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 No documents are required to register a .homes 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.
.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 /year -
Transfer
$15.69 /year -
Renewal
$16.89 /year -
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
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .homes 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 .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 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 .homes 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 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 .homes 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
.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 No documents are required to register a .homes domain
- 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
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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