.corsica Domains: A Regional Ending With a Nexus Rule
.corsica entered the root zone on 23 April 2015, and the IANA record names Collectivité de Corse as the sponsoring organisation — the registry is not a company but the island's own public authority. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 2,705 names in the zone, of which 2,364 appear in the zone file.
A zone file share of 87 per cent tells its own story: names here are used rather than parked, and the eligibility rule is why. So the rule reads — if you live on the island, run a business there, or your family and history tie you to it, this address states belonging in one word. Without such a tie, look elsewhere; you can compare alternatives through a domain name search.
Under the registry's own criteria an applicant must fall into one of four cases: an organisation with a head office or branch on the island; an organisation based off the island registering defensively to protect its trademark; an individual resident at a valid Corsican address; or a person with a direct or indirect connection to Corsica, whether economic, social, cultural, familial or historical. In that last category the connection must be evidenced. The registry also advises registrants who build a website to keep at least one page in the Corsican language — a recommendation rather than an obligation.
.CORSICA Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Collectivité de Corse (public authority)
- Root zone record 23 April 2015
- Eligibility condition Residence, business or evidenced personal tie to Corsica
- Language guidance One page in Corsican recommended
- Registered names 2,705 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .corsica domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.corsica 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
$34.90 /year -
Transfer
$36.39 /year -
Renewal
$39.19 /year -
Restore
$83.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.70
Included With Every .corsica 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.
.corsica Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .corsica 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 .corsica 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 .corsica 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 $7.70 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 .corsica 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
.corsica Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.corsica Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .corsica domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.corsica Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .corsica Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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People and organisations with a tie to Corsica.
Organisations with a head office or branch on the island, individuals resident there, off-island organisations registering defensively to protect a trademark, and people with an economic, social, cultural, familial or historical connection to the island all qualify. The last group is asked to evidence that connection. Try candidates with a domain name search.
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No — residence is only one of four routes to eligibility.
Without an address on the island your business may still hold a branch there, or your family and background may supply the tie. That last door, opened for the diaspora, is defined explicitly to cover Corsicans living away from the island. What decides the case is not where you live but whether the connection can be evidenced.
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It is not compulsory, but the registry recommends it in plain terms.
The guidance runs like this: if you build a site, prepare at least one page in Corsican and keep it current. Doing so matches the cultural purpose behind the ending and lands well with local visitors. On a multilingual site, treating it as its own section keeps the translation workload contained.
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Both carry a place name, yet on restriction they sit at opposite ends.
.corsica asks for a tie to the island, and diaspora applicants must evidence it. In .cymru the registry's own registration policy contains no eligibility or residence condition at all; the address makes a geographic association, not a legal gate. For the comparison, see the .cymru domain page.
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Few are — 87 per cent of registrations appear in the zone file.
According to the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, 2,364 of 2,705 names are published. That share is among the highest in this group and follows directly from the eligibility rule: registering in bulk for resale is not workable here. To check whether a name is genuinely in use, run a whois search.
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Begin by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
Your eligibility status stays with the record through the move, so no fresh application is needed. The lock must be open and sixty days must have passed since registration. If your business address or place of residence has changed, bring the registration data up to date first, then continue on the domain transfer page.
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