.voto Domain: The Spanish and Portuguese Ballot Zone
The .voto extension entered the root zone on 13 February 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 21 November 2013 and the contracting party is Monolith Registry LLC, part of Identity Digital. The word means vote in both Spanish and Portuguese, so in countries speaking either language the address is understood without translation.
The zone is far smaller than its English counterpart: 1,438 registrations on 14 August 2026. That means a good share of campaign and organisation names remains open. Test your candidate roots on the .voto domain search page, and check the same name in the English equivalent as well.
.VOTO Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Monolith Registry LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 13 February 2014
- Agreement 21 November 2013; carries no additional public interest commitment
- Language twin Same registry and same agreement date as .vote
- Zone size 1,438 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .voto domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.voto 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
$32.90 /year -
Transfer
$70.19 /year -
Renewal
$75.59 /year -
Restore
$189.90 -
Late Renewal
$14.63
Included With Every .voto 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.
.voto Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .voto 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 .voto 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 .voto 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 $14.63 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 .voto 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
.voto Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.voto Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .voto domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.voto Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .voto Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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The common solution is to take both addresses: make the one in your target language the main address and put the other on a permanent redirect. That way a voter reaches the right page whichever word they remember, and it closes off the risk of a rival registration. Since both answer to the same registry operator, no extra complexity arises in administration. You can check the English zone on the .vote domain search page.
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It can, but there should be a reason. The agreement sets no language, country or eligibility condition, and registration is entirely open. The word, however, is not in everyday Turkish use, so the address does not explain itself to a local visitor. The extension finds its real fit in projects addressing Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets. For a local ballot, a Turkish root with a more neutral extension works better.
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It is an advantage for availability and a disadvantage for recognition. With 1,438 registrations most campaign, organisation and city names remain open; a root that is hard to obtain in the English equivalent can come easily here. In exchange, your visitor has seen the extension less often. The way to balance that is to write the address in full in your visual material and repeat it without abbreviating. Try candidates together with bulk domain name search.
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It does not. The extension's ICANN agreement carries no additional public interest commitment and no community section, so no special obligation is imposed regarding election security, publication of results or political content. Duties of that kind arise from the activity and from the electoral law of the country you operate in. The extension only says what the address is about; it does not regulate the process.
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Because a ballot flow carries identity and preference in the same request; sending both unencrypted means how someone voted can be read in transit. The browser also warns your visitor, and the warning lowers participation. In any process built on the secrecy of the ballot, an encrypted connection is a precondition rather than a preference; compare the options on the SSL certificate page.
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