.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 There are no requirements for buying .miami domain registration
- 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 / years -
Transfer
$23.39 / years -
Renewal
$25.19 / years -
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 Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.miami Domain Registration
- Document Requirement There are no requirements for buying .miami domain registration
- 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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