The .review Domain: One Assessment, One Address
The .review domain entered the root zone on 5 February 2015 under an ICANN agreement dated 20 November 2014, and its registry operator is dot Review Limited, based in Gibraltar. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 9,596 registrations and 7,372 of them appeared in the zone file, a publication rate of seventy-seven per cent.
The singular describes one assessment or one review process, which is why product testing sites, book and film criticism, academic peer review projects and internal audit tools make up the registrant base. No eligibility test applies at registration. Try your candidates in .review domain search and decide singular or plural before you print.
Registrants routinely treat .review and .reviews as two forms of one product. The contracts say otherwise: this extension belongs to dot Review Limited in Gibraltar, while the plural sits with Dog Beach, LLC in the United States. Separate groups, separate agreements, separate policies. A name in one grants nothing in the other, so if you intend to hold both, read each registry's own rules rather than assuming they match.
.REVIEW Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator dot Review Limited (Gibraltar)
- Root zone entry 5 February 2015
- Eligibility None — the agreement carries only the standard public interest commitments
- Zone size 9,596 registrations, 7,372 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .review domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.review 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
$29.99 /year -
Transfer
$29.99 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
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Late Renewal
$7.00
Included With Every .review 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.
.review Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .review 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 .review 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 .review 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 $7.00 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 .review 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
.review Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.review Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .review domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.review Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .review Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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It suits projects that name a single assessment: product testing sites, book and film criticism, academic peer review processes and internal audit tools. The extension states what the page does without further explanation. If you are collecting many user opinions instead, the plural reads more accurately. Try your candidates on the .review search page before deciding.
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No. The contracting party for .review is dot Review Limited in Gibraltar, while .reviews sits with Dog Beach, LLC in the United States. The two extensions belong to separate groups and their policies run separately. Because the words look like a pair, this is a common misreading. See the difference on the .reviews page, or test both with bulk domain search.
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No. The agreement carries only the standard public interest commitments: abuse prevention, periodic technical analysis for security threats and a transparent registration policy. No accreditation or publishing registration is asked for. What you publish nonetheless falls under the consumer protection and unfair competition law of your jurisdiction, and that duty arises from the activity, not from the address.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 9,596 registrations with 7,372 in the zone file, a rate of seventy-seven per cent. The zone is small but active: most registered names point at a real site. The rule that follows is simple. If a short name you like is taken, it is probably in use, so two-word patterns adding a product category or a field are both easier to obtain and clearer to read.
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The lookup is answered by the registry's own service and returns the creation date, last update, expiry and name servers. Personal details are largely withheld under data protection rules. If you are considering taking over a review site, read the expiry date first and the sponsoring registrar second, because both shape how quickly a handover can happen. Query it through whois search.
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