The .gallery Domain: An Address for Work on Show
.gallery was recorded in the root zone on 8 November 2013, making it one of the first-generation new endings; the IANA entry names Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party. The zone was delegated first to Sugar House, LLC and passed to its present holder in the 2018 bulk transfer. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 22,525 registrations, of which 17,676 appear in the zone file.
The ending closes directly on art galleries, exhibition spaces, photographers and designer portfolios. After an artist's name it promises a selection of work rather than a personal homepage, which sets a visitor's expectation in the right place. Test candidates with a .gallery domain search, and if the business sells design services rather than showing work, compare the .graphics page.
.gallery and .graphics were entered in the root zone on the same day, 8 November 2013. Twelve years later the first holds 22,525 registrations and the second 6,686 — so the start date explains nothing about the size of a zone today. What decides it is how widely the word is used in ordinary speech: gallery covers both a physical exhibition space and an online set of images. The rule to take away: measure how many jobs a word does, not how old the ending is.
.GALLERY Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- Root zone record 8 November 2013
- Registered names 22,525 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 17,676 names, about 78%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gallery domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gallery 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
$26.50 /year -
Transfer
$26.52 /year -
Renewal
$29.17 /year -
Restore
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Late Renewal
$5.83
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.gallery Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .gallery 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 .gallery 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 .gallery 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 $5.83 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 .gallery 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
.gallery Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.gallery Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gallery domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gallery Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .gallery Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The word covers both a physical exhibition space and an online set of images.
Photographers, illustrators, architecture practices and makers use the ending as well. The root word does the sorting: an artist's name promises a portfolio, a city name promises a venue, a product name promises a catalogue. Choose the root by asking what a visitor should expect to find.
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It will. Page weight is where portfolios most often come undone.
High-resolution photographs of work accumulate quickly and stretch the time to first paint. Keeping the cover image small and loading detail shots on request is the simplest way to protect quality without losing the visitor. For a site that serves images constantly, compare the environments on the hosting page.
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The test is simple: showing work points one way, selling a service points the other.
On a site presenting a selection, an exhibition or an archive, the visitor comes to browse. At a studio selling design work, the visitor comes to request a quote, and the page is built around that. The two entered the root zone on one day yet serve different jobs now. Compare them on the .graphics page.
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Of 22,525 registrations, 17,676 appear in the zone file — around 78%.
Most names have genuinely been pointed at a server. Distinctive roots such as an artist's own name remain findable, while general words like art, photo or a city name are largely gone. Testing several candidates at once through the bulk domain name search saves a good deal of time.
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Yes. The move runs on an authorisation code and needs no extra documents.
For galleries and portfolios, schedule it outside an opening or a fair week: in those days the address printed on the invitation and the press release is the most clicked link you have. Confirm first that you can reach the mailbox behind the contact form. Start from the domain transfer page.
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