The .green Domain: An Address for Environmental Work
.green was recorded in the root zone on 12 June 2014, and the IANA entry names Identity Digital Limited as the contracting party — the group's own legal entity rather than one of its subsidiaries. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 13,465 registrations, of which 8,252 appear in the zone file; the remainder have never gone live.
The ending sits naturally with renewable energy, recycling, sustainable manufacturing, consultancy and non-profit work. No eligibility condition applies, and the registry asks nobody for an environmental certificate. Try candidates through a .green domain search, and compare the growing side of the same theme on the .garden page.
For this zone the registry agreement obliges registrars to bind registrants to comply with applicable law, and the clause names both consumer-protection rules on misleading and deceptive conduct and organic farming legislation by name. The registry itself checks no environmental claim whatsoever. Two things follow: the word at the end of an address proves nothing on its own, and if you are going to make a claim, put the standard, the certificate number and the certifying body on the page where a reader can find them.
.GREEN Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Identity Digital Limited
- ICANN registry agreement 8 May 2014
- Root zone record 12 June 2014
- Registered names 13,465 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 8,252 names, about 61%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .green domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.green 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
$9.99 /year -
Transfer
$86.99 /year -
Renewal
$86.99 /year -
Restore
$184.90 -
Late Renewal
$15.36
Included With Every .green 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.
.green Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .green 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 .green 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 .green 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 $15.36 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 .green 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
.green Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.green Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .green domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.green Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .green Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry operates no eligibility condition and verifies no credentials in this zone.
The reverse also holds: the address proves nobody's environmental claim. If you want the ending to build trust, state which standard you are audited against, the certificate number and its expiry date. Where you publish measurements, name the method too — a figure without a visible source persuades nobody.
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Most organisations leave the main site untouched and gather the sustainability programme here.
Reports, carbon accounting, supply-chain policy and grant programmes in one place mean journalists and auditors find what they came for quickly. Link the two addresses to each other, and resist duplicating text: the same page living at two addresses only splits your readers and your search results.
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Of 13,465 registrations, 8,252 appear in the zone file — about 61%.
Two names in five have never gone live, which points to defensive brand registrations and names held for later. Do not assume a taken root has a working site behind it. Generate alternatives instead and test them together through the bulk domain name search.
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By tying every claim to a measurement, a certificate or an independent audit.
Replace general phrasing with figures: which year, which scope, which method. Naming what falls outside the scope helps as well, because a limitation you disclose yourself cannot be used against you later. Remove certificates once they lapse — a stale one raises more questions than none at all.
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Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and the registry requires no additional documents.
On an address that hosts published reports, confirm before moving that certificate coverage stays unbroken: stakeholders arrive by direct link, and a browser warning sends them straight back. Afterwards, check that the certificate is served correctly from the SSL checker page.
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