.tube Domain: A Short Address for Video Content
The .tube extension entered the root zone on 23 December 2015. Its registry operator is Latin American Telecom LLC, based in Pittsburgh; the ICANN agreement is dated 11 June 2015 and was extended for a further ten years on 19 March 2025. Channels keeping a broadcast archive, teams selling video courses, companies publishing corporate films and live streaming projects all take names here.
The word maps straight onto moving pictures in a viewer's mind, so the address explains itself. Measured on 14 August 2026 the zone held 6,599 registrations, which means the space is still thin and most short roots remain free. Try your channel name, your series name or your content type as the root and compare them on the .tube domain search page.
In the public interest section of its ICANN agreement the registry commits to an acceptable use policy: the rules are published openly, registrars make holders accept them during sign-up, a public reporting channel and a single point of contact for law enforcement are maintained, and an abused name can be suspended or deleted. The same section requires exact matches of geographic names and intergovernmental organisation names to be blocked at the second level, and a 60-day Sunrise run through the Trademark Clearinghouse.
.TUBE Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Latin American Telecom LLC (Pittsburgh, USA)
- Root zone entry 23 December 2015
- Agreement 11 June 2015; extended by ten years on 19 March 2025
- Agreement commitment AUP, 60-day Trademark Sunrise, geographic and IGO name blocking
- Zone size 6,599 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tube domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.tube 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
$35.50 /year -
Transfer
$35.50 /year -
Renewal
$39.05 /year -
Restore
$153.00 -
Late Renewal
$7.81
Included With Every .tube 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.
.tube Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .tube 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 .tube 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 .tube 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 .tube 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
.tube Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.tube Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tube domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.tube Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .tube Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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They answer to different registry operators and differ fivefold in size. On 14 August 2026 the .tube zone held 6,599 registrations against 33,255 in .video; the first belongs to Latin American Telecom LLC, the second to Dog Beach, LLC within Identity Digital. Their agreements differ too: .video carries a clause forbidding identity-based restriction plus an extended monitoring pledge, while .tube rests on an acceptable use policy. If you want a short root, the thinner zone leaves more choice; review the other one on the .video domain search page.
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The registry asks for no broadcasting document and verifies no channel, and the agreement sets no identity-based eligibility condition. Accepting the acceptable use policy is however part of registration, and that policy is the basis for suspending a name that is abused. The practical outcome: registering is open, but you are expected to use the name consistently with what you publish. A visitor arriving at a video address expects a player on the first screen; if your page is mostly text, the extension creates an expectation, and an expectation left unmet costs you conversions.
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Sunrise is the period before a zone opens to the public during which trademark owners exercise a priority right, and this agreement fixes it at sixty days. Even though the period has passed, the mechanism has a lasting effect: if your mark is recorded in the Trademark Clearinghouse, third parties trying to register the same string receive a notice. To see whether your brand name has already been taken here, use the whois search tool; if it has, the dispute route is UDRP.
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It does, and the effect is measurable. Against zones counting in the millions, 6,599 registrations is a very small number, and even common single-word roots can still be open. The decision rule is simple: a thin zone is the right place for a short, descriptive root and the wrong place if you need broad recognition. Rather than testing candidates one at a time, run them together through bulk domain name search and judge the shortlist on a second pass.
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You can. This is a top-level domain under an ICANN agreement, so transfers follow ICANN's Transfer Policy: you obtain the authorisation code from your current registrar, remove the transfer lock and start the process. A sixty-day waiting rule applies to names recently registered or recently transferred. Every step is set out on the domain transfer page.
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