The .engineer Domain: A Personal Professional Address
.engineer was recorded in the root zone on 29 May 2014, and the IANA entry names Dog Beach, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 counts 10,544 registrations with 7,614 present in the zone file. The zone is small, which is why short first-name-plus-surname roots can still be found here.
The singular form suits a person: independent engineers, researchers, portfolio pages and CV sites all read correctly on it. If you want to present a firm rather than an individual, the plural ending fits better. To weigh the two side by side before deciding, run both through a bulk domain name search.
No diploma, chamber membership or licence is requested during registration, and Identity Digital's published policy set defines no verification specific to this ending. A .engineer address therefore proves nothing about its holder's qualifications. Whether you may use the title at all follows from the rules of the country you practise in. What convinces a visitor is the project list and the checkable references on the page, not the letters after the dot.
.ENGINEER Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC
- Root zone record 29 May 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 10,544 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 7,614 names, about 72%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .engineer domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.engineer 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
$11.49 /year -
Transfer
$38.99 /year -
Renewal
$41.99 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .engineer 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.
.engineer Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .engineer 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 .engineer 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 .engineer 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 $6.73 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 .engineer 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
.engineer Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.engineer Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .engineer domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.engineer Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .engineer Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. Registration asks for no professional credential of any kind.
The policy set published by Dog Beach, LLC defines no verification step specific to this ending, so the address says nothing about its holder's competence. The right to use the title itself comes from the rules where you practise and stands apart from the domain. Availability appears immediately in a .engineer domain search.
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The singular points at a person, the plural at a discipline or a firm — and the operators differ too.
IANA records .engineer under Dog Beach, LLC and .engineering under Binky Moon, LLC. Both sit beneath Identity Digital, yet they are separate legal entities and separate contracts. In practice the choice comes down to one question: does the page speak for a human being or for an office? Business cards and CVs suit the singular; corporate presentation suits the plural.
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It is, and the small zone means the pattern is still available.
The 11 August 2026 reading counts 10,544 registrations, so most first-name-and-surname combinations remain untaken. For engineers building a personal brand that is an opening long since closed in the older endings. Turn the address into a single door for your CV, publication list and project archive, and one link covers a whole recruiter conversation.
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Yes. The ending allows transfers and asks for no supporting documents.
The common failure on personal addresses is a contact mailbox left behind at a former employer: the approval message goes there and the window expires unanswered. Change the registrant address to one you control before you begin. Then start the move with your authorisation code from the domain transfer page.
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Not wrong, but it shifts the reader's expectation.
A singular address invites the assumption that one person stands behind it, which works against you if you are presenting a team of ten. In a small practice built around a named founder, the same form reads warm and accurate instead. Let the decision follow whose voice the page speaks in rather than headcount alone.
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7,614 of 10,544 names appear in the zone file — roughly 72%.
The remainder are registered but not yet pointed at any server. On personal addresses that is ordinary: people reserve the name first and build the page later. The measurement comes from the nTLDstats breakdown accessed on 11 August 2026 and moves over time.
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