The .kim Domain: A Short Ending for Personal Addresses
.kim was recorded in the root zone on 19 December 2013 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 23 September 2013, and the IANA root zone entry lists Identity Digital Limited as the contracting party. A three-letter ending leaves room for personal addresses that keep the stem short. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 records 12,128 registrations in the zone.
The operator has defined no separate eligibility condition for this ending; the agreement carries only the standard commitments found in every new extension and includes no list of voluntary undertakings. Personal pages, portfolios and small projects therefore apply on identical terms. Try candidates through a .kim domain search, and look at the .life page for personal addresses too.
.KIM Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Identity Digital Limited
- ICANN registry agreement 23 September 2013
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Registered domains 12,128 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 7,897 names, about 65%
- Eligibility requirement None defined
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .kim domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.kim 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
$11.49 /year -
Transfer
$23.39 /year -
Renewal
$25.19 /year -
Restore
$109.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.10
Included With Every .kim 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.
.kim Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .kim 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 .kim 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 .kim 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 $4.10 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 .kim 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
.kim Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.kim Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .kim domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.kim Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .kim Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone. The operator has defined no eligibility condition for this ending.
The agreement carries only the standard commitments present in every new extension: registration agreement clauses that prohibit abuse, periodic security analysis and a published, transparent registration policy. There is no document, profession or country condition. A personal page and a corporate project therefore follow exactly the same steps.
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Because once an address is shared aloud, length turns directly into error rate.
A three-letter ending lets you keep the stem short and pulls the total length down. That matters when the address is spoken on a business card, in a talk or over the phone and has to be typed correctly first time. Read your candidates out loud; if you find yourself spelling them letter by letter, drop them. Run the checks through domain name search.
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Of 12,128 registrations, 7,897 sit in the zone file according to the nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026, roughly 65 percent.
That tells you about one registered name in three is not yet attached to a site, being held back or kept for resale. So if the name you want fails to load a page, do not read that as availability, because it remains registered. Confirm the position through whois search.
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Yes. The zone follows the standard gTLD transfer rules.
Lift the lock on the name, obtain the authorisation code, then start the request at the receiving provider. The failure most common to personal addresses is an old registration email that nobody reads any more: the approval message lands there and the transfer stalls without warning. Update your contact address first, then continue from the domain transfer page.
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Yes, even without a contact form or a sign-up.
Browsers mark addresses served without a certificate as not secure, and on a personal page that warning costs credibility. If the address carries a CV or a portfolio, the warning may be the first thing a prospective employer sees. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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