The .degree Domain: An Address That Names a Programme
.degree was recorded in the root zone on 22 May 2014, and the IANA entry names Dog Beach, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The extension runs under the Identity Digital umbrella, yet the legal entity behind it is not Binky Moon, the better-known company in that group. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 counts 1,844 registrations, 987 of which appear in the zone file.
The name suits one thing especially well: putting a single qualification in front. A certificate course, a master's programme, a vocational track, an alumni network. The rule of thumb runs like this — if the address has to stand for a whole institution, an .education domain frames it more broadly; if it stands for one award, .degree lets the left-hand label stay short. Test candidates with a domain name search.
Across the policies Identity Digital publishes, a TLD-specific eligibility document exists for .ltd only; registering .degree involves no check of a diploma, an accreditation or an institutional record. The address says nothing about whether your teaching is recognised. Naming the accrediting body, the length of study, the workload and the graduation conditions on the page itself protects the reader and keeps you clear of arguments later.
.DEGREE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC
- Root zone record 22 May 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 1,844 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 987 names, about 54%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .degree domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.degree 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
$12.90 /year -
Transfer
$51.99 /year -
Renewal
$55.99 /year -
Restore
$144.90 -
Late Renewal
$9.36
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.degree Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .degree 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 .degree 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 .degree 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 $9.36 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 .degree 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
.degree Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.degree Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .degree domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.degree Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .degree Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone may; no eligibility condition has been verified.
Dog Beach, LLC, the sponsoring organisation, asks for no institutional record, accreditation certificate or teaching credential at the point of registration. A university and a one-tutor workshop apply on identical terms. To find out whether the name you want is free, run a domain name search.
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Take .degree for a single qualification and .education for a whole institution.
Scope decides it. A .degree address is a shop window for one programme, so the label on the left needs only the programme name. An institutional address has to hold departments, announcements and admissions pages together, and that asks for a wider frame. Compare it against the .education domain page.
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No. The ending proves nothing about recognition.
Identity Digital publishes a TLD-specific eligibility document for .ltd only, and nothing comparable applies here. Recognition comes from the decision of an accrediting body, never from a domain. Stating that body, the date of its decision and the period it covers on your own page is what keeps the claim defensible.
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The zone holds 1,844 registrations, 987 of them visible in the zone file.
Both figures come from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. A publication rate near 54% means roughly half of what is registered has not been attached to a site yet. In a zone this small, short labels built on a programme name still stand a fair chance.
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Use the name of the programme rather than the name of the school.
Since the ending already carries the word, repeating it on the left wastes room. The pattern that works: the domain names the award, and inner pages carry intake dates and application details. Where several programmes each need a name, try them together in a bulk domain name search.
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Ask your current registrar for the authorisation code first.
During admissions season, downtime translates directly into lost applicants, so schedule the move outside intake weeks and prepare the name servers beforehand. The domain must be unlocked and at least sixty days past its registration date. Check the record through a whois search, then start at domain transfer.
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