.credit Domains: An Ending for Lending and Finance Sites
.credit entered the root zone on 24 April 2014, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. No eligibility condition has been verified, and the ending is operated under the Identity Digital umbrella. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 8,460 names in the zone, of which 5,578 appear in the zone file.
The ending names borrowing itself: lending, financing, instalments and debt restructuring. So the rule reads — where your subject is money lent and repaid, the address states it in a single word. Where you are describing one particular payment instrument, the card, the .creditcard domain draws a narrower and more accurate frame. Try candidates with a domain name search.
Lending, credit broking and financial advice are licensed and supervised activities in most countries, and that duty arises from the work you do rather than the address you choose. No check of financial authorisation is defined on the registry side, so an address in this zone says nothing about whether its owner is licensed. When weighing up a finance offer, verify the firm's permission in the register kept by the relevant regulator; if you are the one providing the service, publish those details openly on your page.
.CREDIT Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 24 April 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Authorisation check Not defined on the registry side
- Registered names 8,460 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .credit domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
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.credit 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
$9.99 /year -
Transfer
$103.99 /year -
Renewal
$111.99 /year -
Restore
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Late Renewal
$20.48
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.credit Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .credit 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 .credit 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 .credit 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 $20.48 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 .credit 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
.credit Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.credit Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .credit domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.credit Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .credit Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Not to register it — no authorisation check is defined on the registry side.
Lending and credit broking are nonetheless licensed activities, and that duty follows from the work rather than the address. The ending grants you no permission; it only makes your subject visible in the address. To see whether a name is free, run a domain name search.
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Is your subject borrowing in general, or one particular payment instrument?
.credit covers lending, financing and the whole repayment story, which suits comparison tools, calculators and advice. .creditcard speaks only about the card: limits, statements, points programmes, instalments. They entered the root zone on the same day yet remain separate zones; details on the .creditcard domain page.
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Your trading name, authorisation details, the cost of borrowing and how to complain.
On finance pages, stating the total cost of credit, the number of instalments and the consequences of late payment is both a regulatory expectation and a trust builder. Because an application form collects identity and income data, an encrypted connection should count as mandatory — choose a certificate on the SSL certificate page.
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Use your organisation's name or the type of service, and keep numbers and rates out.
A rate or an amount inside the address goes stale the moment the offer ends, leaving you with a name you cannot use. A company name, a service type or an audience lasts far longer as a root. To try several variants together, use the bulk domain name search.
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At 8,460 registrations the zone counts as small, so names are not hard to get.
That figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, with 5,578 names published. Combinations of a company name and a service type remain widely open. Since the name will appear in legal documents, make sure its spelling leaves no room for argument.
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Begin by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
In finance the domain appears in contracts and disclosure documents, so keep the risk of downtime to a minimum by preparing the name servers in advance. The lock has to be open and sixty days must have passed since registration. Check the record with whois search, then go to the domain transfer page.
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