The .engineering Domain: An Address for the Practice
.engineering entered the root zone on 3 April 2014 and is operated by Binky Moon, LLC. According to the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, 11,079 of 13,257 registrations appear in the zone file. That share, close to 84%, sits at the upper end of the group measured here and shows that most names resolve to a working site.
The ending performs best in patterns that pair it with a discipline: structural, mechanical, software, environmental or project delivery. Here is the rule — when your main address already carries the corporate identity, reserve this ending for a service line or a project sub-site. Rather than testing candidates one by one, run the list through a bulk domain name search.
11,079 of 13,257 registered names are present in the zone file. Holding a name idle is uncommon here: most owners publish something soon after registering. The practical consequence is worth planning around — if the name you want is taken, it is probably in genuine use, and waiting for it to lapse is a poor strategy. Generating a second and third root word will get you to a decision far sooner than watching an expiry date.
.ENGINEERING Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 3 April 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 13,257 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 11,079 names, about 84%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .engineering domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.engineering 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
$23.99 /year -
Transfer
$64.99 /year -
Renewal
$69.99 /year -
Restore
$164.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.engineering Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .engineering 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 .engineering 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 .engineering 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 $11.12 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 .engineering 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
.engineering Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.engineering Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .engineering domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.engineering Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .engineering Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry asks for no trade register entry and no competence certificate.
Binky Moon, LLC publishes no eligibility condition for this ending and names are issued first come, first served. What follows is worth stating plainly: the address alone is no proof that an engineering firm stands behind it. Candidates can be checked against the zone in a .engineering domain search.
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Yes, and it is one of the established patterns in this zone.
On large infrastructure and energy projects, the client, the main contractor and the subcontractors all need a shared document pool. A project-specific address hosts that pool without crowding the corporate site, and it archives cleanly once the job closes. To run such a sub-site, pick a suitable plan from the hosting range.
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Build a new root rather than waiting for an expiry.
With a publication rate near 84%, most taken names in this zone are genuinely in service and unlikely to be released. A second or third candidate formed by adding the discipline, the city or the service type usually reads more clearly anyway. Waiting rarely delivers anything except lost months.
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If your main address carries a brand name, a second one can carry the function.
A visitor who does not recognise the brand cannot tell from the address what you actually do, and a functional name closes that gap. Rather than pointing both at identical content, give the second one a defined service line of its own. Otherwise you maintain two addresses that show the same page.
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The critical point is keeping project pages continuously reachable.
If you are inside a tender or handover window, schedule the move outside it. Prepare the DNS zone on the receiving side first, then start the process with your authorisation code from the domain transfer page. Check as well that the registrant mailbox is reachable, because the confirmation lands there.
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Design and calculation work leans one way; on-site delivery leans the other.
For a practice offering structural analysis, project management, feasibility studies and inspection, the engineering association fits the service. Where the work is site execution, contracting and supervision, the building association tells a visitor more in less time. If you genuinely do both, choose the main address by where the revenue sits and keep the other as a redirect.
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