.builders Domains: For Trades, Teams and Contractors
.builders entered the root zone on 19 December 2013, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The plural noun settles what the address says: what waits here is a team, a firm or a trade rather than one individual. Because it dates from the first months of the new extension wave, some short and natural roots may have been claimed early.
No published eligibility condition could be verified, so contractors, renovation crews, roofing, insulation and turnkey builders all apply on the same terms. Do not confuse it with the sibling .build: that one is a verb and answers to a different registry. If your company name carries a plural identity, this ending reads more consistently. Test candidates with a domain name search.
.BUILDERS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Form of the word Plural noun — suggests a team or a firm
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .builders domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.builders 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
$7.99 /year -
Transfer
$35.09 /year -
Renewal
$37.79 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .builders 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.
.builders Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .builders 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 .builders 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 .builders 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 $6.73 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 .builders 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
.builders Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.builders Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .builders domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.builders Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .builders Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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The plural makes a promise here: the visitor expects a team. For a sole trader that can leave an impression larger than the business, and the gap shows up in the first conversation. If you intend to grow a crew, the name is the forward-looking choice. Otherwise a singular or verb-form ending reads more honestly and keeps customer expectations where they belong.
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No published eligibility condition could be verified; the name appears open on a first-come basis. No building contractor's authorisation, chamber registration or company extract is requested, and the ordering flow carries no extra approval step. Authorisations for carrying out construction work, however, vary by country and have nothing to do with the domain. Keep the two tracks separate.
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Resize images before publishing and compress them in a modern format. Site photographs usually come straight from a phone, and a single page can accumulate dozens of high-resolution files, which multiplies load time on a mobile connection. Paginate the gallery, use small previews and leave caching on. Compare capacity options on the hosting page.
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According to the project's registry data, privacy service is supported on this extension. That means registrant contact details can be masked in public lookups. If you register as a sole trader, the option is useful for keeping a home address out of view. After registration, check what is actually published with a whois search.
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Yes, the extension is transferable. You remove the lock at the current registrar, collect the authorisation code and start the request at the new one; the name is expected not to have been registered or transferred in the previous 60 days. The site stays reachable throughout, because DNS records are independent of the transfer. Run it from the domain transfer page.
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