.technology Domain: A Technology Address With an Institutional Tone
The .technology zone entered the root on 8 November 2013 and its ICANN agreement is dated 13 September 2013, which makes it one of the earliest delegations of the new extension programme. The IANA delegation report shows the zone was originally recorded to Auburn Falls; the contracting party today is Binky Moon, LLC.
The longer form carries an institutional tone. Engineering and consulting firms, research units, systems manufacturers and enterprise software teams populate the zone. No eligibility condition applies and no document is requested. Compare candidates that pair a company name with a field of expertise on the .technology domain search page.
The two are frequently confused, yet all they share is the word. .technology belongs to Binky Moon, LLC and was delegated in 2013; .tech belongs to Radix Technologies Inc. and was delegated in 2015. Their zones also differ by roughly twenty times in size. Do not assume that a name free in one is free in the other; you have to query the same name separately in each zone.
.TECHNOLOGY Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 8 November 2013
- Original delegation The zone was first recorded to Auburn Falls
- Eligibility None; the agreement carries an open registration commitment
- Zone size 40,641 registrations, 33,311 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .technology domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.technology 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
$28.59 /year -
Renewal
$30.79 /year -
Restore
$119.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.97
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Free DNS management
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.technology Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .technology 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 .technology 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 .technology 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 $4.97 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 .technology 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
.technology Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.technology Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .technology domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.technology Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .technology Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, they answer to different organisations. IANA records name Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party for .technology and Radix Technologies Inc. for .tech. Their delegation dates differ too: one in 2013, the other in 2015. In practice that means rules, pricing policy and the pool of free names are independent in each zone, and a name you hold in one is not automatically yours in the other.
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It depends on context. A long extension takes more room in an email signature and on a business card; in exchange it carries an institutional tone that builds confidence for engineering, consulting and research organisations. The decision rule: choose the short form if the address will be shared aloud frequently, and the long form if it will appear in written proposals and reports.
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Measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 40,641 registrations, of which 33,311 appear in the zone file, roughly eighty-two percent. That describes a mid-sized zone in genuine use. Generic words are taken, yet combinations of company name and expertise leave a wide field open; try a few variants together with bulk domain name search.
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The zone was delegated in 2013, but the operator has not stayed the same. The delegation report published by IANA shows the zone was originally recorded to Auburn Falls, while the contracting party today is Binky Moon, LLC. Transfers of this kind are common among new extensions and change nothing for a registrant; the commitments in the agreement pass with the transfer.
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Yes, the standard gTLD transfer applies: lift the lock, obtain the authorisation code, open the request at the gaining provider. In corporate settings the point to watch is authorisation, because domain management often lives in an IT account and access can vanish when staff leave. Update permissions before you move, then run the process from the domain transfer page.
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