.memorial Domain: An Address Ending for Remembrance Pages
.memorial entered the root zone on 20 November 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 16 October 2014, and the current contracting party is Dog Beach, LLC. The word covers a page remembering a person as readily as a monument, a memorial fund or an anniversary project. As of 12 August 2026 the zone holds 1,157 registrations, 843 of which appear in the zone file.
Families building tribute pages, funeral and remembrance providers, foundations that administer a named fund, museums, associations and anniversary projects all use this zone. There is no eligibility test: the registry asks for no proof of kinship and no institutional record. Try names on the .memorial domain search screen, and look at the .foundation page if the project is an endowed fund.
A memorial page is only worth what its permanence is worth, and a one-year registration that nobody renews takes the page offline quietly before releasing the name to someone else. Settle three things at the start: register for a long term, use a contact address that will still be read years from now — an institutional or shared family address rather than one person's inbox — and put the registration in the name of a party that will outlast an individual. Renewal notices go only to the address on record; if that address is dead, so is the notice.
.MEMORIAL Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Dog Beach, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 20 November 2014
- Eligibility None; the agreement carries an open registration commitment
- Zone size 1,157 registrations, 843 published (12 August 2026)
- Document Requirement Documents are required to register a .memorial domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
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.memorial 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
$52.00 /year -
Transfer
$52.00 /year -
Renewal
$57.20 /year -
Restore
$149.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.44
Included With Every .memorial 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.
.memorial Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .memorial 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 .memorial 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 .memorial 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 $11.44 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 .memorial 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
.memorial Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.memorial Domain Registration
- Document Requirement Documents are required to register a .memorial domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.memorial Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .memorial Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The extension's ICANN agreement carries an open registration commitment, so the registry cannot limit eligibility by who the registrant is, and the operator publishes no eligibility form specific to this extension. Anyone building a page in someone's memory can register. Check whether a name is free on the .memorial search page.
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The extension neither grants you a right nor imposes a prohibition; the legal position depends entirely on the personality-rights and trademark law where you are. Where a well-known name is involved, agreeing with the family or rights holder first is both the correct and the safer route. If any commercial use is planned, assess the trademark side separately — registering a domain confers no authority over a name.
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It stops resolving at expiry, moves into a redemption period and eventually returns to general availability. That is the most common way memorial pages are lost. Register for a long term and put a contact address on file that will still be read years from now. You can check the expiry date at any time from the whois search page.
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Yes, and in most cases it is the sturdier arrangement. Because there is no eligibility test, the registrant may be an individual or a legal entity; registering in the name of an association, foundation or memorial committee keeps the page from depending on one person's account. Changing the registrant later runs through the registrar and needs accurate contact details on both sides.
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The extension follows standard gTLD transfer rules. Take the authorisation code from the current provider, lift the transfer lock and start the request at the new one. In memorial projects the name is often still registered to a relative or a former volunteer, so confirm who appears as the authorised contact before you begin. Start from the domain transfer page.
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It should. A certificate is a product separate from the domain and is obtained independently of the extension; browsers mark pages served without HTTPS, and a visitor arriving at a memorial page hesitates at that warning. If the page carries a donation or contact form, the step becomes unavoidable. Compare the options on the SSL certificate page.
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