.contact Domains: A Short Address for Being Reachable
.contact entered the root zone on 10 December 2015, and the IANA record names Dog Beach, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. It runs under the Identity Digital umbrella but is a separate legal entity from Binky Moon. No eligibility condition has been verified. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 15,547 names in the zone, of which 11,557 appear in the zone file.
What this ending does fits in one line: the address itself tells a visitor what to do next. So the rule reads — when your corporate site lives elsewhere and you want a single door for people to knock on, this is the name that goes on the card and under the signature. Freelancers, sales teams and one-off event pages use it the same way. Try a root with a domain name search.
.CONTACT Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC
- Root zone record 10 December 2015
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 15,547 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .contact domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.contact 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
$13.99 /year -
Transfer
$14.29 /year -
Renewal
$15.39 /year
Included With Every .contact 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 forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
.contact Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .contact 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 .contact 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 .contact 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 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 .contact 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
.contact Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.contact Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .contact domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.contact Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .contact Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone can; no eligibility condition has been verified.
Dog Beach, LLC, the sponsoring organisation, asks for no company registration, professional credential or trade check. A one-person consultancy and a multi-branch chain apply on the same terms. To see whether the root you want is free, run a domain name search.
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They are separate endings, and their meanings are not close either.
.contact is about reaching someone; .contractors is about the trades and specialist crews who take on the work. The spellings look alike, which is why they get mixed up, and a registration made in the wrong zone cannot be undone. For the other one, see the .contractors domain page.
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Usually not — this address sits beside the main site rather than replacing it.
Corporate pages, products and the blog stay on one address while .contact works purely as the door: a form, a phone number, a location and a booking link. Its brevity pays off wherever the name is also spoken aloud, such as a card or an email signature. To try both names together, use the bulk domain name search.
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Your trading name, a street address, a phone number, an email address and your response time.
Any page carrying an enquiry form processes a visitor's name and contact details, so stating how long you keep that data and who receives it is a legal duty in most markets. The form has to run over an encrypted connection — pick a certificate on the SSL certificate page.
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You can — the zone holds 15,547 registrations, which counts as mid-sized.
That figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, with 11,557 names published. Combinations of a brand and a city remain widely available. Since brevity is the whole point here, test that the name is spelled right first time when read out loud.
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Start by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
Because this address appears in signatures, on cards and under invoices, keep an eye on email forwarding so nothing drops during the move. The lock has to be open and sixty days must have passed since registration. Check the record with whois search, then continue on the domain transfer page.
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