The .gold Domain: The Metal and the Top Tier
.gold was recorded in the root zone on 12 March 2015, and the IANA entry names Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party. The zone was first delegated to June Edge, LLC and moved to its present holder in the 2018 bulk transfer. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 24,316 registrations, of which 15,070 appear in the zone file.
The ending does two jobs at once: literal uses in jewellery, refining and bullion trading, and figurative ones where it marks a premium product or a top membership tier. Try candidates with a .gold domain search, and look at its neighbour on the sporting side through the .golf page.
A visitor will read this address as being about the metal itself or about a top tier, and the root word decides which. For a jeweller, a refiner or a bullion dealer the root should be concrete; for a membership or support package it should carry the name of the service. Trying to serve both from one address gives the weakest result, because the visitor cannot tell within the first second what you actually do. Keep price and purity out of the name — both change, the address does not.
.GOLD Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- Root zone record 12 March 2015
- Registered names 24,316 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 15,070 names, about 62%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gold domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gold 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.
-
New Registration
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$103.99 /year -
Renewal
$111.99 /year -
Restore
$229.90 -
Late Renewal
$20.48
Included With Every .gold Domain
-
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.
-
Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
-
Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
-
Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.gold Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .gold 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 .gold 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 .gold 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 $20.48 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 .gold 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
.gold Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.gold Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gold domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gold Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .gold Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
-
It does. The ending states the product category in one word and matches how people search.
Trust is what a visitor looks for in this trade: the trading name, a shop address, carat and certification details should lead. If you sell online, putting shipping insurance and return terms on a page of their own answers most incoming questions in advance. Keep the price on the page, not in the name; the market moves during the day.
-
It is, provided the root carries the name of the service; otherwise the address floats free.
With a brand or a service word in front, the address explains the tier by itself. Rather than splitting tiers across separate domains, most teams keep them as pages under one address — a more sustainable arrangement, since renaming a tier then leaves the address untouched.
-
Of 24,316 registrations, 15,070 appear in the zone file — about 62%.
More than one name in three has never gone live. That is the pattern you would expect around a word with a strong figurative sense: names get taken and held for later use. Do not assume a taken root has a working site behind it; generate alternatives and test them through the bulk domain name search.
-
Both entered the root zone on the same day, 12 March 2015, and were delegated six days later.
Their sizes are close as well: 24,316 and 23,733 registrations. Their publication rates, however, part company — 62% here against 78% there. Two zones opened on one day behaving differently shows that what matters is how a word is used, not when the ending launched.
-
Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra documents.
On a site selling precious metals, confirm before moving that certificate coverage stays unbroken: in this trade a single warning at the payment step ends the purchase outright. Afterwards, check the certificate is being served correctly from the SSL checker page.
Ready to Claim Your .gold Domain?
Type a name and see in seconds whether it is free on .gold. If it is taken, we list close alternatives right away.
Get Help for .gold Domain Registration
Need help registering a .gold domain? Our team is ready to assist.