.surgery Domain: A Small, Genuinely Active Clinical Zone
The .surgery zone entered the root on 17 April 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 20 March 2014 and the contracting party is Binky Moon, LLC. The word carries two meanings at once: an operative procedure in American usage, a general practitioner's consulting rooms in British usage. Both live in this zone.
Measured on 13 August 2026 the zone is small at 1,967 registrations, yet 1,637 of them appear in the zone file. Small does not mean dormant here, and short, direct names remain within reach. Clinic name, specialty and city combinations still work well. Test your candidates on the .surgery domain search page.
This zone parts company with most extensions that merely sound like a regulated profession. The public interest commitments require your registrar to obtain a declaration that you hold the authorisations, charters and licences needed to operate in the sector, and to require you to report material changes to them. If a complaint casts doubt on the authenticity of those credentials, the operator consults the relevant national supervisory authorities. Even so, no document is collected at registration and the domain grants you no clinical authority.
.SURGERY Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 17 April 2014
- Contract commitment Licence declaration taken; national authorities consulted where doubt arises
- Documents Not requested at registration; a declaration suffices
- Zone size 1,967 registrations, 1,637 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .surgery domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.surgery 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
$54.90 /year -
Transfer
$54.99 /year -
Renewal
$60.49 /year -
Restore
$154.90 -
Late Renewal
$12.10
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.surgery Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .surgery 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 .surgery 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 .surgery 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 $12.10 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 .surgery 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
.surgery Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.surgery Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .surgery domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.surgery Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .surgery Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No document is collected at registration, but the agreement is not empty either. Your registrar takes a declaration that you hold the authorisations and licences needed to operate in the sector, and requires you to report material changes to them. If a complaint arrives, the operator may consult national supervisory authorities. The test is therefore not paperwork but the truth of the declaration; a false one creates problems later.
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No domain confers authority. Licensing and specialist recognition arise from practice and fall under the health law of the country concerned; an address only makes you findable. The distinction matters for patient safety: if your page asserts a specialism, that claim has to rest on your own registration, and the existence of the extension provides no support for it whatsoever.
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Not a problem, but it does force a deliberate choice. In Britain the term suggests a general practice consulting room; in North America it suggests an operative procedure. Build the root around whichever audience you serve: a practitioner name plus district reads clearly for general practice, while a specialty name reads clearly for surgical work. Both meanings share the zone, so the disambiguation has to come from you.
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It has not. Measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 1,967 registrations with 1,637 in the zone file, a rate above eighty-three percent. That describes a small but genuinely active zone. The advantage for you is direct: short, plain names have not been exhausted the way they are in large zones. Test your clinic name together with a few variants through bulk domain name search.
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The data you collect is health data and has to be protected. The agreement carries a commitment requiring registrants who hold sensitive health and financial data to apply reasonable security measures proportionate to the service offered. In practice that means an encrypted connection, limited retention and access logging. Plan certificate installation from the SSL certificate page and build the form with only the fields you truly need.
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