The .email Domain: An Address Reserved for Mail
.email entered the root zone on 19 December 2013, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 counts 165,986 registrations, 124,926 of which appear in the zone file. Three names in four are published, which marks this out as a working zone rather than a parked one.
Two situations suit the ending. The first is separating corporate correspondence from the main website; the second is sending newsletters, invoices and notifications from one dedicated address. Here is the rule: split them when your sending volume is large enough to affect the reputation of your main domain, and keep one address when it is not. Weighing this alongside your primary name? Compare both in a bulk domain name search.
Registering a .email name does not hand you a working mail account. Mail only flows once the MX records point at a mail provider, SPF and DKIM signatures are in place, and a DMARC policy sits on top of them. Skip those three and a large share of what you send lands in the junk folder at the far end. Decide who will carry the mail before you register the name.
.EMAIL Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 165,986 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 124,926 names, about 75%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .email domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.email 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
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$31.19 /year -
Renewal
$33.59 /year -
Restore
$119.90 -
Late Renewal
$5.27
Included With Every .email 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.
.email Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .email 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 .email 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 .email 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 $5.27 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 .email 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
.email Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.email Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .email domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.email Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .email Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registration gives you the name; the mailbox is a separate step.
What you buy is the right to use a name. Messages only move once the MX records for that name point at a mail service and SPF and DKIM entries are added underneath. If you want mail bundled with your web space, look at the hosting plans. Until the records resolve, anything sent to the address bounces back at the sender.
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Anyone. The registry publishes no eligibility condition for this ending.
Binky Moon, LLC operates the zone, and its policy set carries no document or status requirement specific to .email. Companies, associations and individuals apply on identical terms, and requests are handled in the order they arrive. Availability shows up straight away in a .email domain search.
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Usually the ending is innocent — the missing piece is authentication.
Receiving servers read the DNS signatures attached to a name, not the name itself. Without SPF there is no proof the sender was authorised; without DKIM there is no proof the message survived the journey unaltered; without DMARC there is no instruction on what to do when either check fails. A name carrying all three is accepted whatever its ending. Raising volume gradually on a fresh name helps too.
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You start by taking the authorisation code from your current registrar.
No extra paperwork applies to this ending. When live mail depends on the name, reverse the usual order: rebuild the DNS zone at the receiving side first, verify the MX and signature records, and only then release the transfer. Otherwise messages arriving during the switchover can vanish. The process runs from the domain transfer page.
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It buys separation between your sending reputation and your main name.
Send newsletters and alerts from the primary domain and one complaint wave lands directly on it, dragging your day-to-day correspondence along. Move that traffic to its own name and the damage stays where it happened. The cost is a second DNS zone to maintain. At low sending volumes that split is simply extra work.
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The zone is busy, so treat single-word roots as taken.
The 11 August 2026 reading shows 165,986 registrations, the largest zone in this group by a wide margin. Most plain dictionary words have gone, which is why brand-plus-function patterns work better here. Rather than testing candidates one at a time, sweep the whole shortlist through a bulk domain name search.
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