The .red Domain: A Colour in English, a Network in Spanish
The .red domain entered the root zone on 16 January 2014 under an ICANN agreement dated 7 November 2013, and its registry operator is Identity Digital Limited, the company previously known as Afilias. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 26,878 registrations, of which 18,152 appeared in the zone file.
A three-letter stem keeps the whole address short, which is the practical appeal. Brands that own red as an identity colour, sports clubs, campaign sites and network or community projects aimed at Spanish-speaking markets all use it. No eligibility test applies. Try your candidates in .red domain search and see the .pink page for the other colour in the family.
In English red names a colour. In Spanish the same word means network. That opens the extension to two audiences at once, and the decision rule follows from it. If red is the colour your brand is recognised by, the English reading works for you; if you are addressing a Spanish-speaking market, the same address reads as a network or a community. When neither reading applies, three letters of brevity are not on their own a reason to choose it.
.RED Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Identity Digital Limited (formerly Afilias)
- Root zone entry 16 January 2014
- Eligibility None — the agreement forbids limiting a generic-string TLD to one entity
- Zone size 26,878 registrations, 18,152 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .red domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.red 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
$23.39 /year -
Renewal
$25.19 /year -
Restore
$109.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.10
Included With Every .red 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.
.red Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .red 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 .red 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 .red 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 $4.10 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 .red 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
.red Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.red Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .red domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.red Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .red Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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It suits brands recognised by the colour red: sports clubs, retail chains, campaign and fundraising sites all use that reading. A second audience sits in Spanish-speaking markets, where the same word means network, so community projects read the address quite differently. The three-letter stem keeps the whole thing short. Try your shortlist on the .red search page before you settle.
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No eligibility requirement applies. The agreement carries the standard public interest commitments and expressly forbids limiting a generic-string extension to a single person or company. No connection to the colour, to a language or to a country is asked for. A project with nothing red about it may register just as freely, so the choice comes down to how the finished address sounds when you say it out loud.
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IANA's IDN Tables repository lists twenty-eight published tables for this extension, the highest count among its neighbours. Published tables show that support is defined at the infrastructure level, but which language your registrar has enabled can differ. Confirm the supported list before ordering, and consider reserving an ASCII equivalent so that mail clients and older software have a fallback.
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Both are colour extensions under the same corporate roof, yet their zones differ markedly in size and in how much of each is published. Roughly two thirds of registered .red names appear in the zone file, a far higher share than in .pink. The meanings diverge too: red suggests energy and alertness, while pink occupies a narrower emotional register. Compare them on the .pink page.
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Remove the lock, obtain the authorisation code and start the request at the gaining registrar. Short colour names change hands often, so check two things first: whether the name is locked, and whether it was transferred within the last sixty days, because a recent move can delay a new one. Run the process from the domain transfer page and read the record with whois search.
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