The .lat Domain: A Short Ending for Latin American Identity
.lat entered the root zone on 4 December 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 16 October 2014, and the contracting party today is XYZ.COM LLC. The three-letter ending is positioned in the registry's own material around Latin American identity and belonging. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 353,487 registrations, of which 188,965 sit in the zone file.
Commercial projects addressing the region, publishers producing Spanish and Portuguese content, community sites and brands looking for a short address all use the zone. The registry defines no documented geographic condition or eligibility test. Try candidates through a .lat domain search, and look at the .lgbt page, run by the same operator.
With 353,487 registrations this is among the larger zones in the group, yet the count present in the zone file stops at 188,965, meaning only one registered name in two is genuinely live. Reading those figures separately misleads. Size alone does not mean everything is taken: a substantial part of the unpublished names is being held back or kept for resale. In practice, if the name you want does not load, do not assume it is free, because it may well be registered; at the same time, real room remains in two-word descriptive patterns. Check the status of a name rather than inferring it.
.LAT Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation XYZ.COM LLC
- ICANN registry agreement 16 October 2014
- Root zone record 4 December 2014
- Registered domains 353,487 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 188,965 names, about 53%
- Eligibility requirement No documented condition
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .lat domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.lat 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
$35.90 /year -
Transfer
$35.90 /year -
Renewal
$41.90 /year -
Restore
$144.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.81
Included With Every .lat 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.
.lat Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .lat 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 .lat 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 .lat 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 $7.81 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 .lat 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
.lat Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.lat Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .lat domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.lat Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .lat Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry has defined no documented geographic condition or eligibility test.
The agreement carries no list of voluntary commitments either, so residency, citizenship and language are not examined. The ending does carry a strong sense of belonging, though, and a visitor expects a business turned towards the region. Without that connection, think early about what the address is saying.
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You can. Size on its own does not mean the names are exhausted.
Of 353,487 registrations only 188,965 appear in the zone file, so close to half have never gone live. Short single-word stems are largely taken, yet two-word descriptive patterns still hold real room. To try several patterns at once, use the bulk domain name search.
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Not necessarily. This zone holds a large number of registered names that were never published.
A zone-file share stopping at 53 percent shows exactly that: an address may fail to open in a browser while the name sits with someone. The reliable method is to check rather than infer; you can see whether a name is registered and when through whois search.
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Keeping language versions in subdirectories under one address usually creates less work.
A separate address makes sense only when the teams and the measurement are separate too; otherwise certificates, content and renewal dates all multiply. For a campaign aimed specifically at the region a separate address can be justified, but when the campaign ends, redirect it to the relevant page instead of switching it off.
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Any page taking a form, a sign-up or a payment does.
The operator enforces no mandatory HTTPS regime here, so the choice is yours. On projects addressing the region, however, most visitors arrive over mobile connections, where the browser warning occupies a larger share of the screen. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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