The .estate Domain: A Plain Address for Property
.estate was recorded in the root zone on 8 November 2013 and is operated by Binky Moon, LLC. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 counts 14,897 registrations in the zone, 11,316 of which appear in the zone file. The ending belongs to the generation delegated in the opening months of the new domain programme.
Agencies, portfolio managers, developers and valuation teams all read correctly on this address. The word carries a second sense as well — the estate of a deceased person, the assets that pass under a will. The rule follows: the label decides which meaning you summon, and the two audiences search in completely different ways. Test candidates in a .estate domain search.
Property searches nearly always start with a location: a district, a neighbourhood, a stretch of coast or the name of a development. Put that place in the label and the address states in one line both what you do and where you work, so a visitor knows immediately they have landed correctly. A generic, place-free label drops you into the same bag as hundreds of identical agencies. Write the place the way official records spell it — local abbreviations get muddled when the address is read aloud.
.ESTATE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 8 November 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 14,897 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 11,316 names, about 76%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .estate 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.
.estate 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
$10.99 /year -
Transfer
$38.99 /year -
Renewal
$41.99 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .estate 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.
.estate Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .estate 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 .estate 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 .estate 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 .estate 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
.estate Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.estate Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .estate domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.estate Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .estate Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry asks for no licence of any kind for this ending.
Binky Moon, LLC defines no eligibility condition specific to it. Whatever authorisation your jurisdiction requires for dealing in property arises from that law and has nothing to do with the domain. Publishing your registration number on the page is a far stronger signal to a visitor than the address itself.
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Yes. In English the same word also means the estate of a deceased person.
That is why the zone holds law firms working on estate planning, probate and the administration of assets alongside property agencies. Two audiences share one ending while asking entirely different questions. Name the work you actually do in the label and a visitor immediately knows which side they have reached.
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Long-lived projects justify their own name; short ones belong on a sub-page.
A residential development selling over several years benefits from a dedicated address across advertising, listings and site hoardings. A portfolio that turns over in months leaves you with a dead address to manage afterwards. Assessing several at once? Check the candidates together in a bulk domain name search.
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They are not rivals — what matters is that the place sits in the label.
Because property searches begin with a location, an address carrying the district or neighbourhood positions you far more sharply than a generic one. The ending then states what you sell. Put together, the address explains place and trade in a single line and stays readable in a printed advertisement.
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11,316 of 14,897 names appear in the zone file — roughly 76%.
The rest are registered without yet pointing at a server. In this sector a share of that group is names held in advance for developments still to launch. The measurement comes from the nTLDstats breakdown accessed on 11 August 2026.
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Treat it as necessary: enquiry forms and viewing requests carry personal data.
When a visitor types a name, a phone number and a budget into a form, moving that unencrypted is not defensible. Browsers also mark unencrypted pages as plainly unsafe, and the warning costs conversions before anyone reads a listing. Certificates are available from the SSL certificate page.
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