The .land Domain: An Ending Wider Than Real Estate
.land entered the root zone on 8 November 2013 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 10 September 2013, and the contracting party today is Binky Moon, LLC. The word carries both ground and country in English, so the ending is not tied to a single sector. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 27,922 registrations, of which 21,132 sit in the zone file.
Plot and acreage sellers, property developers, farming businesses, camping and nature tourism projects, and the game and entertainment worlds the word evokes all share the zone. No eligibility condition applies and no documents are requested. Try candidates through a .land domain search, and compare the property-focused .estate page.
In Specification 11 §4(a) of its ICANN agreement the operator recorded that it treats this string as a generic or dictionary term and undertook to run the zone inclusively. One thing the text prohibits specifically: reserving names for applicants whose work matches only the most common usage of the term. So although plots and property come to mind first, anyone working with the word's other senses applies on equal footing. A theme park, a game world, a farming cooperative or a country promotion project all find a legitimate place in this zone. The rule that follows: the stem draws the distinction, not the ending, so write the sense you work in into the stem.
.LAND Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Inc.
- ICANN registry agreement 10 September 2013
- Root zone record 8 November 2013
- Registered domains 27,922 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 21,132 names, about 76%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .land domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.land 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$41.59 /year -
Renewal
$44.79 /year -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .land 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.
.land Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .land 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 .land 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 .land 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 $6.73 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 .land 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
.land Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.land Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .land domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.land Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .land Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The agreement expressly forbids the operator from reserving names for the term's most common usage.
Plots and property come to mind first, yet farming, camping, nature tourism, theme parks and game worlds all hold a legitimate place in this zone. No document or sector registration is requested. A visitor does expect a place or an area behind the address, so choose a stem that says which sense you work in.
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One names the physical ground, the other the ownership and sale process.
If you sell plots, fields, vineyards or natural areas, the ending that names the ground reads more directly. If you manage a residential portfolio, advise clients or run sale transactions, the ending that names ownership meets the expectation better. The two zones may sit with different operators, so check each rulebook separately.
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Of 27,922 registrations, 21,132 sit in the zone file according to the nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026, roughly 76 percent.
Three registered names in four are attached to a site, which shows the zone is not dominated by parking. The rule that follows: common single-word stems can be treated as largely exhausted, while two-word patterns combining a region or a service remain more productive. Test them together through the bulk domain name search.
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Listing pages need location, area and zoning status written into the text itself.
Leaving that information only in an image or a map means neither a search engine nor a screen reader can read it. If you also collect enquiry forms, the page needs a certificate; a browser warning drives visitors away immediately on a high-value transaction. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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Yes. The zone follows the standard gTLD transfer rules.
Lift the lock, obtain the authorisation code, then open the request at the receiving provider. The problem most common to property sites is that external links pointing at listing pages fail during the brief interruption, so schedule the move for a day when listing traffic is low. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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