.today Domain: The Crowded Zone of Current Content
The .today extension entered the root on 13 November 2013; its ICANN agreement is dated 20 September 2013 and the contracting party is Binky Moon, LLC. The word carries a promise of daily publishing, event calendars and fresh content, and the zone is used by news sites, newsletter publishers, local listings and campaign pages. No eligibility condition applies and no press credential is requested.
Scale is the defining feature here: on 14 August 2026 the zone counted 700,883 registrations, placing it among the largest examined in this programme. Single-word generic roots should be treated as gone, and waiting for a short name rarely pays off. The productive pattern puts a brand or subject in the root instead. Test your candidates on the .today domain search page.
.TODAY Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 13 November 2013
- Eligibility None; no publishing or press credential is requested
- Agreement commitment As a dictionary term the zone must stay open to all lawful registrants
- Zone size 700,883 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .today domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.today 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
$3.99 /year -
Transfer
$28.59 /year -
Renewal
$30.79 /year -
Restore
$114.90 -
Late Renewal
$4.97
Included With Every .today 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.
.today Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .today 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 .today 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 .today 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 .today 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
.today Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.today Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .today domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.today Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .today Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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For generic words the odds are poor. Measured on 14 August 2026 the zone held 700,883 registrations, and at that scale treating single-word roots as gone is the realistic starting point. The productive route puts a brand name or a narrow subject in the root, since city, sector and community combinations remain open. Test dozens of ideas at once with bulk domain name search.
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No, it fits any project whose promise is freshness. An event calendar, a restaurant publishing a daily menu, a brand running campaign pages or a community with a newsletter archive all qualify equally. Because the agreement treats the string as a dictionary term, the registry cannot impose eligibility limits. The real test is different: if the page really is updated, the extension keeps its promise.
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For short campaigns it usually does not. A separate address splits link equity away from the main site and leaves a dead address once the campaign ends. The better pattern publishes the campaign as a directory under your main domain. A separate address earns its place only when the campaign will grow into a lasting brand, and then you should choose the name as a brand from the start.
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Put account and contact security first. Lookalike spellings are easier to find in a crowded zone, so watch the common misspellings of your brand. Keep two-step verification switched on for the domain account and point the registrar contact at a company mailbox rather than a personal one. Check your published registration data from time to time on the whois search page.
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It is not; the standard gTLD flow applies: lift the lock, obtain the authorisation code, open the request at the gaining provider. For a site publishing daily, the single point to watch is timing, so schedule the transfer on a quiet day and avoid changing name servers at the same moment. Start the process from the domain transfer page.
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