The .rich Domain: A Small Zone With a Tall Position
The .rich domain entered the root zone on 16 January 2014 under an ICANN agreement dated 21 November 2013, and the registry operator is iRegistry GmbH of Berlin. Identity Digital runs the technical back end, so the company that signed the contract and the company that operates the servers are two different organisations. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 580 registrations, 507 of them present in the zone file.
Private advisory firms, asset managers, luxury goods and lifestyle brands make up most of the register. No income statement, wealth certificate or membership record is asked for at registration, because the agreement sets no identity-based condition. The zone is small enough that single-word stems remain findable. Try candidates in .rich domain search and compare the group's other extension on the .onl page.
The registry's own material presents the extension as a closed circle. The ICANN agreement, however, sets no eligibility requirement at all: Specification 11 carries only the general commitments and contains no voluntary restriction list. The practical rule follows from that. An address confers no standing on its own; it supplies a frame. If the content behind it does not match the frame, a visitor notices within seconds.
.RICH Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator iRegistry GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
- Root zone entry 16 January 2014
- Eligibility No restriction defined in the registry agreement
- Zone size 580 registrations, 507 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rich domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rich 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
$2,299.00 /year -
Transfer
$2,469.99 /year -
Renewal
$2,659.99 /year -
Late Renewal
$440.00
Included With Every .rich 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.
.rich Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .rich 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 .rich 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 .rich 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 $440.00 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 .rich 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
.rich Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.rich Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rich domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rich Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .rich Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, no document is requested. The extension's ICANN agreement defines no identity-based eligibility condition; Specification 11 carries only the general commitments and no voluntary restriction list at all. Income, banking records and membership are never asked for. Registration runs on a first-come, first-served basis. Try candidates on the .rich search page.
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The address makes a positioning promise, and the content has to meet it. Asset management, private banking advisory, collecting and auction businesses, prime property and upper-segment lifestyle publishing all sit comfortably in that frame. For a modest product or service the same address works against you, opening a visible gap between what the name suggests and what the visitor finds.
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Yes, because the zone is genuinely small. On 13 August 2026 it held 580 registrations, 507 of which appeared in the zone file. That is a fraction of a percent of what most extensions in its category carry. The practical consequence: if your preferred stem is gone in the large zones, try it here, but price in the lower recognition too.
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Lift the lock, request the authorisation code and start the request at the gaining registrar. Names in this zone often sit in an adviser's or an agency's account, so confirm before you begin that the address on record reaches a company mailbox. Start the process from the domain transfer page and verify the record with whois search.
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The contracting party is iRegistry GmbH of Berlin, while Identity Digital operates the technical back end. Conflating the two is a common mistake: the back-end provider runs the servers, whereas the registry operator is the party answerable to ICANN for the rules of the extension. The group's other extension changed hands in early 2026; .rich stayed with the same party.
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