The .fund Domain: Where Capital Meets Purpose
.fund was recorded in the root zone on 17 April 2014, and the IANA entry names Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party; the ending is offered under the Identity Digital umbrella. The zone was first delegated to John Castle, LLC and moved to its present holder in 2018 alongside 195 other endings. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 28,890 registrations, of which 22,067 appear in the zone file.
Two quite different activities share this ending: investment vehicles that raise capital, and grant or donation programmes that raise gifts. What tells a visitor which one they are looking at is the root word, not the suffix. See what remains open with a .fund domain search, and if the work is charitable rather than financial, compare the .gives page before you decide.
Investment advice, portfolio management and public fundraising are duties that follow from the activity, never from a domain name. The registry tests neither fund status nor any authorisation at the point of registration. The practical reading is simple: trust is built by the page itself — the registered name, the company or charity number, the regulator you answer to and, where one exists, an independent audit. Without those, the suffix closes no gap at all.
.FUND Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- Root zone record 17 April 2014
- Registered names 28,890 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 22,067 names, about 76%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fund 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.
.fund 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
$71.49 /year -
Renewal
$76.99 /year -
Restore
$164.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
Included With Every .fund 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.
.fund Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .fund 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 .fund 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 .fund 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 $11.12 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 .fund 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
.fund Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.fund Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fund domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fund Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .fund Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Two groups dominate: investment vehicles raising capital, and grant or donation programmes raising gifts.
For the first group the fund name is usually a lasting brand. For the second it is the name of a campaign, and when the campaign closes the address becomes an archive. That difference changes the planning: a brand wants a long registration term, while a campaign needs a decision, made early, about what happens once it ends.
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No. A domain name is not a licence; authorisation comes from the rules of the country you operate in.
The registry asks for no legal form, no permission and no regulator reference at registration. If the page will solicit capital, establish separately which authority supervises you and which disclosures you are obliged to publish. Putting the registered name and company number in the footer answers a visitor's first question before they ask it.
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Both sit with Binky Moon, LLC; the difference is in the audience, not the ownership.
.finance describes a service being sold — advice, accounting, financial technology. .fund describes the vehicle that gathers the money itself: a fund, a grant scheme, a donation drive. Selling a service points one way; raising capital or gifts points the other. Compare the two on the .finance page.
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Of 28,890 registrations, 22,067 appear in the zone file — roughly 76%.
Three names in four have genuinely been pointed at a server. For a search that means a single common word almost certainly belongs to a live project. Adding a year, a region or the purpose to the fund name is the quickest route to something free. To test several candidates at once, use the bulk domain name search.
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Yes. The move runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra paperwork.
On addresses that carry donor or investor correspondence, timing is what matters: while the nameserver record refreshes, form submissions and mail delivery can falter briefly. Do not schedule it for the day a campaign announcement goes out. Start the process from the domain transfer page.
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