.cricket Domains: An Ending for Clubs, Leagues and Fans
.cricket entered the root zone on 13 November 2014, and the IANA record names dot Cricket Limited as the sponsoring organisation. That registry sits in the Global Registry Services portfolio alongside its relative dot Date Limited, while remaining a separate legal entity. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 1,428 names in the zone, of which 988 appear in the zone file.
Cricket is among the most watched sports on earth, yet its zone is tiny, and those two facts together spell opportunity. So the rule reads — if you run a club, a league, an academy or a statistics publication, your club's name is very probably still free, and the address names the sport in one word. For a general sports site, look for a broader ending; try candidates with a domain name search.
.CRICKET Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation dot Cricket Limited
- Root zone record 13 November 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 1,428 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .cricket domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.cricket 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
$25.90 /year -
Transfer
$25.99 /year -
Renewal
$28.59 /year -
Restore
$119.90 -
Late Renewal
$5.72
Included With Every .cricket 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.
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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.
.cricket Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .cricket 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 .cricket 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 .cricket 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 $5.72 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 .cricket 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
.cricket Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.cricket Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .cricket domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.cricket Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .cricket Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No — no eligibility condition has been verified.
dot Cricket Limited, the sponsoring organisation, asks for no federation membership, club constitution or licence. A village side, a first-class club and a supporters' publication may all apply on the same terms. To see whether your club's name is free, run a domain name search.
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Most likely yes — the zone holds only 1,428 registrations.
That figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, with 988 names published. Club names are distinctive, so the pool stays almost entirely open, and town-plus-club combinations come easily too. To try several candidates at once, use the bulk domain name search.
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Fixtures, ground address, squad, training times and membership terms.
Because matches run long and depend on the weather, the live state of play is the most visited part of the page — build something that lets you post a delay quickly. If you take membership applications you are processing personal data, so see the SSL certificate page for an encrypted connection.
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Take the ending for the sport you actually cover; they are separate zones.
Both are sport-specific and neither speaks for a general sports club on its own. Where a club runs several sections, keeping the main address corporate and giving each section a subpage holds up better over time. For the comparison, see the .basketball domain page.
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Make the club or league the root and skip repeating the sport.
Because the ending already names the sport, a repeat such as cricketclub lengthens the address and costs you recall. A town or region name matches how supporters search and passes easily over the phone. With longer names, check how an abbreviation reads before you commit.
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Begin by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
At clubs the domain is often held in the name of a former committee member, and access disappears when they move on, so confirm through whois search that the record belongs to the club. The lock must be open and sixty days must have passed since registration. Then continue on the domain transfer page.
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