The .homes Domain: A Broad Zone for Residential Property
.homes was recorded in the root zone on 1 May 2014; its ICANN registry agreement is dated 9 January 2014 and the present contracting party is XYZ.COM LLC. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 179,224 registrations, of which 102,573 appear in the zone file — a little over half of the names registered.
Estate agencies, developers, listing sites, home service firms and furniture brands all use this address. The registry describes its audience as the whole of the home industry. Try candidates through a .homes domain search, and look at the building side on the .haus page.
The registry positions the ending for the residential property sector, yet its published registration policies contain no eligibility condition and no professional check. That cuts both ways. An address carrying listings does not show that the person behind it holds an agent's licence, and what a licence even requires differs from country to country. When you are house-hunting, look at the licence and the land registry rather than the address. And when presenting your own agency, put the licence number, the professional body and a street address on the page — the visitor looking for that detail is already comparing you with someone else.
.HOMES Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation XYZ.COM LLC
- ICANN registry agreement 9 January 2014
- Root zone record 1 May 2014
- Registered names 179,224 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 102,573 names, about 57%
- Document Requirement There are no requirements for buying .homes domain registration
- 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.
.homes 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
$1.99 / years -
Transfer
$15.69 / years -
Renewal
$16.89 / years -
Restore
$119.90
Included With Every .homes 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.
.homes Domain Lifecycle
Domain lifecycle
The stages in order, from registration to releaseDomain Is Available (Available)
A .homes 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 yours for the term you chose. You can renew at any point before expiry to keep it uninterrupted, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Redemption Period (Redemption Period)
The domain is not released the moment it expires — during this window it is still yours and can be recovered. Some extensions charge an extra restore fee at this stage, so renewing before expiry is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete Period (Pending Delete Period)
If the redemption window is missed too, the domain enters the final stage and waits to be deleted. Renewal and recovery are no longer possible here; when the period ends the registration is removed for good.
Domain Is Available Again
Once deletion completes, the domain leaves the system and anyone can register it — popular names are often taken the same minute by someone watching. Keep auto-renewal on so a name you care about never gets this far.
.homes Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.homes Domain Registration
- Document Requirement There are no requirements for buying .homes domain registration
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.homes Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
.homes Domain Registration Periods
- Registration Periods 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 years
- Renewal Periods 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 years
- Pre-registration 1 days
- Accounting Period 1 days
- Finalization Period 1 days
- Failure Period 1 days
- Payment Period 1 days
- Redemption Period 1 days
- Deletion Hold Period 1 days
- Renewal Time 1 Day
Frequently Asked Questions About .homes Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry's published policies contain no eligibility condition and no professional check.
Authority comes from the activity and from the law where you operate, not from the domain. Where agency work is licensed, show your licence number on the page. Where you hold none, find out what the rules allow before you publish listings — the address grants you nothing here.
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Of 179,224 registrations, 102,573 appear in the zone file — about 57%.
Nearly half the registered names have never gone live. Because the zone is large, the root you wanted may well come back as taken, but do not assume a working site sits behind it. Prepare a second and third candidate and test them together through the bulk domain name search.
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Yes. Housing developments are known by their own name and need an identity of their own through the sales period.
Keep the development address separate from the corporate one, but link them both ways. When sales complete, turn the address into a management and contact page rather than closing it: residents keep looking for the same address for years, and post-handover requests arrive through it.
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Location, service charge, heating type and which floor a property sits on.
Adding more photographs does not compensate for those gaps, because the person searching wants to compare. Show the date a listing was last updated as well: leaving sold properties in the list damages trust directly. Watch page weight too — a gallery that crawls on mobile ends the search itself.
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Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra documents.
The hidden risk on a listing site is mail flow: enquiry forms and automated alerts arriving at mailboxes on this domain will bounce silently if the records do not carry across. Take a copy of the existing mail records first, then begin from the domain transfer page.
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