The .gift Domain: One Gesture, Named Precisely
.gift was recorded in the root zone on 9 January 2014, and the contracting party in the IANA entry is still Uniregistry, Corp.; that record was last updated on 9 June 2026. Tucows.com, Co. appears as the technical contact and runs the infrastructure. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 7,647 registrations, of which 5,067 appear in the zone file.
The registry positions the ending for gift shops, craft makers and organisations running gifting or charitable campaigns. Its singular form is strongest when it names one gesture: a campaign, a voucher page, a seasonal landing page. Try candidates with a .gift domain search, and if you are building a catalogue rather than a campaign, compare the .gifts page.
.game left the same portfolio for another company in 2022, but .gift did not move: the contracting party in the IANA entry remains Uniregistry, Corp., and the record was refreshed in June 2026. Knowing this changes three practical things — which registration policy binds you, which procedure applies in a dispute, and who answers a corporate question. Statistics sites may print a different company name for this zone; the record that counts is the contracting party at IANA.
.GIFT Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Uniregistry, Corp.
- Infrastructure provider Tucows.com, Co.
- Root zone record 9 January 2014
- IANA record last updated 9 June 2026
- Registered names 7,647 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 5,067 names, about 66%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gift domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gift 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
$22.90 /year -
Transfer
$24.69 /year -
Renewal
$26.59 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.84
Included With Every .gift 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.
.gift Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .gift 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 .gift 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 .gift 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 $4.84 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 .gift 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
.gift Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.gift Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gift domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gift Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .gift Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Beyond the spelling, the registry operators differ: one sits with Uniregistry, Corp., the other with Binky Moon, LLC.
The singular names one gesture or campaign; the plural names a selection of products. Since a name in one grants nothing in the other, check both separately when protecting a brand. You can look at the plural form on the .gifts page.
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It does. Being short and unambiguous, it reads well in print and on a card.
The usual mistake with voucher addresses is closing them once the campaign ends: cards sit in drawers and get typed in a year later. Keeping the address alive and pointing it at a short page explaining how to redeem the voucher takes a real bite out of the support load.
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Choose a root that carries the theme and leave the year out of it.
An address containing a year cannot be reused next season, and buying a fresh one each time costs money and creates confusion. Reusing the same name every season and moving the archive to sub-pages stays cleaner. Because campaign traffic peaks in a short window, assess the hosting side on the hosting page as well.
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Of 7,647 registrations, 5,067 appear in the zone file — about 66%.
One name in three has never gone live. Because the zone is small, short descriptive roots can still be found. To try several candidates in a single pass, use the bulk domain name search.
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Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and no extra documents are needed.
In gift retail, avoid the weeks before the winter holidays: on the busiest ordering days a short interruption translates directly into lost sales. Before starting, confirm you can reach the mailbox where order notifications land. Begin from the domain transfer page.
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