The .hospital Domain: An Ending for Care Providers
.hospital entered the root zone on 2 December 2016, and its ICANN registry agreement is dated 20 October 2016 with Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party. The zone has stayed small: the nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 lists 2,458 registrations, of which 1,972 appear in the zone file. Single-word roots are still available, though recognition is correspondingly thin.
Hospitals, private clinic groups, teaching hospitals, outpatient centres and patient information sites all use the ending. The operator asks for no documents at registration, yet the ICANN agreement requires the registrant to represent that it holds the authorisations and licences needed to operate in the sector. Test candidates through a .hospital domain search, and weigh the wider reading on the .healthcare page.
This TLD's ICANN agreement carries an extra commitment list written for regulated sectors. Registrars must obtain from the registrant a representation that it holds the authorisations, charters and licences required for the sector, and must require that material changes to those credentials be reported. If a complaint questions their authenticity, the operator consults the relevant national supervisory authorities. So nobody collects paperwork before a name is created, but a false statement becomes a contractual breach. Read it the same way as a patient: the ending is not accreditation, so confirm the licence on the page where the provider publishes it.
.HOSPITAL Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- ICANN registry agreement 20 October 2016
- Root zone record 2 December 2016
- Registered names 2,458 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 1,972 names, about 80%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .hospital domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.hospital 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
$54.99 /year -
Transfer
$57.19 /year -
Renewal
$61.59 /year -
Restore
$169.90 -
Late Renewal
$10.78
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.hospital Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .hospital 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 .hospital 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 .hospital 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 $10.78 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 .hospital 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
.hospital Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.hospital Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .hospital domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.hospital Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .hospital Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No licence document is requested at registration, but the agreement creates a duty to represent.
Your registrar's agreement makes you state that you hold the authorisations and licences needed to operate in the sector, and you must report material changes to them. The right to provide care itself comes from your own country's law, never from a domain name. The address does not evidence a licence, so publish yours on the site separately.
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Both sit with the same operator, yet their contractual obligations differ.
The .hospital agreement carries the extra commitments drafted for regulated sectors; the .healthcare agreement does not, and runs on the general open-registration set. For naming, the split is plainer: .hospital describes an institution with beds, emergency cover and clinical services, while .healthcare also covers insurance, consultancy and care services. Compare the two on the .healthcare page.
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1,972 of 2,458 registrations appear in the zone file, roughly 80 percent.
The ratio is high while the zone is small, and together those two facts say something useful: names here are being used rather than parked, but the pool is far from exhausted. Combinations adding a city or a speciality are largely untaken. Run a long candidate list at once through bulk domain name search.
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If you run appointment or test-result forms, certificates and access logging come first.
The agreement requires registrants who collect sensitive health data to apply security measures proportionate to the service offered. In practice that means serving every page encrypted, putting forms behind separate authorisation, and logging who viewed which record. Check the state of your certificate with the SSL checker.
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You can; the move runs on an authorisation code and the operator asks for no extra papers.
In care organisations the real obstacle is ownership: the name often sits with a former agency, an IT staffer or a dissolved company, and no authorised person can be found when the transfer starts. Look up the current holder through whois search and fix the ownership first if needed.
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