.fish Domain: One Address for Seafood and Angling
.fish was recorded in the root zone on 13 February 2014, with Binky Moon, LLC named as the sponsoring organisation in the IANA entry. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 lists 7,164 registrations, 5,834 of which appear in the zone file — around 81% are actually live. A rate that high says the zone is being used rather than held.
The word points at three trades at once: seafood supply, angling, and the aquarium hobby. Which one your address stands for is decided by the root, since cold chain logistics and boat charters attract completely different visitors under the same ending. Once you have a candidate, run a .fish domain search; if the project is built around angling, compare it with the .fishing page as well.
The two endings share a theme but sit with different registry operators: the IANA record assigns .fish to Binky Moon, LLC and .fishing to Registry Services, LLC. What follows is practical — a policy, a term or a rule that applies in one of them does not automatically apply in the other. The zones differ in scale too: 7,164 registrations against 2,937. If you plan to hold both, read each set of rules on its own.
.FISH Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 13 February 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 7,164 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 5,834 names, about 81%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fish domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fish 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$44.19 /year -
Renewal
$47.59 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.32
Included With Every .fish 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.
.fish Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .fish 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 .fish 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 .fish 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 $7.32 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 .fish 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
.fish Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.fish Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fish domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fish Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .fish Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. Binky Moon, LLC publishes no eligibility condition for this ending.
Names go in order of application and nothing — no licence, no vessel paper, no business registration — is requested at the point of registration. Selling, transporting and storing seafood is governed by its own rules, and those obligations follow the activity rather than the domain. Showing your business details on the site helps a visitor verify who you are.
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Choose .fish when you sell a product and .fishing when you sell an experience.
The first names a thing and reads naturally for a supplier, a wholesaler or a restaurant partner. The second names an activity and suits charters, tackle and content projects. The two also answer to different registries, so their rule sets are not the same. Line the candidates up side by side with bulk domain name search.
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It does, provided the root says aquarium clearly.
The ending on its own draws no line between live tropical stock and a seafood counter, and a visitor should know within a second which one they have reached. A word such as aquarium, tropical or a species name draws that line. The same logic applies to wholesale supply: the root carries the trade while the ending carries the subject.
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Of 7,164 registrations, 5,834 appear in the zone file — roughly 81%.
Most registered names have been pointed at a name server. For a buyer the implication is direct: a name you like being taken usually means a working site sits behind it, so waiting for an expiry rarely pays. Changing the root will get you online sooner than changing the ending.
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Yes. The move runs on an authorisation code and no extra documents are required.
In seafood businesses the recurring snag is a name registered by a seasonal web designer, so the approval message lands with them and the window closes unused. Change the contact address on the record to one you read yourself, then start from the domain transfer page.
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