The .rodeo Domain: A Small Zone for Western Culture
The .rodeo domain entered the root zone on 28 February 2014 under an ICANN agreement dated 19 December 2013, and its registry operator today is Registry Services, LLC. The text of that agreement was inherited from the first operator, Minds + Machines. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 4,047 registrations, of which 2,944 appeared in the zone file.
Rodeo events, riding clubs, horse ranches, western apparel and equipment sellers and regional festivals fill the register. There is no eligibility requirement at registration and no club membership is asked for. Try candidates in .rodeo domain search, and compare the .horse page for equine projects.
This extension's ICANN agreement carries an unusual eleven-point abuse package. The registry must publish acceptable use and naming rules, bind registrants to them during sign-up, run a flagging channel open to the public and to law enforcement, keep a single point of contact for authorities, and suspend or delete names used abusively. Nobody asks who you are; what is watched is how the address is used.
.RODEO Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Registry Services, LLC (GoDaddy Registry)
- Root zone entry 28 February 2014
- Contract rule Eleven-point abuse mitigation commitment
- Zone size 4,047 registrations, 2,944 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rodeo domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rodeo 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
$12.99 /year -
Transfer
$12.99 /year -
Renewal
$13.99 /year -
Late Renewal
$7.81
Included With Every .rodeo 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.
.rodeo Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .rodeo 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 .rodeo 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 .rodeo 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 $7.81 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 .rodeo 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
.rodeo Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.rodeo Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .rodeo domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.rodeo Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .rodeo Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, no membership or document is requested. The agreement defines no identity-based registration condition, so anyone may take a name for a lawful purpose. What the agreement does set out are rules on how the extension is used, and the registry is obliged to enforce them. Try candidates on the .rodeo search page.
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The agreement gives the registry concrete duties. Acceptable use rules are published and made binding during sign-up; a flagging channel is opened to the public and to law enforcement; a single point of contact is kept for authorities. Where a violation is confirmed, a name can be suspended or deleted, and other names held by the same registrant can be closed too.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 4,047 registrations with 2,944 in the zone file, about seventy-three per cent. The zone is small but far from dead: most registered names carry a working site. What follows for you is that short, meaningful stems are still findable, while recognition among visitors remains limited.
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The work itself decides. If you organise events, competitions and shows, the first sets the frame directly. If you do animal care, breeding, veterinary work or sales, .horse reads meaningfully to a wider audience. The two extensions belong to different registry operators and their zones are entirely independent of each other.
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Lift the lock, request the authorisation code and open the request at the gaining registrar. Names here are often taken for an annual event and nobody looks at them out of season, so do not squeeze the move into the renewal date. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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