The .llc Domain: An Ending for Limited Liability Firms
.llc entered the root zone on 16 February 2018, the latest opening in this group, under an ICANN registry agreement dated 14 December 2017, with Identity Digital Limited as the contracting party today. The abbreviation denotes the limited liability company form widely used in the United States. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 70,216 registrations, of which 56,580 sit in the zone file.
Law and accountancy practices, consultancies, property investment vehicles, small businesses and single-member companies all use the zone. No document is uploaded at registration, yet the agreement obliges the registrar to collect a declaration. Try candidates through a .llc domain search, and compare the .ltd page from the same family of abbreviations.
This ending's ICANN agreement carries the commitments applied to regulated-sector strings. Under them the registrar must obtain from the registrant a declaration of holding the authorisations, charter and licences needed to operate in the associated sector, and must require material changes to be reported; where doubt arises, the operator consults national supervisory authorities. The critical distinction: you upload nothing at registration, you make a statement whose accuracy you carry. A false declaration is both a breach of the registration agreement and a ground for suspending the name, so state your company form exactly as it is.
.LLC Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Identity Digital Limited
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Inc.
- ICANN registry agreement 14 December 2017
- Root zone record 16 February 2018
- Registered domains 70,216 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 56,580 names, about 81%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .llc domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
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.llc 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
$14.99 /year -
Transfer
$42.89 /year -
Renewal
$46.19 /year -
Restore
$129.90
Included With Every .llc 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.
.llc Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .llc 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 .llc 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 .llc 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 .llc 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
.llc Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.llc Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .llc domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.llc Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .llc Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The operator does not ask where the company was incorporated.
The ending is tied to no country and no document is uploaded at registration. The agreement does, however, require the registrar to obtain your declaration that you hold the authorisations and charter documents your sector requires. If your company is incorporated elsewhere under an equivalent form, state that as it stands; the address creates company status in no jurisdiction.
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It does not. A domain is a registration record, not a certificate of incorporation.
Because 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 on the page. In most jurisdictions that disclosure is already a legal duty rather than an optional courtesy.
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They are two company abbreviations from different legal traditions, and two separate endings.
One is common in American commercial practice, the other in British; even their agreement obligations are not identical. Pick the abbreviation your customers already recognise, though registering both and redirecting one to the other is a common answer. Compare through the .ltd page.
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An inaccurate declaration can support suspension of the name.
The registration agreement requires the statement about authorisations and licences to be accurate and material changes to be reported; where doubt arises the operator may consult national supervisory authorities. If your company form changes, update the registration and contact details rather than leaving the record as it was.
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Any page exchanging proposals or contracts needs one.
Corporate visitors leave data at exactly the wrong moments to lose them: enquiry forms, contract uploads and billing details. A browser warning at that step converts directly into lost work. The operator enforces no mandatory HTTPS regime in this zone, so the choice is yours. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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