.video Domain: The Larger Zone for Moving Pictures
The .video extension entered the root zone on 17 December 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 16 October 2014 and was assigned on 2 December 2014. The contracting party is Dog Beach, LLC, part of Identity Digital. Production companies, education platforms, corporate communications teams, wedding and event videographers and channels keeping a broadcast archive all take names here.
The word reads the same in all four of our languages, so the address needs no translation and travels as a single brand across international projects. On 14 August 2026 the zone held 33,255 registrations, making it clearly the largest among extensions describing the same work. Try your brand name or your content type as the root and compare on the .video domain search page.
The list of commitments the registry gives for this extension contains two clauses more than its sibling zones. The registry additionally undertakes to verify registration data beyond the periodic audit and on a wider basis, and to monitor registered names regularly against abuses such as pharming, phishing, spam, botnets and copyright infringement. For a zone operating in a copyright-sensitive field that is not a sentence left on paper; it means notices of infringement have somewhere to land.
.VIDEO Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Dog Beach, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 17 December 2014
- Eligibility None; the agreement forbids identity-based restriction
- Additional commitment Extended registration data verification and regular abuse monitoring
- Zone size 33,255 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .video domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.video 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
$12.90 /year -
Transfer
$36.39 /year -
Renewal
$39.19 /year -
Late Renewal
$5.85
Included With Every .video 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.
.video Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .video 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 .video 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 .video 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 $5.85 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 .video 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
.video Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.video Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .video domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.video Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .video Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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The first recipient is always whoever hosts the content: the server provider or the platform. If a notice at domain level is needed, the registrar and then the registry follow. In this extension the registry has undertaken by contract to monitor abuses including copyright infringement on a regular basis, so an institutional recipient exists. To see who registered a name using your brand, use the whois search tool.
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The domain and the hosting are two separate decisions. Because video files are large and bandwidth climbs steeply with concurrent viewers, keeping that content on a shared plan is usually inefficient; the common solution is to hold the video on a streaming service and run the site on your own plan. For the site side, compare the options on the hosting page.
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Matching is usually the right call, because viewers already know the channel name and repetition in the address makes it stick. The point to watch is whether that name is a trademark belonging to a platform; taking someone else's mark as your root invites a dispute. If the name is your own, registering the address is the most direct way to own it outside the platform, and it stays yours even if platform policy changes.
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Choose the large zone for scale and recognition, and a small one for a short, descriptive root. In this zone of 33,255 names most common single-word roots are taken, while in exchange your visitor has seen the extension more often. To see the alternative, look at the .tube domain search page: it holds 6,599 registrations and the choice there is far wider.
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Using the subject as the root matches search intent best: visitors look for the topic, not for your brand name. On the build side two things matter. A certificate is mandatory if you take payment; and publish a text equivalent of your video pages, because neither a search engine nor a screen reader can read what is inside the picture. Adding a written summary pays off for accessibility and for visibility alike.
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