The .realty Domain: The Trade Word for Property, Online
The .realty domain entered the root zone on 11 June 2015 under an ICANN agreement dated 19 March 2015, renewed on 6 January 2025. The extension has changed hands three times since 2020 and its current registry operator is Internet Naming Co., based in the Cayman Islands. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 4,243 registrations, of which 1,262 appeared in the zone file.
In American usage the word is the property trade's own term, which is why agencies, listing portals, development marketing teams and valuation firms make up the registrant base. No estate agency licence is verified at registration. Try your candidates in .realty domain search, and weigh a larger zone on the .estate page.
Section four of Specification 11 stops after three clauses in most extensions. For .realty it runs to three more. Registrars must bind registrants to comply with law on privacy, data collection, consumer protection including misleading and deceptive conduct, fair lending, debt collection and financial disclosure; they must state that duty at the moment of registration; and sites handling sensitive health or financial data must apply reasonable security measures. What the registry does not do is verify anyone's licence.
.REALTY Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Internet Naming Co. (Cayman Islands)
- Root zone entry 11 June 2015
- Agreement renewal 6 January 2025
- Zone size 4,243 registrations, 1,262 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .realty 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.
.realty 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
$109.90 /year -
Transfer
$363.99 /year -
Renewal
$397.89 /year
Included With Every .realty 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.
.realty Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .realty 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 .realty 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 .realty 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 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 .realty 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
.realty Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.realty Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .realty domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.realty Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .realty Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry verifies neither a licence nor a professional body membership, and the agreement sets out no identity-based eligibility test. Licensing duties arise from what you do rather than from the address you use: if you broker property, your national rules already apply, and registering the extension neither creates that obligation nor removes it. Begin with the .realty search page.
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The agreement places three additional duties on registrars. First, they must include a clause binding registrants to comply with law on privacy, data collection, consumer protection, fair lending, debt collection and financial disclosure. Second, they must notify registrants of that duty at the time of registration. Third, registrants who collect sensitive health or financial data must apply reasonable and appropriate security measures. All three are written into the contract itself.
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They belong to different registry operators and their zones are not the same size. The word realty is the American property trade's own term and reads narrowly but precisely, while estate carries both property and inheritance senses and therefore spreads wider. If your audience is North American, the first speaks the industry's language. Compare on the .estate page, or test both at once with bulk domain search.
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On 13 August 2026, 1,262 of 4,243 registrations appeared in the zone file, a rate near thirty per cent. That pattern usually points at defensive registration: property brands take the name so that nobody else can, then never build on it. The practical consequence for you is worth knowing. If your preferred name is taken, it is more likely parked than competing, and it is unlikely to be released any time soon.
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Remove the registrar lock, request the authorisation code and start the request at the gaining registrar. On property sites the usual obstacle is not technical: the record often sits in a former web agency's account and the approval message goes to a mailbox nobody reads. Confirm that the address in the registration record still reaches you before you begin. Start from the domain transfer page.
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