The .faith Domain: For Belief and for Trust
.faith was recorded in the root zone on 5 February 2015, and the IANA entry names dot Faith Limited as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 7,031 registrations in the zone, 5,276 of which appear in the zone file. The ending is marketed under the Gibraltar-based GRS Domains brand.
Congregations, religious publishing and teaching projects and writers working on spiritual subjects all sit naturally on this address. The word also carries the sense of trust and loyalty, so community-led projects share the zone. Check candidate names in a .faith domain search.
This ending belongs to a group of sixteen operated under the GRS Domains brand, alongside names such as .accountant, .bid, .cricket, .date and .download. The practical consequence: registration terms, registrar support and policy documents across that group are largely shared. A process you have learned on one of them behaves the same way on another, so taking a second name from the portfolio means no new rulebook to read.
.FAITH Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation dot Faith Limited
- Root zone record 5 February 2015
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 7,031 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 5,276 names, about 75%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .faith domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.faith 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
$6.59 /year -
Transfer
$6.59 /year -
Renewal
$10.11 /year -
Restore
$119.90 -
Late Renewal
$2.02
Included With Every .faith 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.
.faith Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .faith 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 .faith 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 .faith 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 $2.02 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 .faith 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
.faith Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.faith Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .faith domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.faith Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .faith Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry performs no check on religious affiliation.
dot Faith Limited sets no eligibility condition for this ending and issues names first come, first served. The consequence is worth stating: the address does not show that a recognised community stands behind it. If you are publishing on behalf of a congregation or a charity, your registration details and a contact address on the page tell a visitor far more.
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It does — in English the same word means trust and loyalty.
So the zone holds not only congregations but community projects built on trust, mutual aid networks and ventures around commitment. Name your subject in the label and a visitor places you immediately; leave it neutral and both audiences are left guessing which one you belong to.
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Registration terms and registrar processes are largely common across the group.
Sixteen endings run under the GRS Domains brand, among them .accountant, .bid, .cricket, .date and .download. Take a second name from that group and there is no new rulebook to learn. To try several candidates together, use a bulk domain name search.
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Transparency and an encrypted connection decide whether a visitor trusts you.
State plainly who you collect on behalf of, where the money goes and how to reach you. Payment and form pages carry personal data, so the connection has to be encrypted; certificates come from the SSL certificate page. Any permit obligation for fundraising itself arises from your own jurisdiction, not from the domain.
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The 11 August 2026 reading shows 7,031 registrations with 5,276 published.
The zone counts as small, so labels built on a community name, a town or a subject remain findable. Low recognition is the trade-off, which makes it important to say clearly in the first screen who you are. The figures come from the nTLDstats breakdown on the date of access.
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Yes. The move runs on an authorisation code with no supporting documents.
On community pages the recurring snag is a name registered years ago to a volunteer whose mailbox no longer works. Update the registrant record to the organisation before you start, then run the process from the domain transfer page.
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