The .limited Domain: A Company Form Nobody Verifies
.limited entered the root zone on 17 April 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 6 March 2014, and the contracting party today is Binky Moon, LLC. The word comes from the English company suffix denoting limited liability, yet the ending is not confined to that status. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 8,878 registrations, of which 6,728 sit in the zone file.
Limited companies, family businesses, consultancies and trading firms use the zone, alongside collection and series projects offering a restricted number of items. No eligibility condition applies and the operator requests no corporate status document. Try candidates through a .limited domain search, and compare the .company page.
This ending produces a common misreading: because the word names a legal form, people assume registration requires holding that status. The agreement does not bear that out. The operator runs the zone under an open registration commitment and may not impose eligibility limits based on identity. Among the policies the same operator publishes, exactly one extension asks for a corporate status document, and this ending is not it. The consequence runs both ways: a sole trader may register here, and equally the address proves no company status to anyone reading it. If you intend to present limited liability, show it on the page with your company registration details.
.LIMITED Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Inc.
- ICANN registry agreement 6 March 2014
- Root zone record 17 April 2014
- Registered domains 8,878 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 6,728 names, about 76%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .limited 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.
.limited 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
$36.39 /year -
Renewal
$39.19 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .limited 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.
.limited Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .limited 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 .limited 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 .limited 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 .limited 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
.limited Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.limited Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .limited domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.limited Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .limited Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The operator requests no corporate status document in this zone.
Because the agreement carries an open registration commitment, no limit based on identity may be drawn. Sole traders, freelancers and associations register on identical terms. The word does evoke a legal form, though, so a visitor expects an incorporated entity; publishing your registration details on the page meets that expectation honestly.
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It does not. A domain is a registration record, not a certificate of incorporation.
Since the operator performs no status verification at application, the address produces no legal effect of its own. If you present a claim resting on limited liability, publish your company number, tax details and service address plainly on the page. That information is both a legal obligation and a trust signal.
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Yes. The word's second meaning makes that use natural.
Limited-run collections, special series and capped programmes read directly with this ending. Because the agreement treats the string as a dictionary term, such uses are protected too. Test your shortlist together through the bulk domain name search.
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Of 8,878 registrations, 6,728 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; the rest are being held. The rule that follows: single-word stems are largely taken, yet patterns adding this ending to a brand name can still be found. Confirm the status of a name through whois search.
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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. With company-held domains the frequent problem is that the named contact has left and the approval message goes to a closed mailbox; update the contact details before you begin. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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