.miami Domain: A City Ending That Sets No Residency Test
.miami entered the root zone on 28 February 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 19 December 2013, and the current contracting party is Registry Services, LLC. The extension carries a city name, but the registry is not a public authority and no residence or trading presence in Miami is required to register. As of 12 August 2026 there are 19,010 registrations, 11,976 of them published.
Local estate agents, hotels and event businesses, restaurants, law and medical practices, tourism guides and brands addressing the city all sit in this zone. The operator's Registration Policy of March 2026 lists this ending by name and takes only a warranty that the registrant is the intended beneficiary of the name. Try candidates on the .miami domain search screen, and see the .melbourne page for a city ending that does impose a link test.
The voluntary commitment section of the agreement sets out an eleven-point regime that ICANN can enforce. The registry must publish acceptable use rules, run a flagging route open to the public and to law enforcement, keep a single point of contact for law enforcement, suspend or delete names found to be used abusively, and block a repeat offender from registering again. Second-level registration of geographic names and of intergovernmental organisation names is closed, and trademark holders were given a 60-day sunrise. The test looks at how you use the name, not at who you are.
.MIAMI Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Registry Services, LLC (GoDaddy Registry)
- Root zone entry 28 February 2014
- Eligibility None; no Miami residence or presence required
- Zone size 19,010 registrations, 11,976 published (12 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .miami domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.miami 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
$23.39 /year -
Transfer
$23.39 /year -
Renewal
$25.19 /year -
Late Renewal
$7.81
Included With Every .miami 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.
.miami Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .miami 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 .miami 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 .miami 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 $7.81 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 .miami 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
.miami Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.miami Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .miami domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.miami Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .miami Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Yes. The extension applies no residence, address or trading test; the operator's Registration Policy lists this ending by name and takes only a warranty that you are the intended beneficiary and will use the name consistently with the purpose of the extension. The registry is not a public authority either. Check availability on the .miami search page.
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The agreement closes two groups outright: exact matches of the geographic names defined in the applicant guidebook, and the names of intergovernmental organisations. The first are opened only to authorised representatives of the territory concerned, the second only to the organisation itself. ICANN's standard technical reservations apply on top. Your registrar reports which category a name falls into during the availability check.
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The registry has to act on it. Under the agreement it must review, resolve and respond to reported cases in a timely way, and may suspend or delete the name where the report is made out. The same commitment extends to blocking a repeat offender from registering further names. Keep your contact details current — a process you cannot be reached about will not resolve in your favour. Check what is on record via whois search.
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The operator's Registration Policy sets a minimum of one character per label and a maximum of 63. Most one- and two-character names are reserved or sit in a premium tier, so they are not freely available in practice. Names that look like two-letter country codes also carry an additional undertaking not to imply a link to a government or country-code manager.
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The agreement gave trademark holders a 60-day sunrise when the extension launched; that window has closed, so today the route is ordinary registration or the dispute procedures. The practical step is to take the most common spelling of your mark and register it for a long term. To see close variants in one pass, use the bulk domain search screen.
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Yes, the extension follows gTLD transfer rules. Obtain the authorisation code, lift the transfer lock and start the request at the gaining registrar. Because the operator's policy requires changes of detail to be reported within 14 days, update your contact information after the move as well. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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