The .diy Domain: Where Do-It-Yourself Projects Live
.diy was recorded in the root zone on 21 July 2016, and the sponsoring organisation in the current IANA entry is Internet Naming Co. According to IANA's RDAP record the registrant field changed on 9 January 2024, while the technical contact is Tucows.com Co. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 counts 12,051 registrations.
A renovation guide, a woodworking shop, repair videos, hobby electronics or a store selling the materials: three letters keep the address easy to type and easy to say. The rule: where your content teaches somebody to do the job themselves, .diy sits exactly right; where you perform the service, an ending naming that trade serves you better. Try candidates in a domain name search.
Electrical installation, gas work, load-bearing walls and pressurised systems count as work for a qualified person in many countries, so a guide covering them has to say which step needs a professional. The materials list, protective equipment and disposal rules belong on the same page. Around a third of the registered names here are absent from the zone file, which leaves room for a guide that actually publishes on a schedule.
.DIY Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Internet Naming Co.
- Root zone record 21 July 2016
- Registrant change 9 January 2024 (IANA RDAP record)
- Registered names 12,051 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 7,669 names, about 64%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .diy domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.diy 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
$4.99 /year -
Transfer
$50.01 /year -
Renewal
$50.01 /year -
Late Renewal
$1.000.00
Included With Every .diy 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.
.diy Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .diy 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 .diy 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 .diy 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 $1.000.00 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 .diy 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
.diy Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.diy Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .diy domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.diy Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .diy Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone is; no trade certificate or business record is asked for.
Internet Naming Co. requires no professional qualification, workshop registration or undertaking about content at the point of registration. Someone filming weekend repair videos and a chain selling materials apply on exactly the same terms. Suitable names can be tried in a domain name search.
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State plainly which step requires a qualified person.
National rules generally reserve electrical, gas and structural work for licensed trades, and saying so at the head of the step list protects the reader. Protective equipment, ventilation and disposal rules belong on the same page as well. For a media-heavy site, the SSL certificate page covers the secure connection.
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Of 12,051 registrations, 7,669 appear in the zone file — about 64%.
The numbers come from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. A missing third suggests that a short three-letter ending is also held for investment. A project publishing on a regular schedule therefore still has a decent chance of standing out here.
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Yes. IANA's RDAP record shows the registrant field updated on 9 January 2024.
The sponsoring organisation today reads Internet Naming Co., while the technical contact is registered to Tucows.com Co. Transfers of this kind leave existing registrations, their holders and their expiry dates untouched; only the body running the zone changes. The root zone record is where to confirm the current state.
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The type of project, or the material you work with.
Since the ending already carries the phrase, repeating it on the left wastes space. Concrete words such as wood, concrete, bike or repair match how people search and do not grow tight as the archive expands. Try several variants together in a bulk domain name search.
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Begin by requesting the authorisation code from your current registrar.
On a site heavy with video and images, note where the media files are served from before you move, because changing name servers can break those links. The domain must be unlocked and at least sixty days past registration. Check it with a whois search, then continue at domain transfer.
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