The .futbol Domain: The Game in Its Own Spelling
.futbol was recorded in the root zone on 6 February 2014, and the contracting party in the IANA entry today is Dog Beach, LLC. The zone was first delegated to United TLD Holdco, LTD and passed to its current holder on 2 June 2021. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 3,819 registrations, of which 2,213 appear in the zone file.
What sets this ending apart is not its meaning but its spelling: futbol is the form used in Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish, while the English spelling lives in a separate ending. The address therefore signals, at a glance, which language your audience searches in. Try club, supporter and academy names with a .futbol domain search, then weigh the English spelling on the .football page.
.futbol and .football describe the same sport but speak to two audiences searching in different languages, and today they answer to different registry operators. The decision rule is straightforward: if your visitors search mainly in Spanish, Portuguese or Turkish, this spelling reads correctly to them. For a brand that operates across those markets, holding both spellings removes the confusion and the traffic lost to a mistyped address.
.FUTBOL Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- Root zone record 6 February 2014
- Transfer to current holder 2 June 2021
- Registered names 3,819 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 2,213 names, about 58%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .futbol domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.futbol 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
$15.00 /year -
Transfer
$16.89 /year -
Renewal
$18.19 /year -
Restore
$104.90 -
Late Renewal
$3.30
Included With Every .futbol 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.
.futbol Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .futbol 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 .futbol 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 .futbol 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 $3.30 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 .futbol 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
.futbol Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.futbol Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .futbol domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.futbol Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .futbol Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The two endings also answer to different registry operators.
.futbol sits with Dog Beach, LLC and carries the Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish spelling. The ending with the English spelling belongs to a separate contracting party and has a far larger zone. They are not siblings; they are two addresses covering one sport in different languages. Compare them on the .football page.
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Yes. The zone is small, so a club's own name may still be free.
The recurring problem at amateur level is a name scattered across social accounts with no permanent address behind it. Gathering the fixture list, the squad and contact details at one address stops information disappearing when the committee changes. Choosing a short, readable root also pays off on a sign or a shirt.
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Of 3,819 registrations, 2,213 appear in the zone file — about 58%.
Two names in every five have never gone live. If the name you want is taken, there may be no working site behind it, though that does not mean it will be released: renewal is the holder's decision. Generating alternatives and testing several at once is faster through the bulk domain name search.
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It affects the hosting behind the address rather than the address itself.
Football sites take sudden load at kick-off and during transfer windows, then sit quiet for ordinary weeks. On fixed capacity that pattern means either waste or an outage. For projects with a spiky load curve, comparing the environments on the hosting page is a decision to make before the season starts.
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Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and the registry requires no documents.
At clubs the obstacle is rarely technical: the address is often still registered to a former committee member, so the approval message arrives in a mailbox nobody opens. Move the registrant to the club's legal name first, then begin from the domain transfer page.
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