The .ninja Domain: An Address for People Who Deliver
The .ninja domain is an early-generation extension that joined the root zone on 19 December 2013, six weeks after its ICANN agreement was signed on 7 November 2013. Dog Beach, LLC, part of the Identity Digital group, is the contracting party. Measured on 13 August 2026, the zone holds 31,113 registrations with 23,980 in the zone file.
Freelance developers, designers, technical consultants, small agencies and personal portfolio sites dominate the registrant base. The contract language on restrictions is unusually direct and rules out any identity-based limit. Try candidates in .ninja domain search, and look at a zone aimed at the same audience on the .guru page.
The operator has committed to auditing registrant data for accuracy on a regular basis and to remediating records that are wrong. The text then goes one step further: a registrant who does not respond to a request to update their details can have services suspended. A reachable email address is therefore a condition of holding the name rather than a matter of tidiness. Update your records in the same week that a company or address change happens.
.NINJA Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Dog Beach, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 19 December 2013
- Eligibility None — the contract forbids restrictions being imposed
- Zone size 31,113 registrations, 23,980 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .ninja domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.ninja 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
$14.99 /year -
Transfer
$31.19 /year -
Renewal
$33.59 /year -
Restore
$119.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.68
Included With Every .ninja 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.
.ninja Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .ninja 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 .ninja 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 .ninja 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 $4.68 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 .ninja 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
.ninja Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.ninja Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .ninja domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.ninja Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .ninja Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone who trades under their own name. The zone is full of freelance developers, designers, technical consultants and small teams. Because the word implies craft, the label works best paired with a personal or team name. If you are presenting a corporate group structure, the ending will not carry the tone you need. Try candidates in .ninja domain search.
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None whatsoever. The contract wording here is unusually direct: it states that no restrictions may be placed on a registrant's eligibility to register for legitimate and lawful purposes. That also means no professional qualification is checked, so the extension is a stylistic choice rather than a credential of any kind.
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Your name can be suspended. The operator has committed to auditing registrant data and remediating inaccurate records, and services may be stopped when a request to update goes unanswered. Refresh the record as soon as a company name, address or mailbox changes. You can inspect what is published today through whois search.
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Both zones sit under the same registry group, but they carry different tones. The word ninja suggests speed and hands-on craft, while guru suggests accumulated knowledge and teaching. If you publish courses, advisory work or written analysis, the second reads better; if you build and ship, the first does. Compare both at once with bulk domain search.
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Yes, though not for single dictionary words. The zone held 31,113 registrations on 13 August 2026, with 23,980 of them in the zone file. That high publication share carries a practical warning: if the label you want is taken, it is probably genuinely in use, so waiting for expiry rarely pays off. A personal name plus a speciality still works comfortably.
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Yes, the process follows the standard gTLD flow. Release the lock, request the authorisation code and submit the transfer; the registry performs no additional eligibility review. Remember that transfers are blocked for the first sixty days after a fresh registration, so build that into your timing. Start on the domain transfer page.
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