.men Domain: A Short Ending for Content Aimed at Men
.men entered the root zone on 8 May 2015 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 26 February 2015, and the contracting party is Exclusive Registry Limited, based in Gibraltar. Because the word names the audience outright, a name in this zone reads as a phrase once the ending is included. nTLDstats, accessed 12 August 2026, records 21,631 registrations in the zone.
Menswear and grooming brands, barbershops, fitness and health publishers, magazine-style titles and community sites all sit here. There is no eligibility test, and the agreement carries no voluntary commitment list — only the abuse and transparency clauses common to every new extension. Try names on the .men domain search screen, or see the .mom page for the family-facing counterpart.
The registry names a portfolio of sixteen extensions on its own site, and this is one of them. The practical consequence is that the siblings are run by the same operator under the same policies: the abuse handling and reporting route you meet in one applies in the others too. If the root you want is taken here, trying it across the sibling endings is a coherent fallback, because the operator, the process and the support channel do not change. Each extension still has its own ICANN agreement, though — do not carry a specific commitment from one across to another.
.MEN Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Exclusive Registry Limited (Gibraltar)
- Root zone entry 8 May 2015
- Eligibility None; the agreement carries no voluntary commitment list
- Zone size 21,631 registrations (12 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .men domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.men 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 .men 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.
.men Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .men 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 .men 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 .men 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 .men 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
.men Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.men Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .men domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.men Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .men Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, the extension applies no eligibility test at all. The word describes the audience, not the registrant; the registry asks for no identity, gender or line of business. In practice the zone includes menswear and grooming brands run by women founders. Check whether a name is free from the .men search page.
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Do not reason from the publication ratio here: the statistics source we use reports a zone file count of zero, which is plainly wrong for a zone that is operating. Open the name directly in a browser instead, and read the registration record — the expiry date and the registrar usually tell you enough. Run the lookup from the whois search page.
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The choice of extension is not itself a ranking factor; content quality, technical health and the link profile decide the outcome. With newer endings the real difference shows up on the user side — a short, readable name gets remembered and typed correctly. Before launch, set up HTTPS and consolidate on one canonical form; certificate options are on the SSL certificate page.
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The extension follows gTLD transfer rules. Get the authorisation code from your current registrar, lift the transfer lock and start the request at the receiving one; the first 60 days after registration and the period after a registrant change may be locked. Names in this zone are often acquired in bulk, so check the history of anything you take over. Start at the domain transfer page.
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If your brand word is short and easy to imitate, holding two or three neighbouring endings alongside the primary address is a reasonable defence. Do not let that turn into an endless list, though — the forms your audience would actually type are the ones worth holding. To see what is free in one pass, use the bulk domain search screen.
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The extension imposes no hosting requirement; you manage name servers freely from your registrar panel. The content that turns up most often in this zone is magazine- and catalogue-style, which means image weight adds up quickly, so plan caching and image sizes from the start rather than after launch. Compare options on the hosting page.
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