The .haus Domain: A German Word for Building and Home
.haus was recorded in the root zone on 26 March 2014; its ICANN registry agreement is dated 5 December 2013 and names Dog Beach, LLC as the contracting party. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 10,735 registrations, of which 8,466 appear in the zone file — roughly four names in five.
Builders, architecture practices, interior designers, estate agents and home-service trades all use the ending, and design studios often wear it as part of the brand. Try candidates through a .haus domain search, and see how a genuinely restricted city ending differs on the .hamburg page.
The name is German, but this is not a regional ending. The commitment in the registry agreement says the zone will be run without an identity-based eligibility limit and that lawful users applying the term in its less common sense will not be shut out. Nothing requires you to be based in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The decision rule that follows is straightforward: pick this ending for the language, not the geography. If your audience reads German the name does its job; if they do not, the same root works better elsewhere.
.HAUS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- ICANN registry agreement 5 December 2013
- Root zone record 26 March 2014
- Registered names 10,735 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 8,466 names, about 79%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .haus domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.haus 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$33.79 /year -
Renewal
$36.39 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.29
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Free DNS management
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.haus Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .haus 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 .haus 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 .haus 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 $6.29 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 .haus 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
.haus Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.haus Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .haus domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.haus Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .haus Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The commitment in the registry agreement says the zone runs without any identity-based eligibility limit.
The address is a linguistic signal and nothing more. A manufacturer selling into German-speaking markets, or an architecture practice looking for clients there, can hold this name from anywhere. Judge by the language your audience reads rather than by where the company is registered.
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The split is about the work: this ending suggests building, while property endings suggest buying and selling.
If contracting, renovation or manufacturing is your business, a name here describes it directly. If you list a portfolio and broker deals, choose the root word accordingly. Holding both is common too, with one address for the company and the other for listings.
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Of 10,735 registrations, 8,466 appear in the zone file — about 79%.
Four names in five resolve to a server, so this is a small zone that is genuinely working. Short single-word roots are largely gone, while combinations adding a city or a speciality remain available. Test candidates together through the bulk domain name search.
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The service area, a phone number that gets answered, and photographs of completed work.
Visitors in this trade usually arrive with something urgent, and leaving out the districts you cover wastes half the calls you receive. Say whether a site visit is chargeable as well. Where you hold trade certifications, quote the registration number rather than the logo alone.
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Yes. The transfer runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra documents.
On project and site addresses ownership is the usual sticking point: the name often still stands in the name of a former agency or a departed employee. Check who holds it today from the whois search page before you begin, and correct the ownership first if needed.
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