The .digital Domain: The Largest Zone in This Group
.digital entered the root zone on 17 April 2014, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 reports 555,723 registrations — by a wide margin the biggest figure among the new endings measured in this programme. Of those names, 438,356 appear in the zone file.
Agencies, software studios, consultancies, learning platforms and internal corporate projects all live here. The size of the zone produces its own rule: single-word generics should be treated as gone, so start with two-part labels that join a brand name to a service. To try a dozen variants at once, run them through a bulk domain name search.
In a zone past half a million names, most short generic labels were taken years ago. That does not close the ending to you; it changes how you search. What works: open the label with the brand, close it with the service, and keep the whole thing within three syllables. Names built that way stay available and survive being read out over the phone.
.DIGITAL Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 17 April 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 555,723 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 438,356 names, about 79%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .digital domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.digital 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
$3.99 /year -
Transfer
$41.59 /year -
Renewal
$44.79 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.32
Included With Every .digital 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.
.digital Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .digital 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 .digital 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 .digital 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 $7.32 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 .digital 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
.digital Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.digital Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .digital domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.digital Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .digital Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone may; no sector or trading credential is requested.
Binky Moon, LLC asks for no company record and no proof that you work in technology. An association, a municipal department and a one-person studio all apply on the same terms. What remains free can be scanned in a domain name search.
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Yes, though not among the single-word generics.
In a zone of 555,723 registrations, labels such as agency or studio went years ago. Two-part labels opening with a brand name, by contrast, remain widely available. Testing dozens of variants in one list is quicker through a bulk domain name search.
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Take .digital for transformation and systems, .design for form and craft.
In consultancy, data, integration or marketing automation, visitors arrive looking for process and outcome. In visual work the first expectation is a portfolio, and the address sets that up immediately. The comparison sits on the .design domain page.
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At 555,723 names it is the largest new ending measured here.
The figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, and 438,356 of those names appear in the zone file. Size buys familiarity: written down, the ending does not look unfamiliar to a reader. The price of that is a supply of short labels that ran out long ago.
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A two-part label joining the brand name to the service.
Chasing single words wastes time in this zone, whereas the brand-plus-service pattern stays both free and legible. For internal projects, taking a separate address rather than a subdomain also makes it easier to publish the work independently. Plan the certificate step from the SSL certificate page.
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Request the authorisation code from your current registrar.
On a corporate address the move usually touches mail flow as well, so record the MX entries beforehand and verify them the same day. The domain must be unlocked and at least sixty days past registration. Read the record with a whois search, then continue at domain transfer.
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