.coach Domains: An Address for Coaches and Trainers
.coach entered the root zone on 20 November 2014, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The ending covers sports coaching alongside life and business coaching. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 35,046 names in the zone, of which 26,523 appear in the zone file — roughly three quarters, so most registrations sit behind a real site.
In coaching the address is usually the person's own name, and that instinct is right: clients look for a person rather than a firm. The rule to follow is this. Put your name in the root and let the page title carry the speciality, because a speciality shifts over the years while your name does not. Where you work as a team, a practice name serves better. Try candidates with a domain name search.
Coaching is not a protected profession in most countries, and nothing on the registry side describes a check on certificates, accreditation or membership of a professional body. An address carrying this ending is therefore no proof that the person behind it has trained. If you are looking for a coach, confirm the awarding body and the registration number in that body's own register rather than on the site itself.
.COACH Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 20 November 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Certificate verification Not defined on the registry side
- Registered names 35,046 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .coach domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.coach 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$77.99 /year -
Renewal
$83.99 /year -
Restore
$164.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
Included With Every .coach 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.
.coach Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .coach 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 .coach 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 .coach 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 $11.12 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 .coach 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
.coach Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.coach Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .coach domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.coach Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .coach Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No — no check on certificates or accreditation is defined on the registry side.
Coaching is not a protected profession in most countries, so registration appears open to all. The consequence is worth noting: the ending guarantees no competence to a visitor, which makes publishing your training and certification on the page work in your favour. To find out whether a name is free, run a domain name search.
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Choose your own name and keep the speciality out of the domain.
A career coach today may be a team coach in five years, and a root such as careercoach leaves you stuck with an old address. A name does not change, so recognition accumulates behind it. Where you work as a team, a practice name fits better. To test several spellings together, use the bulk domain name search.
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Yes — the ending covers sports coaching alongside life and business coaching.
Club coaches, personal trainers and technical teams all use the address naturally. Which of them a visitor is meeting is conveyed by the root, and giving the discipline on the page rather than in the domain keeps the structure flexible. For a page with a booking form, see the SSL certificate page.
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Your training, the awarding body, how you work and the basis of your fees.
Since the ending supplies no verification, trust is built by the page itself; session length, cancellation terms and your approach to confidentiality belong in that picture too. You handle client data, so an encrypted connection is needed. Confirm the installation with the SSL checker.
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A transfer 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 start the move on the domain transfer page.
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Most likely yes — at 35,046 registrations the zone counts as mid-sized.
The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 gives that figure, with 26,523 of those names published. Where personal names are concerned the pool naturally stays wide; for a common name, combining first name and surname solves it. Make sure the result can be spelled correctly when said over the phone.
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