The .fun Domain: An Address for Playful Projects
.fun entered the root zone on 30 November 2016; the IANA record names Radix Technologies Inc. as the sponsoring organisation and Tucows.com, Co. as the technical contact. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 reports 816,093 registrations, making it by some distance the largest zone in the group reviewed here — more than seven times the size of the next one.
The registry positions the ending for gamers, comedians and content creators, and event pages, community projects and campaign addresses share the same space. Three letters keep the address comfortable on a phone screen and in a social profile. Try what is open with a .fun domain search, or run several candidates together through bulk domain name search.
Of 816,093 registrations, only 375,948 appear in the zone file — 46%, the lowest rate in the group reviewed here. More than half the registered names have no live site behind them. Two things follow. A short generic word showing as taken may have no working project behind it at all, and judging by the size of the zone that everything must be gone is misleading. Keeping a second and third candidate ready, and testing the list in one pass, is the quickest route through.
.FUN Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Radix Technologies Inc.
- Infrastructure provider Tucows.com, Co.
- Root zone record 30 November 2016
- Registered names 816,093 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 375,948 names, about 46%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fun domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fun 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
$0.99 /year -
Transfer
$38.99 /year -
Renewal
$41.99 /year -
Restore
$169.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.00
Included With Every .fun 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.
.fun Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .fun 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 .fun 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 .fun 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 $6.00 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 .fun 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
.fun Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.fun Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fun domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fun Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .fun Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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The zone is large at 816,093 registrations, but with a 46% publication rate it is more open than it looks.
More than half the registered names have never been pointed at a server, so plenty of names that show as taken are not in use. Popular single words are almost certainly gone, though. Test patterns that join two words or add a verb, and run the list together through bulk domain name search.
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It does. The address sets the tone of the event before anyone opens it.
For a festival, a tournament or a party, a short address is easy to read on a poster and a ticket. When the event is over, redirecting to next year's page rather than switching the address off preserves the links you accumulated. That way you are not starting promotion from zero every season.
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It depends on context: the address sets a tone, and the tone sets expectations.
For a games studio, a community event or a customer campaign that tone is an asset. For a financial or health-related service the same tone can work against the seriousness people expect. The decision rule is simple — decide what a visitor should feel in the first second, and choose the address to match.
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According to the IANA record the contracting party is Radix Technologies Inc., with an address registered in the Cayman Islands.
Some industry sources list a different legal name from the same group; the contracting party recorded by IANA is what this page follows. The technical contact is Tucows.com, Co., meaning the infrastructure is run by another party. Keeping the two apart matters when you need to name the operator correctly.
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Yes. The move runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra documents.
For campaign and event addresses, schedule it well away from the event date; a move during a week of ticket sales is a risk you do not need. Lift the transfer lock, confirm the contact address on the record, and then start from the domain transfer page.
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