.soccer Domain: A Football Address Read Across Borders
The .soccer registry agreement was signed on 26 March 2015 and the zone joined the root on 8 May 2015. Binky Moon, LLC is the contracting operator; the string first went to Foggy Shadow, LLC and moved across in the 2018 portfolio transfer. As measured on 13 August 2026, the zone holds 4,576 registrations, of which 3,645 appear in the zone file.
Amateur and youth clubs, football academies, five-a-side venues, coaches, supporter communities, statistics sites and equipment retailers populate this zone. No eligibility rule applies: no federation registration, no club licence. Test your shortlist on the .soccer domain search page, or compare several variants at once through bulk domain search.
This is a sports extension whose agreement carries no community provision: the rules stop at an open-registration commitment, and the operator may not impose identity-based limits. By contrast .ski, covered in the same programme, is recorded as a community extension and carries duties that bind both content and name selection. Never infer a zone's rules from its subject; read each agreement on its own.
.SOCCER Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 8 May 2015
- Eligibility None; the agreement bars identity-based limits
- Zone size 4,576 names, 3,645 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .soccer 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.
.soccer 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$25.99 /year -
Renewal
$27.99 /year -
Restore
$109.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.10
Included With Every .soccer 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.
.soccer Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .soccer 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 .soccer 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 .soccer 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 $4.10 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 .soccer 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
.soccer Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.soccer Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .soccer domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.soccer Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .soccer Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Yes, without obstacle. The agreement bars identity-based eligibility criteria, so the operator cannot ask for federation registration, a club licence or association paperwork. Amateur clubs, school teams and neighbourhood tournaments apply on exactly the same terms as professional sides. Try your club's name on the .soccer search page to see what remains available.
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This is an audience question, not a technical one. The word is standard in North America and Australia, while much of Europe, Africa and Asia says football. The decision rule: if you run an academy, a tournament or an equipment brand aiming beyond your own country, the international reading helps. If your audience is purely local, a root word in the local language makes the address more memorable.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 4,576 registrations with 3,645 of them in the zone file. That places it among the smaller zones in this programme. Major European club names have gone, but there is considerable room in local club, academy and tournament names. Try your club abbreviation, the abbreviation paired with the founding year, and the name with a city attached.
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Either works, but the naming differs. For a one-off tournament, including the year makes sense and the address redirects to an archive once the event closes. For a permanent club site, keep years, seasons and league names out: when the club is promoted the address starts telling visitors something untrue. A lasting address should carry the club's own name and nothing time-bound.
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Release the transfer lock, request the authorisation code from your current provider and file at the gaining one. A recurring problem in club football is that the name sits with a former committee member or volunteer, so confirm the registrant first through whois search, then start the move from the domain transfer page.
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