.ceo Domains: A Short Address for Executive Profiles
.ceo entered the root zone on 19 December 2013, and the IANA record names XYZ.COM LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The registry presents the ending as an address for the senior executive community, and the common pattern is making your own name the root. According to the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, the zone holds 13,738 registrations, which keeps the pool of names wide.
One point deserves stating up front: nothing on the registry site describes a check on job titles. The address makes a claim about identity without proving it, and a visitor still confirms the role from the content of the site and from company sources. Where you want a short address for a personal profile, speaking enquiries or investor contact, this ending does the job. Try names through a domain name search.
.CEO Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation XYZ.COM LLC
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Title verification No such process described on the registry site
- Registered names 13,738 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .ceo domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 10 servers
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.ceo 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
$121.90 /year -
Transfer
$121.90 /year -
Renewal
$121.90 /year -
Restore
$254.90 -
Late Renewal
$22.59
Included With Every .ceo 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.
.ceo Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .ceo 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 .ceo 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 .ceo 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 $22.59 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 .ceo 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
.ceo Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.ceo Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .ceo domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 10 servers
.ceo Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .ceo Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, it does not. Nothing on the registry site describes a check on job titles, and where a name is free the registration completes without documents. The address is a positioning tool rather than a credential. What convinces a visitor is the content of the page: the role, the company link and sources that can be checked. Backing the identity claim with the site itself is expected of you.
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People whose name arrives before their product. Speakers, advisers, founding partners and executives handling investor contact build a short, memorable address by making their own name the root. As the main address of a corporate company it works less well, because it ties the company identity to one person. Think early about what happens to the address when the role changes.
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A change of role is the only real risk. The name belongs to you, so the address travels with you when you move companies, which counts as an advantage. If you have been using it for company email, though, that flow has to move as well on the day you leave. Keeping company mail on the company domain and personal branding here separates the two cleanly.
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A verifiable link to the organisation comes first. State the role, the company name and the dates plainly, then point to an independent source such as a press release, a corporate page or an official record. Contact route comes second: giving a company email address rather than only a form raises trust. Install the page certificate from the SSL certificate page.
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The zone shows 13,738 registrations, so the pool of names stays wide. An uncommon surname is very likely free, while a common one usually works once you join the first name to it or bring in a middle name. To test several spellings at once, a bulk domain name search saves time and lines the alternatives up side by side.
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In full, and in one consistent form. Because the ending is short, people can mistake the address for an email or an abbreviation, so print it with the whole domain name on cards and in signatures, always spelled the same way. A second measure is holding the same root under a classic ending and redirecting it here, so anyone who misremembers still reaches you.
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