The .domains Domain: An Address About the Trade Itself
.domains was recorded in the root zone on 12 December 2013, and the IANA entry names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 counts 9,451 registrations, 7,379 of which appear in the zone file. No eligibility condition has been verified for registration.
Portfolio pages, sales listings, advisory services and internal naming documentation all fit here. The rule: where you manage several names in one place and offer them for sale, .domains says that at the address level; where a single project is being introduced, an address carrying that project's own name reads better. Try the candidates in a domain name search.
The ending does not make its holder a registrar: no accreditation or authority check is defined on the registry side. Selling domain names requires ICANN accreditation, or a reseller arrangement with an accredited company, and both are separate document-based processes. If you publish sales listings, set out your transfer method, the escrow route and each side's responsibilities — buyers ask about all three.
.DOMAINS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 12 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 9,451 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 7,379 names, about 78%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .domains domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.domains 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$42.89 /year -
Renewal
$46.19 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.32
Included With Every .domains 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.
.domains Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .domains 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 .domains 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 .domains 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 .domains 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
.domains Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.domains Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .domains domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.domains Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .domains Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone may; you need not work in the industry.
Binky Moon, LLC asks for no accreditation, reseller agreement or company record at registration. An investor and a team handling internal naming apply on the same terms. Suitable labels can be tried in a domain name search.
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No. The ending confers no accreditation or authority.
Selling names as a registrar requires ICANN accreditation, or a reseller agreement with an accredited company; both are separate processes resting on documents. Selling names from your own portfolio is a different activity governed by transfer rules. Check a record before transfer with a whois search.
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The transfer method, the escrow route and each side's responsibilities.
Buyers care about three things above all: how the name moves, when the money is released, and who does what if something goes wrong. Writing those down cuts the volume of correspondence sharply. Forms need an encrypted connection; see the SSL certificate page.
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There are 9,451 registrations, 7,379 of them in the zone file.
The figures come from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. A publication rate near 78% shows most holders here have put up a page. As a mid-sized zone, labels built on a brand name remain broadly open.
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A brand name, or the theme of the portfolio.
A generic word is both taken and unhelpful in telling you apart from anyone else. Where the portfolio concentrates on one sector or one language, putting that in the label tells a buyer at a glance what they will find. Try variants together in a bulk domain name search.
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Begin by requesting the authorisation code from your registrar.
Portfolio pages attract both search traffic and direct offers, so keep the interruption short and prepare the name servers beforehand. The domain must be unlocked and at least sixty days past registration. The process starts at domain transfer.
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