The .dental Domain: Addresses for Oral Health Care
.dental entered the root zone on 17 April 2014, with Binky Moon, LLC listed in the IANA record as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 10,227 registrations, of which 8,795 appear in the zone file. That share, roughly 86%, is among the highest publication rates measured across these zones.
Clinics, laboratories, implant and orthodontic centres and dental suppliers all find room here without crowding one another. The rule: where the address stands for a practice as an organisation, .dental carries that weight; where a single dentist is the name people remember, a .dentist domain frames it more personally. Put both side by side in a domain name search.
No verification of a diploma, a speciality or a practice licence is defined on the registry side by Binky Moon; within Identity Digital's published policies, a TLD-specific document exists for .ltd alone. Dentistry is licensed almost everywhere, and that duty follows from the work you do, never from the ending you registered. Naming the practitioner, the registration number and the board you answer to gives visitors a way to check.
.DENTAL Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 17 April 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 10,227 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 8,795 names, about 86%
- Document Requirement There are no requirements for buying .dental domain registration
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.dental 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
$62.50 / years -
Transfer
$64.99 / years -
Renewal
$69.99 / years -
Restore
$179.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.44
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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
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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.
.dental Domain Lifecycle
Domain lifecycle
The stages in order, from registration to releaseDomain Is Available (Available)
A .dental 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 yours for the term you chose. You can renew at any point before expiry to keep it uninterrupted, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Redemption Period (Redemption Period)
The domain is not released the moment it expires — during this window it is still yours and can be recovered. Some extensions charge an extra restore fee at this stage, so renewing before expiry is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete Period (Pending Delete Period)
If the redemption window is missed too, the domain enters the final stage and waits to be deleted. Renewal and recovery are no longer possible here; when the period ends the registration is removed for good.
Domain Is Available Again
Once deletion completes, the domain leaves the system and anyone can register it — popular names are often taken the same minute by someone watching. Keep auto-renewal on so a name you care about never gets this far.
.dental Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.dental Domain Registration
- Document Requirement There are no requirements for buying .dental domain registration
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.dental Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
.dental Domain Registration Periods
- Registration Periods 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 years
- Renewal Periods 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 years
- Pre-registration 1 days
- Accounting Period 45 days
- Finalization Period 1 days
- Failure Period 45 days
- Payment Period 45 days
- Redemption Period 30 days
- Deletion Hold Period 30 days
- Renewal Time 30 Day
Frequently Asked Questions About .dental Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone may; no diploma or licence is requested.
Binky Moon, LLC asks for no practitioner credential, board registration or business permit at the point of registration. That does not mean the right to practise comes with the address: it comes from national law. Candidate names can be tried in a domain name search.
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They belong to different legal entities and suit different scales.
By the IANA records, .dental sits with Binky Moon, LLC and .dentist with Dog Beach, LLC; sharing an umbrella does not make them siblings. In practice .dental speaks for the practice, .dentist for the person behind it. The .dentist domain page covers that side.
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The practitioner's name, registration details, board and contact information.
Patients look for something they can verify, and before-and-after images fall under advertising restrictions in many jurisdictions. An appointment form collects health data, so an encrypted connection is mandatory and the retention period should be stated. The SSL certificate page explains the step.
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It holds 10,227 registrations with 8,795 of them live.
Figures are from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. A publication rate of 86% makes this one of the most active zones measured here: nearly everyone who took a name went on to publish. Short generic labels are largely gone, while district-based ones remain open.
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The practice name combined with a district works most reliably.
Patients tend to search in the form of "area plus dentist", so an address matching that phrase saves your copy the work. Putting a single treatment in the label narrows the scope and starts to mislead as the service list grows. Check variants together in a bulk domain name search.
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Begin by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
Where an appointment system is running, downtime means lost patients; prepare the name servers first and schedule the move outside surgery hours. The domain must be unlocked and at least sixty days past registration. Read the record with a whois search, then proceed at domain transfer.
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