The .living Domain: For Spaces and Ways of Living
.living entered the root zone on 10 December 2015 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 30 July 2015, and the contracting party today is Internet Naming Co. The word covers both the space people occupy and the way they choose to live, so the ending opens onto two separate sectors at once. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 26,650 registrations, of which 24,476 sit in the zone file.
Furniture makers and interior architects, homeware retailers, care homes and assisted living operators, student and co-living developments, wellbeing publications and home decor creators all use the zone. No eligibility condition applies. Try candidates through a .living domain search, and look at the .house page.
Of 26,650 registrations, 24,476 appear in the zone file, so nineteen names in twenty are attached to a working site. That share is among the highest of any zone examined in this programme, and it produces a decision rule you can state in one line: if the name you want is taken, it is probably genuinely in use, which makes waiting for it to lapse unproductive. Few names here are parked or held for resale, so the room to negotiate is narrow too. Trying a fresh stem gets you a result far faster than waiting does.
.LIVING Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Internet Naming Co.
- Infrastructure provider Tucows Registry Services
- ICANN registry agreement 30 July 2015
- Root zone record 10 December 2015
- Registered domains 26,650 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 24,476 names, about 92%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .living domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.living 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
$4.99 /year -
Transfer
$49.99 /year -
Renewal
$49.99 /year
Included With Every .living 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 forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
.living Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .living 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 .living 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 .living 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 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 .living 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
.living Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.living Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .living domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.living Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .living Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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The contracting party is Internet Naming Co.; the backend is Tucows Registry Services.
These are two separate facts and should not be merged. The sponsoring organisation in the IANA root zone record is the party to the ICANN agreement, while the name appearing in lookup output identifies the provider that actually operates the register. Keep the distinction in mind when researching who stands behind an ending, because the brand marketing it commercially can be a third name again.
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Either works; the stem of the address draws the line.
Because the word covers both the space you occupy and the way you live, the ending alone announces no sector. If you sell products, naming the category in the stem performs better in search results; if you publish, leading with the subject or your brand is sharper. Test the patterns together through the bulk domain name search.
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It does, and both read naturally here.
Care homes, assisted living operators and student housing projects read naturally with this ending. Care provision is nonetheless a licensed activity in most countries, and that authority comes from regulation rather than from a domain; publishing your registration details on the page answers both the legal expectation and the reassurance families are looking for.
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Low for short single words, reasonable for descriptive patterns.
Of 26,650 registered names, 24,476 sit in the zone file, so nearly all of them are in use. If your candidate is taken, waiting for it to lapse is unproductive; widening the stem with a city, a product category or your brand gets you there faster. Confirm who holds 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 and open the request at the receiving provider. In interior and decoration work the address is often registered in the name of the agency that built the site; before you start, check that the registrant really is you. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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