.coffee Domains: The Address Form of the Coffee Trade
.coffee entered the root zone on 19 December 2013, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. No eligibility condition has been verified for registration. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 34,862 names in the zone, of which 27,687 appear in the zone file — roughly four fifths are published.
This ending names a product and the culture around it rather than a place. The rule falls out of that. Running a roastery, selling beans, stocking equipment or publishing a coffee guide, the address reads correctly. Running somewhere people sit down, the .cafe domain sets the expectation better. Plenty of businesses hold both and redirect one to the other.
.COFFEE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 34,862 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .coffee domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.coffee 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
$17.99 /year -
Transfer
$42.89 /year -
Renewal
$46.19 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .coffee 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.
.coffee Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .coffee 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 .coffee 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 .coffee 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 .coffee 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
.coffee Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.coffee Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .coffee domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.coffee Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .coffee Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Decide by whether you sell a product or run a place.
.coffee speaks to beans, roasting, equipment and knowledge, which is direct for online sales and content. .cafe points at somewhere people sit, addressing a visitor who wants an address and opening hours. Details are on the .cafe domain page.
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Anyone can; no eligibility condition has been verified.
Binky Moon, LLC, the sponsoring organisation, asks for no business registration, food licence or trade verification. A home roaster's hobby site and an importing company apply on identical terms. To find out whether a name is free, run a domain name search.
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Yes, and the ending gives that trade a natural frame.
Selling beans, equipment and subscriptions matches what the address leads people to expect. Labelling, origin and shelf-life duties for food come from the law where you sell, and the ending changes none of them. A page taking payment needs an encrypted connection — pick one from the SSL certificate page.
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Make your brand the root and avoid repeating the word coffee.
The ending already states the category, so a pile-up such as coffeecoffee lengthens the address and makes it harder to remember. A town or district suffix earns its place where a business has several branches. To try variants together, use the bulk domain name search.
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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 be working. Check the record with whois search, then begin the move on the domain transfer page.
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Roughly four fifths — 27,687 of 34,862 names appear in the zone file.
Those figures come from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. The ratio is high, so the zone holds working businesses rather than parked names, which also means most neighbouring names are in use. It pays to register the one you want without waiting.
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