.cam Domains: A Three-Letter Ending Run From Monaco
.cam entered the root zone on 9 June 2016, and its registry is CAM Connecting SarL, based in Monaco. The registry gives general availability as 14 December 2016 at 10:00 UTC on a first-come, first-served basis, with the trademark claims period running from 7 December 2016 to 7 March 2017. That makes it one of the few endings in this group whose calendar is known from a primary source.
The registry states outright that no restriction applies: names are open to anyone and any business that wants one. Positioning is not tied to a single sector either — sport, photography, social networks, events, gaming and travel are listed together. Three letters is the real asset here, because it leaves room in the root and keeps the whole address short. Test candidates with a domain name search.
.CAM Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation CAM Connecting SarL (Monaco)
- Root zone record 9 June 2016
- General availability 14 December 2016, 10:00 UTC (first come, first served)
- Trademark claims period 7 December 2016 - 7 March 2017
- Eligibility condition None, according to the registry
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .cam domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 10 servers
.cam 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
$36.50 /year -
Transfer
$36.50 /year -
Renewal
$40.15 /year -
Restore
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Late Renewal
$8.03
Included With Every .cam 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.
.cam Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .cam 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 .cam 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 .cam 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 $8.03 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 .cam 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
.cam Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.cam Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .cam domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 10 servers
.cam Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .cam Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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One is an abbreviation, the other the full word, and they answer to different registries. This ending runs to three letters, stays open to a wide range of uses and is tied by its registry to no single sector, while .camera names photographic and imaging equipment directly. If you sell equipment or run a studio, the full word reads more precisely. For a short, flexible brand address, three letters win.
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The registry states plainly on its own page that no restriction applies: names are open to anyone and any business. No document, membership or declaration of sector is requested, and the ordering flow carries no extra approval step. Because general availability ran on a first-come basis, some short roots have been registered for years. Keep your candidate list wide and settle on alternatives in advance.
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The IANA record names CAM Connecting SarL as the sponsoring organisation; the company is based in Monaco. The project's own registry record showed a technical infrastructure provider in the registry field, which has been added to the correction list. The content here follows the legal entity given by IANA. You can separately check which registrar holds your name with a whois search.
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Bandwidth and latency decide it, because the load comes from the video stream itself. Serving video from a separate streaming service rather than straight off your own server makes scaling far easier without slowing the rest of the site. Where accounts and payments exist, an encrypted connection is mandatory. Install the certificate from the SSL certificate page and pick a plan on the hosting page.
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Yes, the extension is transferable. You remove the lock, collect the authorisation code and start the request at the new registrar; the name is expected not to have been registered or transferred in the previous 60 days. The website and email keep working throughout, because DNS records are managed separately. Run the move from the domain transfer page.
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