The .fishing Domain: An Address for the Angling World
.fishing entered the root zone on 28 February 2014, and the IANA record names Registry Services, LLC — the contracting entity behind GoDaddy Registry — as the sponsoring organisation. The ending previously belonged to the Minds + Machines portfolio. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 2,937 registrations, of which 1,769 appear in the zone file.
The registry aims the ending at the angling community: tackle shops, charter boats, managed lakes, blogs and clubs. Because the zone is small, single-word roots can still be found, and pairing the ending with a place name reads well. Test what is open through a .fishing domain search, and if your project leans towards selling produce, look at the .fish page too.
Of 2,937 registrations, only 1,769 appear in the zone file — about 60%. Two names in every five have never gone live. That has two consequences worth planning around. A name that shows as taken may have nothing behind it, and the small size means short, memorable roots are still within reach. If your business is seasonal, keeping the address online through the off months protects the continuity search engines reward.
.FISHING Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Registry Services, LLC (GoDaddy Registry)
- Root zone record 28 February 2014
- Apparent sibling .fish answers to a different registry
- Registered names 2,937 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 1,769 names, about 60%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fishing domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fishing 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
$32.49 /year -
Transfer
$32.49 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Late Renewal
$7.81
Included With Every .fishing 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.
.fishing Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .fishing 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 .fishing 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 .fishing 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 $7.81 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 .fishing 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
.fishing Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.fishing Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fishing domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fishing Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .fishing Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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GoDaddy Registry's Registration Policy of June 2022 asks you to state that your use fits the purpose of the ending.
The same document requires registration data to be accurate and updated within fourteen days of any change. A charter boat, a tackle shop or a managed lake all sit comfortably inside that frame. No permit, club membership or angling licence is verified at any point.
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It works, and the small zone means lake, river and county names are often still open.
Someone searching locally already types the place, so the address matches the intent behind the query. The one thing to watch is spelling: long hyphenated combinations cannot be read out over a phone. Try several place names in one pass with bulk domain name search.
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Of 2,937 registrations, 1,769 appear in the zone file; the rest have never been pointed at a name server.
Small zones show this pattern often — names are taken to hold or to use later, and the project never starts. For you the reading is optimistic: a name that looks taken may have no competing site behind it, and short roots remain within reach.
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No. An address that stops resolving loses the position it earned in search results.
A single page out of season does the job: opening date, contact details and a booking form. That way spring does not start from zero. A simple holding page needs no heavy setup, and you can compare what fits on the hosting page.
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Through an authorisation code; the registry requires nothing beyond that.
Timing is the thing to plan here. A move made in the middle of the booking season turns even a short outage into lost revenue. Schedule it for the quiet months and set up the DNS records at the new provider first, then begin from the domain transfer page.
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