The .properties Domain: Naming a Portfolio, Not One Unit
The .properties domain entered the root zone on 30 January 2014 under an ICANN agreement dated 5 December 2013, with Binky Moon, LLC of the Identity Digital group as contracting party. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 17,400 registrations and 13,077 of them appeared in the zone file, meaning three in every four registered names resolve.
The plural describes a portfolio rather than a single unit, which is why estate agencies, portfolio managers, investment funds, letting platforms and the sales sites of large housing schemes make up the registrant base. For one apartment or one development, the singular reads more accurately. Test candidates in .properties domain search and compare the singular on the .property page.
Registrants often treat .properties and .property as two forms of one product. The contracts say otherwise: this extension belongs to Binky Moon, LLC while the singular belongs to Digital Property Infrastructure Limited. They run under separate agreements with separate policies, and the zones differ in size by a factor of about two and a half. Holding a name in one grants nothing in the other, so if you plan to keep both, read each registry's own terms.
.PROPERTIES Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 30 January 2014
- Eligibility None — the agreement commits to open registration
- Zone size 17,400 registrations, 13,077 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .properties domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.properties 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
$13.75 /year -
Transfer
$38.99 /year -
Renewal
$41.99 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .properties 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.
.properties Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .properties 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 .properties 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 .properties 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 $6.73 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 .properties 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
.properties Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.properties Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .properties domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.properties Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .properties Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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You do not. The open registration commitment in the agreement forbids the registry from applying an identity-based eligibility limit, so no agency licence, chamber registration or tax certificate can be requested. The reverse holds too: the address does not show that the person behind it is a licensed agent. Try candidates in .properties domain search.
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The two zones belong to separate companies, and holding a name in one grants nothing in the other. Where your brand name is short and memorable, keeping both and redirecting one preserves the traffic that mistyping would otherwise lose. If you are selling a single development, the singular alone is enough. Compare on the .property page.
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On 13 August 2026, 13,077 of 17,400 registrations appeared in the zone file, a share of about 75 per cent. With three quarters of registered names genuinely in use, a short label showing as taken is most likely held by a working agency. You can see who holds a record through whois search.
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Put the city or region into the label, because property search almost always begins with a location and the address then matches the query directly. Using a development name works in the short term but dates the address as soon as that scheme sells out. Try combinations together in bulk domain name search.
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It is. On a listings site the visitor types a name, a phone number and often a budget into the form, and without a certificate that data travels in the clear while the browser displays a warning. Since first contact in property largely arrives through the form, that warning translates directly into lost enquiries. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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The name must be unlocked, you need the authorisation code from your current registrar, and the contact address on the record has to work. No extra eligibility review applies and no paperwork is collected. A practical caution for listings sites: capture the list of inbound links to your listing pages first, because a broken redirect quietly erodes listing traffic. Begin at the domain transfer page.
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