.mortgage Domain: An Ending Focused on Home Lending
.mortgage entered the root zone on 22 May 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 20 March 2014, and the current contracting party is Dog Beach, LLC. The word denotes property-secured home finance, so this zone addresses a narrower trade than the general money-themed endings. As of 12 August 2026 there are 5,196 registrations, 3,580 of them published.
Brokers, property finance advisers, calculators, comparison sites, refinancing services and home-buying guides all register here. The extension is routinely confused with the broader money-themed ending, but it sits with a different legal entity altogether. Try candidates on the .mortgage domain search screen, or see the .loans page for a wider framing.
Where the public interest clause of this extension's agreement lists the law registrants must undertake to follow, it names fair lending and debt collection in terms; a separate clause requires anyone collecting sensitive financial data to put proportionate security in place. Together those two provisions describe the sites in this zone rather well: a lending enquiry form arrives at the very first step and gathers identity and debt information. What the registry does not do is verify any brokerage licence. The licensing requirement comes from the law where you operate, and holding the address does not satisfy it.
.MORTGAGE Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Dog Beach, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 22 May 2014
- Eligibility None; no brokerage licence is verified
- Zone size 5,196 registrations, 3,580 published (12 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .mortgage domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
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.mortgage 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
$12.90 /year -
Transfer
$62.39 /year -
Renewal
$67.19 /year -
Restore
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Late Renewal
$10.24
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.mortgage Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .mortgage 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 .mortgage 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 .mortgage 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 $10.24 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 .mortgage 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
.mortgage Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.mortgage Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .mortgage domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.mortgage Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .mortgage Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, the registry verifies no licence and requests no document at registration. That does not mean you may broker without one: credit intermediation is a licensed activity in most jurisdictions, and the obligation follows the activity. Holding the address grants no authority; it only describes what you do. Check availability on the .mortgage search page.
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The two touch the same subject but sit with separate legal entities and differ in zone size as well. This ending denotes property-secured home finance only, while the general one spans everything from budgeting to payments. If your service is built around a single product, the narrower ending makes the address read more precisely. Compare them on the .money page.
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The agreement requires those collecting sensitive financial data to apply security proportionate to the service offered. In practice that means the form runs over HTTPS, income and identity fields are asked only where genuinely needed, a retention period is defined, and access to the records is limited to the people who require it. Compare certificate options on the SSL certificate page.
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The zone is small — 5,196 registrations as of 12 August 2026 — so combinations of a city and a service are still findable. If you have no brand word, joining what you do to where you work gives a name that is both memorable and self-explanatory in search results. To try several combinations in one pass, use the bulk domain search screen.
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The extension follows standard gTLD transfer rules. Obtain the authorisation code, lift the transfer lock and start the request at the new provider. In brokerage the name often remains in a former marketing agency's account, so confirm who appears as the registrant before you begin. Check the record via whois search and start at the domain transfer page.
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Calculators usually run in the browser and put no load on the server; the load appears at the steps that store results or generate an offer. Keeping those steps separate and building result pages so they can be cached is what keeps the site standing during a campaign. Compare hosting options on the hosting page.
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