The .lease Domain: An Address That States the Business
.lease entered the root zone on 3 April 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 6 March 2014, and the contracting party today is Binky Moon, LLC. The word names a rental contract in English, so the address says what you do at first glance. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 2,492 registrations, of which 1,788 sit in the zone file.
Vehicle hire companies, plant and equipment renters, office and warehouse services, finance leasing firms and long-term residential letting projects all use the zone. No eligibility condition applies and no documents are requested. Try candidates through a .lease domain search, and compare the equipment-focused .equipment page.
In this zone the agreement requires registrars to have registrants undertake to comply with applicable law, and consumer protection, debt collection and financial disclosure are named in that clause explicitly. What the agreement does not carry is the licence declaration duty found in some endings tied to regulated sectors. The two should not be confused: if your business amounts to finance leasing or consumer credit, the permissions you need arise from the activity itself, and a domain neither confers nor substitutes for them. The address states what you do; evidencing your authority on the page remains your responsibility.
.LEASE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Inc.
- ICANN registry agreement 6 March 2014
- Root zone record 3 April 2014
- Registered domains 2,492 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 1,788 names, about 72%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .lease domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.lease 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
$12.90 /year -
Transfer
$55.89 /year -
Renewal
$60.19 /year -
Restore
$154.90 -
Late Renewal
$10.24
Included With Every .lease 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.
.lease Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .lease 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 .lease 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 .lease 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 $10.24 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 .lease 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
.lease Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.lease Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .lease domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.lease Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .lease Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The zone applies no eligibility condition and requests no documents.
The agreement treats the string as a dictionary term, so the operator cannot draw a line based on identity. A visitor does expect a rental service behind the address, though; if what you offer is a product for sale, the address will not meet that expectation. Choosing a stem that names the asset you rent also helps directly in search results.
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You may, but that duty arises from your activity rather than from the domain.
The agreement only requires an undertaking to comply with applicable law and names consumer protection and financial disclosure explicitly; a licence declaration is not part of this zone. The address is therefore not a permit. If your business requires authorisation, display it clearly on the page and publish your contract terms.
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They separate the length of the term and the weight of the contract.
For daily or weekly short-term hire, the ending suggesting a brief period reads more naturally. For annual agreements, fleet arrangements or finance leasing, the ending naming the contract meets the expectation better. To try both at once, use the bulk domain name search.
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Here the small size converts directly into an opportunity.
The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 records 2,492 registrations, of which 1,788 sit in the zone file, roughly 72 percent. Because the count is low, one- and two-word descriptive stems are largely free; recognition is limited in exchange, which makes keeping your brand in the stem the safer construction.
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Contract, deposit and return conditions need to be readable in the text itself.
Putting that information only into a downloadable file means neither a search engine nor a screen reader can see it. If you also collect identity or payment details, the page must carry a certificate; on a high-value agreement a browser warning drives visitors away immediately. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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