The .gripe Domain: Give the Complaint Its Own Address
.gripe joined the root zone on 3 April 2014; its ICANN registry agreement is dated 6 March 2014 and names Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party. The word describes a running complaint rather than a one-off objection. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 lists 1,735 registrations, 1,495 of them present in the zone file.
That is a small zone with a high publication rate, so most people who take a name here actually use it. Two patterns dominate: a company running its own complaints channel, and an independent feedback or consumer platform. Try candidates through a .gripe domain search, or look at the support-side neighbour on the .help page.
The public interest commitment in the registry agreement is unusually explicit: the operator undertakes to run the zone in an inclusive manner, not to limit eligibility by identity, and not to disenfranchise lawful users associated with a minority usage of the term. Criticism is precisely the use that sentence protects. It is not legal immunity, though: trademark law, personality rights and local legislation all still apply, so choose a name that cannot be mistaken for the company you are writing about.
.GRIPE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- ICANN registry agreement 6 March 2014
- Root zone record 3 April 2014
- Registered names 1,735 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 1,495 names, about 86%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gripe domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gripe 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
$35.50 /year -
Transfer
$34.99 /year -
Renewal
$38.49 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.70
Included With Every .gripe 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.
.gripe Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .gripe 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 .gripe 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 .gripe 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 $7.70 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 .gripe 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
.gripe Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.gripe Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gripe domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gripe Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .gripe Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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As far as the registry is concerned, yes: there is no eligibility rule and no content-based refusal.
Choosing the name is a separate matter. A root that simply reproduces the trademark invites confusion and a rights dispute, and those are handled through domain dispute procedures. Take advice on your own situation; in practice the safer route is a descriptive root that names the issue rather than the company.
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It buys control more than it creates risk: complaints you host are complaints you can see.
The condition is that the channel genuinely works. Publish a response time, number each case and tell people the outcome when you close one. A complaint form nobody answers does more damage than no form at all, because the screenshot ends up somewhere you do not control.
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There are 1,735 registrations and 1,495 appear in the zone file — about 86%.
That is one of the higher rates here: a small zone, almost all of it in use. For a search it means short roots are largely still free, simply because so few names exist in total. Test several candidates at once through the bulk domain name search.
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Who runs it, what the claims rest on, and how something incorrect gets corrected.
Anonymity weakens even a well-founded criticism. Where you have documents, screenshots or correspondence, publish them with dates. Offer the other side a right of reply and put their corrections on the same page — that is the single practice that keeps a site like this sustainable.
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Yes. The transfer runs on an authorisation code and no extra documents are required.
On this kind of site the visibility of registrant data is a decision in itself: if you use a privacy service, confirm after the move that the setting survived, or your contact details may become public. You can see how the record looks today from the whois search page.
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