same word, and the address says it in one syllable.
It speaks directly for auction platforms, tender and procurement portals, second-hand marketplaces and quote-gathering services. Two neighbouring extensions are worth keeping apart, because the association travels with the address: .auction describes the sales format and sits in the auction-house context, while .bet points at betting and gaming. All three answer to different registries, so their rules are set independently of one another.
.BID Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation dot Bid Limited
- Delegated to the root zone 13 February 2014
- Typical use Auctions, tender portals, quote collection
- Eligibility No published registry restriction could be verified
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .bid domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.bid 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
$29.99 /year -
Transfer
$29.99 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.00
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.bid Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .bid 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 .bid 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 .bid 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 $7.00 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 .bid 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
.bid Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.bid Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .bid domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.bid Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .bid 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 an auctioneer's licence, procurement authorisation or sector registration, so registration appears open. Running auctions and acting as an intermediary in public procurement are licensed in most countries, though, and those permissions are required independently of the domain.
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One names the act, the other the format. .bid focuses on making an offer and fits both auctions and tenders; .auction states the sales format directly and sits in the auction-house context. The registries differ too: this extension answers to dot Bid Limited and the other to Dog Beach, LLC. If you work on the tender side, .bid covers more ground.
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The spellings are close enough to be confused, but the contexts differ. .bid belongs to offers — auctions and tenders — while .bet points at betting. Running a procurement portal, you would not want the betting association, and the reverse holds too. If you are protecting a brand, check both spellings, because they answer to separate registries.
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The load profile follows the closing moment. In an auction or a tender, simultaneous requests concentrate at the deadline, and the server has to absorb that spike. A site at listing-and-calendar scale runs on shared hosting. If you build an application taking bids in real time, choose by runtime — Node.js hosting or Python hosting.
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Because bid data is competitively sensitive. Amounts, contact details and company information entered during a tender or auction are unprotected over an unencrypted connection, and that is a question of commercial confidentiality as much as personal data. Account and payment steps require encryption anyway. Browsers flag pages served without HTTPS; confirm your installation with the SSL checker.
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