The .lighting Domain: An Ending for Work Built on Light
.lighting entered the root zone on 31 October 2013, the earliest of this group, under an ICANN registry agreement dated 27 August 2013, with Binky Moon, LLC as the party today. The word covers every trade built on light rather than a single profession. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 6,905 registrations, of which 5,368 sit in the zone file.
Lighting designers, chandelier and fixture retailers, electrical installers, stage and studio lighting firms, architectural lighting projects and smart home systems all use the zone. No eligibility condition applies and no documents are requested. Try candidates through a .lighting domain search, and compare the .energy page.
This ending was recorded in the root zone on 31 October 2013, the earliest opening in this group, yet today it sits among the smaller zones at 6,905 registrations. Given that endings launched far later in the same group have reached a hundred times that size, the date on its own tells you nothing. What decides the outcome is how many different jobs the word covers: broad words fill quickly, while words naming one speciality stay narrow but steady. The practical consequence is in your favour: one- and two-word descriptive stems remain largely free here and competition is low.
.LIGHTING Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Inc.
- ICANN registry agreement 27 August 2013
- Root zone record 31 October 2013
- Registered domains 6,905 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 5,368 names, about 78%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .lighting domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.lighting 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
$23.39 /year -
Renewal
$25.19 /year -
Restore
$114.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.39
Included With Every .lighting 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.
.lighting Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .lighting 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 .lighting 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 .lighting 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 $4.39 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 .lighting 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
.lighting Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.lighting Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .lighting domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.lighting Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .lighting 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. If you carry out installation work, however, the qualifications you need come from your own sector rules; the address neither provides nor replaces them. Showing those credentials on the page builds trust and helps you stand out in search results.
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The stem draws that line, because the ending sits equally close to both.
If you provide project and design services, putting design or project into the stem clarifies the expectation; if you sell products, naming the product category in the stem works better in search results. To test several patterns at once, use the bulk domain name search.
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They are not. Opening early in the root zone does not determine size.
Although the ending was recorded on 31 October 2013, it sits today among the smaller zones at 6,905 registrations, because the word names one narrow speciality. The practical consequence: one- and two-word descriptive stems remain largely free and competition is low.
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Of 6,905 registrations, 5,368 sit in the zone file according to the nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026, roughly 78 percent.
That high share shows the zone is filled with working sites rather than parked holdings. The rule that follows: if the name you want is taken, it may well be in genuine use, so waiting for it to lapse is unproductive. See who holds it through whois search.
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Any page taking a form or an order does.
The operator enforces no mandatory HTTPS regime here, so the choice is yours. On pages selling technical products, though, visitors complete forms to ask about dimensions, wattage and compatibility, and a browser warning costs you directly at that step. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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