.club Domains: For Communities and Membership Projects
.club entered the root zone on 9 January 2014, and the IANA record names Registry Services, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 891,328 names in the zone, which puts the ending among the most widely used of the new generation and shows how far a single generic word can travel.
The word implies a membership structure, yet registration calls for no association record, member list or constitution. The rule worth applying is this. Where your site has people who log in, pay a subscription or meet regularly, the address says so at a glance. On a page that only sells products, the same ending promises a belonging that is not there. Sports clubs, school societies, subscription boxes and local associations are the natural users here. Try candidates with a domain name search.
.CLUB Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Registry Services, LLC
- Root zone record 9 January 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 891,328 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .club domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.club 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
$19.49 /year -
Transfer
$19.49 /year -
Renewal
$20.99 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$3.60
Included With Every .club 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.
.club Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .club 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 .club 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 .club 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 $3.60 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 .club 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
.club Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.club Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .club domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.club Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .club Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No — registration asks for no association record, member list or constitution.
Registry Services, LLC, the sponsoring organisation, defines no such verification. The word implies a membership structure, but that is not a condition of registration. Where a genuine membership community exists, though, the address sets the right expectation. Check the state of a name with a domain name search.
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Projects with people who log in, pay a subscription or meet regularly.
Sports clubs, school societies, subscription boxes, hobby groups and local associations are the natural users. A site with a members' area holds user accounts, so it calls for an encrypted connection — choose a certificate on the SSL certificate page.
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At 891,328 registrations it ranks among the largest of the new generation.
The figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. In practice that means single-word community and sporting terms have largely been taken. Combinations of a club name with a town or a discipline stay open; to try dozens of variants, use the bulk domain name search.
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What decides is whether the structure is closed or open.
.club points at membership, registration and belonging to a defined group, so it is direct for sites with a login screen. .community suggests broader participation, public forums and initiatives at neighbourhood scale. Where your club also publishes beyond its membership, running both can make sense.
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The process starts with the authorisation code from your current registrar.
The transfer lock has to be open, sixty days must have passed since registration, and your administrative email address has to work, because the approval link goes there. Check the record with whois search, then begin on the domain transfer page.
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With an encrypted connection, current software and a clear retention policy.
Member names, contact details and subscription records are personal data, so stating what you keep and for how long is both a legal duty and a matter of trust. If you want the members' area on separate infrastructure, look at the hosting plans.
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