.care Domains: Health, Caregiving and Charity Work
.care entered the root zone on 17 April 2014, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The word means looking after someone, and health services, elderly and childcare, pet care, charities and customer support all gather under it. According to the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, the extension holds 58,998 registrations, putting it clearly ahead of its neighbours starting with the same letter.
No published eligibility condition could be verified, so a clinic and a volunteer association apply on the same terms. What really matters here is not the ending but the data you gather: a booking form carries a name, a phone number and often a medical note. Over an unencrypted connection those details travel in the open, so install the certificate before the site goes live. Set it up from the SSL certificate page and test candidates with a domain name search.
.CARE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone record 17 April 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 58,998 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Fields of the word Health, elderly and childcare, pet care, charity
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .care domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.care 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
$21.99 /year -
Transfer
$44.19 /year -
Renewal
$47.59 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .care 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.
.care Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .care 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 .care 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 .care 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 .care 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
.care Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.care Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .care domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.care Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .care Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No published eligibility condition could be verified; the name appears open on a first-come basis. No licence, chamber registration or professional certificate is requested, and the ordering flow carries no extra approval step. Providing healthcare, running a care home or looking after children, on the other hand, is licensed and inspected in most countries. That obligation follows from the activity; holding the name replaces no permission.
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The word gathers every field built on looking after someone. Clinics and dental practices, elderly care, children's clubs, boarding kennels, charities and customer support desks come first among them. What they share is that the service is directed at a person or an animal. That wide frame looks like an advantage, yet with an empty root the address never says which kind of care you mean.
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Pick the caring word to name a service and the infant word to name a product. For a nursery, a childminder marketplace or day care, this ending states the work directly, while a shop selling baby goods sits better on .baby. Holding both and redirecting one to the other is a common route as well, since it keeps your root name secured on either side.
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An encrypted connection is the first requirement and cannot wait. The form collects a name, a phone number, a date of birth and often a description of symptoms; without a certificate those fields travel as plain text. The second step is cutting fields: never ask for a diagnosis in a web form, take it in the consultation instead. Verify the installation with an SSL checker.
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According to the project's registry data, DNSSEC is supported on this extension. It signs DNS answers so that forged replies become detectable, and on a site directing patients or donors that layer helps keep a visitor from landing on a false copy. You enable it through your DNS provider, and it requires no change to the domain name itself.
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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. Where bookings and enquiries run on the same name, time the move for a weekend or a closing day. Run it from the domain transfer page.
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