The .rehab Domain: An Address for Recovery Work
The .rehab domain entered the root zone on 29 May 2014 under an ICANN agreement dated 6 March 2014, with Dog Beach, LLC of the Identity Digital group as contracting party. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 2,837 registrations and 2,052 of them appeared in the zone file, a publication rate above seventy per cent.
Section four of the agreement commits the registry to open registration: no restriction is placed on a registrant's eligibility for legitimate and lawful purposes. No clinic licence, therapist credential or facility registration is checked. Try your candidates in .rehab domain search, and see the .clinic page for a more strictly medical reading.
In English rehab covers addiction and mental health treatment, physical and sports rehabilitation, and in American property language the renovation of a run-down building. The extension alone tells nobody which of the three you do, and the registry verifies no credential of any kind. The rule that follows is practical. Put the profession or the method into the stem, so a visitor can tell from the first word whether they have reached a treatment provider or a building contractor.
.REHAB Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Dog Beach, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 29 May 2014
- Eligibility None — the agreement commits to open registration and no licence is verified
- Zone size 2,837 registrations, 2,052 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rehab domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rehab 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
$36.39 /year -
Renewal
$39.19 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.29
Included With Every .rehab 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.
.rehab Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .rehab 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 .rehab 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 .rehab 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 $6.29 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 .rehab 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
.rehab Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.rehab Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rehab domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rehab Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .rehab Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The agreement commits the registry to open registration and no licence, diploma or facility registration is verified. One distinction is worth drawing, though: providing treatment is regulated in its own right, and those duties follow from the service you deliver rather than from the address you publish it on. The extension confers no clinical authority. Start at the .rehab search page.
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Three of them. Addiction and mental health centres form the first, physical therapy, sports rehabilitation and prosthetics clinics the second, and American property renovation contractors the third. Because a single address can serve any of the three, the stem has to carry the distinction. If your work is purely medical, the .clinic page offers a narrower reading that leaves less room for misunderstanding.
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The registry commits contractually to auditing registration data on a regular basis and to suspending service for registrants who fail to correct inaccurate details. That makes the contact information you supply at registration matter directly rather than as a formality. Update the record whenever an address or mailbox changes. You can inspect what is published through whois search.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 2,837 registrations with 2,052 in the zone file. At roughly seventy-two per cent, that describes a small zone that is nevertheless alive: most registered names really do point at a site. The practical conclusion is that a short name you like is probably in use, so waiting for it to lapse is unproductive. Two-word stems adding a city or a method are easier to secure.
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The agreement provides a marks-blocking list that lets rights holders block their trademarks across every extension the registry operates. Alongside it, the registry undertakes to apply rigorous terms of use defining abusive activity and to enforce them through a compliance team. Clinic names are frequently imitated, so organisations holding a registered trademark find that list a practical safeguard rather than a formality.
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