The .rentals Domain: Where a Whole Inventory Lives
The .rentals domain entered the root zone on 30 January 2014 under an ICANN agreement dated 5 December 2013, with Binky Moon, LLC of the Identity Digital group as contracting party. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 16,500 registrations and 12,725 of them appeared in the zone file, a publication rate of seventy-seven per cent.
The plural describes an inventory rather than a single listing, which is why holiday-home portfolios, fleet operators, plant and event equipment hire firms and regional listing sites make up the registrant base. No eligibility test applies at registration. Try your candidates in .rentals domain search before you print anything.
The contracting party here is Binky Moon, LLC, while the singular .rent belongs to XYZ.COM LLC. The difference is not only corporate but measurable: seventy-seven per cent of registered names in this zone appear in the zone file, against roughly forty-one per cent in the singular. A taken name here is therefore likely to be genuinely in use, whereas there it may simply be parked. Carry that expectation into your search.
.RENTALS Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 30 January 2014
- Eligibility None — the agreement commits to open registration and protects minority usage
- Zone size 16,500 registrations, 12,725 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rentals 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.
.rentals 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
$11.49 /year -
Transfer
$44.19 /year -
Renewal
$47.59 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .rentals 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.
.rentals Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .rentals 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 .rentals 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 .rentals 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 $6.73 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 .rentals 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
.rentals Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.rentals Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rentals domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rentals Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .rentals Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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It suits operators listing several rentable assets at one address. Holiday-home portfolios, vehicle fleets, plant and event equipment hire firms and regional listing sites all use that reading. For a single apartment or one vehicle the plural overstates the offer, and the singular reads more honestly. Compare the two on the .rent page before committing to either.
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No. The agreement commits the registry to keeping second-level names available to lawful registrants and forbids limiting eligibility by identity. It also forbids shutting out legitimate users whose work sits outside the most common sense of the word. A project unconnected to the rental trade may therefore register freely. Try your candidates on the .rentals search page.
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Mostly yes. On 13 August 2026, 12,725 of 16,500 registrations appeared in the zone file, a rate of seventy-seven per cent. That sits above most neighbouring zones and produces a clear rule: if the name you want is taken, a working site probably stands behind it, so waiting for it to lapse is unproductive. Patterns adding a region or a product type reach a result faster.
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The agreement sets out two mechanisms. The first is a marks-blocking list allowing rights holders to block their trademarks across every extension the registry operates. The second is a notice service offered to trademark holders at no cost once ICANN's mandatory claims period ends. The registry also undertakes to enforce terms of use defining abusive activity and to operate a published abuse contact.
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Remove the lock, request the authorisation code and start the transfer at the gaining registrar. With rental portfolios the recurring obstacle is that the record sits in a listings platform's or a former web agency's account. Confirm you can read mail sent to the address on file before you begin. Run the process from the domain transfer page and read the record with whois search.
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