The .loan Domain: A Direct Ending for Lending Businesses
.loan entered the root zone on 5 February 2015 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 20 November 2014, with Gibraltar-based dot Loan Limited as the contracting party. The registry positions the ending for banks, building societies, personal finance companies and specialists in mortgages and refinancing. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 144,078 registrations, of which 25,737 sit in the zone file.
The ending forms part of a sixteen-string portfolio run under the GRS Domains brand, alongside names such as .accountant, .faith, .date and .download. Mortgage and vehicle finance brokers, comparison sites, financial advisers, credit unions and corporate funding teams all use the zone. No eligibility condition applies and the operator verifies no sector. Try candidates through a .loan domain search.
Against 144,078 registrations, only 25,737 names appear in the zone file, a share of 18 percent and among the lowest of any zone examined in this programme. Most of what is registered has never been attached to a site at all. Two practical consequences follow. The first is in your favour: the stem you want may genuinely be free, because occupancy here reflects holding rather than use. The second is a caution: in zones with a low publication share, visitors and mail recipients treat the address more warily, so filling your page with real corporate details and publishing regularly matters more here than average.
.LOAN Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation dot Loan Limited (Gibraltar)
- Commercial brand GRS Domains, a sixteen-string portfolio
- ICANN registry agreement 20 November 2014
- Root zone record 5 February 2015
- Registered domains 144,078 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 25,737 names, about 18%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .loan domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.loan 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
$29.99 /year -
Transfer
$29.99 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
$119.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.00
Included With Every .loan 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.
.loan Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .loan 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 .loan 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 .loan 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 $7.00 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 .loan 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
.loan Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.loan Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .loan domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.loan Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .loan Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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The operator asks for none; the zone applies no eligibility condition.
The agreement does require registrars to remind registrants of their duty to comply with applicable law, and it names consumer protection, fair lending and debt collection rules explicitly. Authority therefore comes from the activity, not from the address. If you carry on lending business, publish your licence details plainly on the page.
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Yes. Only 18 percent of registrations appear in the zone file.
According to the nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026, 25,737 of 144,078 registrations are published. Occupancy here reflects holding rather than use, so descriptive stems open up more often than you would expect. Test several patterns at once through the bulk domain name search.
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By making corporate detail visible and keeping the site alive.
Visitors approach financial offers warily, and a company number, the name of your supervisory authority, a physical address and a working telephone number answer that caution. Set your name server and mail authentication records up properly as well, or your messages will meet filters. See who holds a name through whois search.
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They belong to different registries and are separate endings, not siblings.
One is held by a Gibraltar company, the other by a company formed in the United States, and their zones differ sevenfold in size. If you offer a single product, the singular reads more naturally; institutions with a range of products tend to prefer the plural. Compare through the .loans page.
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No regime imposes it here, but in practice it is unavoidable.
Any page collecting an application, income details or an identity document must be encrypted, and a browser warning destroys confidence instantly on a financial site. The agreement itself also asks registrants who hold sensitive health and financial data to apply reasonable security measures. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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