The .repair Domain: Saying What the Workshop Does
The .repair domain entered the root zone on 19 December 2013 under an ICANN agreement dated 7 November 2013, with Binky Moon, LLC of the Identity Digital group as contracting party. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 11,206 registrations and 8,440 of them appeared in the zone file, a publication rate of seventy-five per cent.
Phone and computer workshops, appliance technicians, garages, roofing and plumbing trades and watch or jewellery restorers make up the registrant base. No trade certificate or authorised-service registration is checked. Try your candidates in .repair domain search, and see the .construction page if your work is structural.
Nobody searches for repair on its own. People search for a particular thing, in a particular place. A one-word generic stem therefore competes with every workshop in the zone and wins nothing. The rule is simple: put the object you fix or the city you serve into the stem and let the extension supply the verb. Note too that the registry verifies no trade qualification, so stating your own terms of liability on the site is the most direct way to set a visitor's expectations.
.REPAIR Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 19 December 2013
- Eligibility None — the agreement commits to open registration and no certificate is verified
- Zone size 11,206 registrations, 8,440 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .repair domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.repair 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
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$36.39 /year -
Renewal
$39.19 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .repair 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.
.repair Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .repair 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 .repair 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 .repair 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 .repair 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
.repair Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.repair Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .repair domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.repair Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .repair 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 trade certificate, authorised-service registration or guild membership is verified. For you that means freedom; for a visitor it means the address proves no competence. If you hold a formal certification, showing it plainly on the site becomes a differentiator. Try your candidates on the .repair search page.
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Let the stem say what you fix or where you work, since the extension already carries the verb. Patterns combining a device and a city are easier to obtain and match search intent more precisely. A one-word generic stem lands you in the same pool as every workshop in the zone. Test several variants in one pass with bulk domain search rather than checking them singly.
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The zone holds phone and computer workshops, appliance technicians, garages, roofing and plumbing trades and watch or jewellery restorers. For structural work a different extension reads more precisely. You can weigh the building side on the .construction page and the pipework side on the .plumbing page before deciding.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 11,206 registrations with 8,440 in the zone file, a rate of seventy-five per cent. That describes a zone made largely of working sites. The rule that follows: a short name you like is probably serving an active business, so waiting for it to lapse wastes time. Patterns adding a city are both easier to obtain and better matched to local search.
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Remove the lock, request the authorisation code and start the request at the gaining registrar. In small workshops the address usually stays in the account of whoever built the site, and reaching that person takes longer than the technical steps do. Confirm that the address on file reaches you, and plan the move outside your busy season. Start at the domain transfer page.
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