.company Domains: An Ending for Businesses of Any Size
.company entered the root zone on 12 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 119,726 names in the zone — the largest zone in this group — with 91,014 of them present in the zone file.
The job of this ending is to stay general: it names no sector and no size, only the fact that you are dealing with a business. The rule follows from that. Where your brand name already implies the sector, this ending keeps the address short and avoids saying the same thing twice. Where you want the sector stated in the address bar, a narrower ending such as .consulting serves you better. Try candidates with a domain name search.
This ending differs from those pointing at a specific legal form, such as .inc or .ltd: registration calls for no company registration, no legal form and no verification of corporate status, and no such process is defined on the registry side. The address therefore does not prove that an incorporated business stands behind it. Before entering a commercial relationship, confirm the company's details in the relevant official register.
.COMPANY Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 12 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Register verification Not defined on the registry side
- Registered names 119,726 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .company domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.company 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
$6.51 /year -
Transfer
$20.79 /year -
Renewal
$22.39 /year -
Restore
$99.90 -
Late Renewal
$2.34
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.company Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .company 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 .company 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 .company 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 $2.34 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 .company 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
.company Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.company Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .company domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.company Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .company Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No — no register entry or legal form verification is asked for.
No such process is defined on the side of Binky Moon, LLC, the sponsoring organisation, so the address does not prove that a business has been incorporated. Before entering a commercial relationship, confirm the firm's details in the official register. To find out whether a name is free, run a domain name search.
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This ending implies no legal form, while those two do.
Because .inc and .ltd point at a specific corporate type, they can mislead when the structure behind the address does not match. .company stays neutral and open to every size, from a sole trader to a group of businesses. That also means you need not change the address when the structure changes.
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Make your brand the root and avoid repeating the word company.
The ending already signals that you are talking about a business, so a pile-up such as companycompany only lengthens the address. Where the brand name is short, the ending completes the phrase and stays legible on a business card. To try variants together, use the bulk domain name search.
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For short single words the pool is tight — at 119,726 registrations the zone is busy.
That figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, with 91,014 names published. Most generic terms have gone, while combinations of a brand with a city or a product name remain open. It pays to register a name as soon as you find it.
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Yes on a business site; even a contact form calls for it.
Browsers mark pages without a certificate as not secure, and that warning costs you trust with a prospect visiting for the first time. Choose a certificate on the SSL certificate page and verify the installation with the SSL checker.
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Begin by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
The transfer lock has to be open, sixty days must have passed since registration, and your administrative email address has to work. On corporate records that address often belongs to someone who has left the business, so update it first. Start the process on the domain transfer page.
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