.contractors Domains: For Subcontractors and Trades
.contractors entered the root zone on 8 November 2013, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. That date places it in the first delegation wave of the new generation of endings. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 4,678 names in the zone, of which 3,503 appear in the zone file — a small zone, with most good names still free.
The plural is the clue: what this ending names is not the work but the crew doing it. So the rule reads — if you work under a main contractor and take on one package, whether that is electrical, mechanical, facade or landscaping, the address states your trade outright. Where you run the whole site instead, the .construction domain reads better. Try candidates with a domain name search.
.CONTRACTORS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 8 November 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 4,678 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .contractors 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.
.contractors 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
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$35.09 /year -
Renewal
$37.79 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
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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.
.contractors Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .contractors 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 .contractors 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 .contractors 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 .contractors 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
.contractors Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.contractors Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .contractors domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.contractors Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .contractors Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Not to register it — no qualification check is defined on the registry side.
The practical consequence is this: an address in this zone proves nothing about whether its owner is licensed. If you are the one hiring, confirm the licence number, register entry and insurance cover with the relevant public authority. To check a name, run a domain name search.
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Combine your firm's name with the package you take on.
A main contractor looking for a subcontractor searches by trade, so having that word in the address does real work. Adding a city helps on local jobs but dates the address as soon as you open in another region. To try several combinations at once, use the bulk domain name search.
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The packages you take on, completed jobs, crew size, insurance cover and contact details.
A main contractor decides on capacity: how many people, at what scale, over what period. Giving the year and size of reference projects answers that question before it is asked. A page with a tender form needs an encrypted connection — see the SSL certificate page.
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Often — they are separate zones describing separate things.
.contractors names the crew taking on the work, while .contact names the door through which people reach you. The spellings are close enough that mistakes creep in when an address is passed on by phone, so spell it out when you say it aloud. For the other one, see the .contact domain page.
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Plenty — the zone holds only 4,678 registrations.
That figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, with 3,503 names published. Most combinations of a trade and a place remain open. Before settling on a long address, check that it survives being read out loud.
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Begin by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
On site work the domain has often been registered by an agency or a former partner, so confirm through whois search that the record really belongs to the company. The lock must be open and sixty days must have passed since registration. Then continue on the domain transfer page.
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