The .fyi Domain: A Short Ending for Useful Pages
.fyi was recorded in the root zone on 14 May 2015, and the IANA entry names Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party. The zone went first to Silver Tigers, LLC and moved to its present holder in the 2018 bulk transfer. The label comes from the everyday abbreviation for your information, and at three letters it is among the shortest endings covered in this group.
It closes well on explainer pages, notice boards, internal reference sites and short redirect addresses. Placed after an organisation's name, it tells a visitor to expect information rather than a sales pitch. Try candidates with a .fyi domain search, and if you want the older, more literal alternative, look at the .info page alongside it.
With 144,070 registrations .fyi is the second most populated zone in this group, yet only 63,135 of those names appear in the zone file — about 44%. Two names in every three have never been pointed at a server. The practical reading: do not abandon a search because the zone looks crowded, because the size here comes from names being held rather than used. Nor should you assume a taken root has a working site behind it.
.FYI Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- Root zone record 14 May 2015
- Registered names 144,070 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 63,135 names, about 44%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fyi domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fyi 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
$14.99 /year -
Transfer
$19.50 /year -
Renewal
$21.95 /year -
Restore
$104.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.39
Included With Every .fyi 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.
.fyi Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .fyi 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 .fyi 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 .fyi 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 $4.39 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 .fyi 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
.fyi Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.fyi Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .fyi domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.fyi Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .fyi Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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It is the everyday shorthand for the phrase for your information.
In correspondence it marks something passed along without a request for action. As an address it sets the same expectation: a visitor assumes an explanation, a notice or a reference page rather than a sales pitch. The shorthand is understood immediately by English-speaking audiences, which is where the ending works hardest.
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It is. A three-letter ending keeps the address short in print and on a slide.
Organisations often put a long campaign link behind a short address. When doing so, say clearly that the redirect is permanent and avoid breaking the old link when the destination changes. A redirect address still needs a certificate; check its state from the SSL checker page.
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The test is your audience's language: .info reads in any language, .fyi leans on English correspondence habits.
For readers outside English-speaking markets the abbreviation may need explaining, while the older ending is transparent everywhere. For an international team or a technical audience the shorthand gives a friendlier and shorter address. Weigh the classic option on the .info page.
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Less hard than it looks: only 44% of those registrations reach the zone file.
Most of the names are being held rather than used. The decision rule follows: keep testing single common words, but hold a fallback ready for the shortest ones. Pairing an organisation name with a topic word gives the highest hit rate in a zone shaped like this.
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Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and no extra documents are needed.
Because this ending is so often a redirect or an internal reference address, the overlooked risk is documentation: if you do not know where the link was published, you will not notice the interruption either. List the places the address appears, then start from the domain transfer page.
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