The .discount Domain: Where Time-Limited Offers Live
.discount entered the root zone on 17 April 2014, with Binky Moon, LLC named in the IANA record as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 counts 4,383 registrations, 3,255 of which appear in the zone file. No eligibility condition has been verified for registration.
What this address does is fence an offer inside a period: an end-of-season clearance, a members-only window, a corporate agreement page, an announcement tied to one event. The rule: where the campaign should stand apart from the main brand address, .discount marks that at the address level; where it will become a permanent service, a section under the main site fits better. Try candidates in a domain name search.
A time-limited page should never leave a visitor at a dead end once the period closes. Settle three questions before launch: does the page become an archive, redirect to the main address, or carry the announcement for the next round. Writing down the valid-until date, the excluded items and any stock limit belongs to the same preparation — a clause added afterwards does not replace a promise already made.
.DISCOUNT Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 17 April 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 4,383 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 3,255 names, about 74%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .discount domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.discount 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
$7.99 /year -
Transfer
$29.89 /year -
Renewal
$32.19 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.29
Included With Every .discount 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.
.discount Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .discount 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 .discount 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 .discount 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 $6.29 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 .discount 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
.discount Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.discount Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .discount domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.discount Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .discount Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone is; no retail licence or shop registration is asked for.
Binky Moon, LLC requires neither a commercial register entry nor a campaign plan. A manufacturer, an association and an events team can all register on equal terms. Suitable labels can be tried in a domain name search.
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Start and end dates, excluded items and any quantity limit.
Consumer law in many countries expects the conditions to sit with the announcement rather than on a page of their own. Hiding them elsewhere creates both a compliance risk and support traffic. An order form needs an encrypted connection; the SSL certificate page describes that step.
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Either become an archive or redirect to the main address.
Leaving an expired page untouched serves stale terms to whoever arrives from a search result. The archive route records past rounds and pays off where campaigns repeat. The redirect route keeps traffic on the main site. Whichever you take, decide it before launch rather than after.
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There are 4,383 registrations, 3,255 of them in the zone file.
The data comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. A publication rate near 74% shows most registrants here have put up a page. As the zone is small, labels built on a brand name remain broadly available.
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A brand name, or the name of the campaign period.
Labels containing a percentage or a figure misstate the next round and turn the address into a single-use asset. Brand joined to a season or an event, by contrast, can be reused whenever the campaign repeats. Try the variants together in a bulk domain name search.
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Request the authorisation code from your current registrar.
Traffic concentrates during campaign windows, so the sensible slot for a move is between two of them. The domain must be unlocked and at least sixty days past registration. Check the record with a whois search, then start the process at domain transfer.
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