The .irish Domain: An Ending With an Irish Ring
.irish was recorded in the root zone on 2 December 2014; its ICANN registry agreement is dated 7 August 2014 and its type is "Base, Non-Sponsored", meaning it is not a community TLD. The party to that agreement today is Binky Moon, LLC. The nTLDstats page accessed on 28 October 2026 shows 4,923 registrations, 4,755 of them in the zone file.
The Irish diaspora, cultural associations, music and dance groups and businesses addressing the Irish market all use the ending. Although the word carries a country association, there is no residency, citizenship or ancestry requirement. Try candidates through an .irish domain search, and look at the .international page for a corporate tone.
4,755 of 4,923 registrations appear in the zone file, which means about 97% of registered names point to a name server. The decision rule for a name that reads as taken is simple: before giving up, consider reaching the holder or testing a close variant. And do not leave your own address idle for a year: a name that is not published does no work beyond holding value.
.IRISH Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Agreement type Base, Non-Sponsored (not a community TLD)
- ICANN registry agreement 7 August 2014
- Root zone record 2 December 2014
- Registered names 4,923 (nTLDstats, 28 October 2026)
- Present in the zone file 4,755 names, about 97%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .irish domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 13 servers
.irish 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
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$22.09 /year -
Renewal
$23.79 /year -
Restore
$109.90 -
Late Renewal Surcharge
+$3.07 on top of the renewal fee
Included With Every .irish 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.
.irish Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .irish 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 .irish 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 .irish 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 $3.07 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 .irish 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
.irish Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.irish Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .irish domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 13 servers
.irish Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .irish Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No; there is no residency, citizenship or ancestry requirement.
The agreement type is recorded as "Base, Non-Sponsored", meaning this is not a community TLD and no eligibility check takes place. No documents are requested either. Because the address does evoke Ireland, though, visitors look for a local connection on the page; without one, the ending will not meet the expectation.
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4,755 of 4,923 registrations appear in the zone file, roughly 97 percent.
That means almost every registered name points to a name server. If the name you want is taken, testing a close variant or trying to reach the holder is a sensible next step. You can sweep a candidate list in one pass with bulk domain name search.
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A local phone number, delivery times, the currency and a local address where you have one.
Those four details cut hesitation more than anything else when buying from a distant seller. Translating the page is not enough on its own; match the units of measurement and date format to local use as well. Test candidate domains together with bulk domain name search.
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Pick .irish for a single market, .international when describing a multi-country structure.
The first builds cultural closeness and speaks to a narrow audience; the second is inclusive but longer. Try both in one search round and see which reads more naturally with your root; the .international page suits the comparison.
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You can; an authorisation code is enough and the operator requests no extra documents.
ICANN's transfer policy allows a 60-day wait on a name that was just registered or recently transferred. Before you move, confirm that your contact address still reaches you; whois search shows the record's current state.
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