.day Domains: A Short Ending That Demands HTTPS
.day entered the root zone on 12 June 2014, and the IANA record names Charleston Road Registry Inc. as the sponsoring organisation, the entity trading as Google Registry. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 19,576 names in the zone, of which 13,290 appear in the zone file.
This zone has a technical property that bears directly on your choice: it sits on the HSTS preload list, so every address opens over an encrypted connection or not at all. So the rule reads — if you are building something about a day, a date or a repeating rhythm, the name earns its keep through brevity, but the certificate has to be ready from day one. Try candidates with a domain name search.
This ending appears on the browsers' HSTS preload list: a query to hstspreload.org returns the status 'preloaded' for the zone. In practice that means modern browsers connect to every address under this ending over HTTPS directly and never attempt an unencrypted connection. A site without a valid SSL certificate does not open at all — the visitor sees no warning screen, the page simply fails to load. Plan the certificate before you register the name, not afterwards.
.DAY Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Charleston Road Registry Inc.
- Root zone record 12 June 2014
- Mandatory encryption Zone is on the HSTS preload list
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 19,576 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .day domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.day 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
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Transfer
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Renewal
$19.90 /year
Included With Every .day 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.
.day Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .day 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 .day 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 .day 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 .day 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
.day Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.day Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .day domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.day Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .day Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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In practice yes — the zone sits on the HSTS preload list.
Browsers connect to addresses under this ending over an encrypted channel directly and will not open the page at all when no certificate is present. The user is not even shown a warning screen; the connection ends before it begins. To plan the certificate alongside the name, see the SSL certificate page.
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It means the browser already knows to connect securely before it ever tries the address.
On an ordinary site the encrypted connection is remembered only after a first visit; with a preloaded ending that knowledge ships with the browser, so the first visit is protected as well. No open window is left for an interception attempt. To review the state of your current certificate, see the SSL certificate page.
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Projects about a day, a date or a repeating rhythm.
For awareness days, daily newsletters and habit trackers, keeping the root short makes the address memorable. For corporate events, using the event's name rather than a date lasts far longer. To try several roots together, use the bulk domain name search.
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Anyone can; no eligibility condition has been verified.
Charleston Road Registry, the sponsoring organisation, asks for no company registration or sector check. The technical requirement, on the other hand, is unambiguous: a setup without a certificate will not work in this zone. To see whether a name is free, run a domain name search.
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The zone holds 19,576 registrations, counts as mid-sized, and good roots are still around.
That figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, with 13,290 names published. Some common single words have gone, yet theme and brand combinations remain open. If you are after a short address, this zone still repays a look.
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Begin by getting the authorisation code from your current registrar.
Make sure your certificate is also ready in the new environment before you move; in this zone a missing certificate means losing access outright. The lock must 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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