The .recipes Domain: A Home Address for a Recipe Archive
The .recipes domain entered the root zone on 12 December 2013 under an ICANN agreement dated 17 October 2013, with Binky Moon, LLC of the Identity Digital group as contracting party. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 6,718 registrations and 4,011 of them appeared in the zone file, a publication rate close to sixty per cent.
Food blogs, chef and restaurant archives, the recipe sections of grocery brands, dietitians and kitchen equipment retailers make up the registrant base. No eligibility test applies at registration. Try your candidates in .recipes domain search, or look at the .kitchen page if you want the room rather than the method.
Section four of Specification 11 binds the registry to more than open registration. It states that the operator may not limit names to registrants associated with the most common usage of the term, nor disenfranchise lawful users tied to a minority usage. For this string that is a direct guarantee for everything outside the kitchen: manufacturing recipes, automation recipes, and formulations in chemistry or cosmetics all have equal claim to a name here.
.RECIPES Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 12 December 2013
- Eligibility None — the agreement commits to open registration and to protecting minority usage
- Zone size 6,718 registrations, 4,011 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .recipes domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.recipes 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
$11.74 /year -
Transfer
$77.99 /year -
Renewal
$83.99 /year -
Restore
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Late Renewal
$11.12
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.recipes Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .recipes 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 .recipes 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 .recipes 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 $11.12 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 .recipes 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
.recipes Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.recipes Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .recipes domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.recipes Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .recipes Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone may register, because no eligibility test applies. Food blogs, chef archives, the recipe sections of grocery brands and kitchen equipment retailers dominate the zone. Since the agreement also protects meanings outside cooking, manufacturing recipes and automation recipes have an equal claim to a name. Begin from the .recipes search page and keep two or three alternatives in reserve.
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One names the method, the other names the room. The .recipes string labels the content itself, while .kitchen points at the space and the equipment inside it. A recipe archive, a cookery course or an online cookbook reads better on the first; kitchen design, cabinet manufacturing and commercial kitchen services read better on the second. If you want to weigh both, open the .kitchen page.
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The 13 August 2026 measurement showed 6,718 registrations with 4,011 in the zone file. That is a publication rate near sixty per cent, so two names in every five have never gone live. The zone is small enough that single-word dish names can still be free. Even so, putting your own kitchen name or signature dish into the stem produces a more durable address than a generic word ever will.
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The agreement defines two mechanisms. The first is a marks-blocking list that lets rights holders block their trademarks across every extension the registry operates. The second is an additional notice service, offered to trademark holders at no cost, which starts once ICANN's mandatory trademark claims period ends. The registry also reserves a contractual right to audit registration data and cancel names registered on inaccurate details.
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The name is not deleted the moment it expires. A grace period during which you can still renew comes first, followed by a redemption window where recovery is possible for an additional fee. Recipe archives tend to age well in search results, which makes a missed date expensive: change the address and links break, taking accumulated traffic with them. Check your expiry date through whois search.
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