The .rent Domain: Four Letters That Read as an Invitation
The .rent domain entered the root zone on 2 April 2015 under an ICANN agreement dated 4 December 2014, with XYZ.COM LLC of Las Vegas as registry operator. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 24,870 registrations, of which 10,134 appeared in the zone file.
Because the English word works as both verb and noun, the finished address doubles as a call to action. Residential and office letting sites, vehicle and equipment hire firms, holiday rental platforms and event supply companies make up the registrant base. No eligibility test applies at registration. Try your candidates in .rent domain search and keep a second spelling in reserve.
Of 24,870 registered names, 10,134 appear in the zone file, a rate near forty-one per cent. That pattern usually reflects defensive registration and holding for resale: the short generic rental words are gone, but nothing has been built on them. The practical consequence cuts both ways. If your preferred one-word name is taken, you may not be facing an active competitor, yet the name is unlikely to be released soon either. Two-word patterns adding a city or a product move faster.
.RENT Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator XYZ.COM LLC (Las Vegas, USA)
- Root zone entry 2 April 2015
- Eligibility None — the agreement requires clear and non-discriminatory registration policies
- Zone size 24,870 registrations, 10,134 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rent domain
- Character Length 3 - 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.
.rent 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
$19.90 /year -
Transfer
$64.99 /year -
Renewal
$69.99 /year -
Restore
$199.90 -
Late Renewal
$12.87
Included With Every .rent 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.
.rent Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .rent 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 .rent 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 .rent 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 $12.87 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 .rent 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
.rent Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.rent Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rent domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rent Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .rent Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, they belong to different companies. The contracting party for .rent is XYZ.COM LLC, while .rentals sits with Binky Moon, LLC of the Identity Digital group. Launch rules, reserved-name lists and policies therefore run separately, and holding a name in one gives you no claim in the other. To weigh both, see the .rentals page and test them together with bulk domain search.
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Because the English word is both a verb and a noun, the address reads as an invitation rather than a label. Residential and office letting, vehicle and plant hire, holiday rentals and event equipment supply are all represented in the zone. Patterns built around a city name work particularly well, since renting is a local decision. Try your shortlist on the .rent search page.
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No. The agreement sets no identity-based eligibility test and the registry verifies no licence. Letting agency work, holiday rentals and vehicle hire are nonetheless regulated in many countries, and those duties arise from the activity itself: registering the address neither creates them nor removes them. The extension is a name, not a credential, and visitors should not be encouraged to read it as one.
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On 13 August 2026, 10,134 of 24,870 registrations appeared in the zone file, roughly forty-one per cent. The figure traces two behaviours: brands registering a name so that nobody else can, and investors holding short strings for resale. The result is that short names look taken while no working site sits behind them, and they are unlikely to become available in the near term.
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Remove the lock, request the authorisation code and start the transfer at the gaining registrar. On rental sites the usual obstacle is that the record sits in a listings portal's or a former agency's account. Confirm you can read mail sent to the address on file, and note that a name transferred within the last sixty days will be held back. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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