.webcam Domain: An Address for Live Camera Feeds
The .webcam extension entered the root zone on 6 March 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 23 January 2014 and the registry operator is dot Webcam Limited. The operator describes the zone as a space for people who create and publish content through a camera, while day-to-day operating and coordination functions are provided by Global Registry Services Limited.
The ending states what an address does in a single word: live camera streams, remote monitoring dashboards, weather and traffic cameras, workshop or construction-site views. The agreement sets no eligibility condition and its application commitments section is deliberately left blank. Try candidate roots on the .webcam domain search page.
On 14 August 2026 the zone held 2,694 registrations, far below most extensions measured in the same period. That cuts both ways. Strong single-word roots are very likely free, so a city name, a topic or your brand can be tried directly. On the other hand a visitor may be seeing the ending for the first time, so if the address goes on printed material, a short explanatory line next to it protects your conversion.
.WEBCAM Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator dot Webcam Limited
- Root zone entry 6 March 2014
- Registry agreement 23 January 2014
- Operations Global Registry Services Limited (GRS Domains)
- Zone size 2,694 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .webcam domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.webcam 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
$29.99 /year -
Transfer
$29.99 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.00
Included With Every .webcam 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.
.webcam Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .webcam 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 .webcam 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 .webcam 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 $7.00 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 .webcam 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
.webcam Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.webcam Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .webcam domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.webcam Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .webcam Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, the registry agreement sets no eligibility condition.
The application commitments section is deliberately left blank, so there is no extra restriction for the operator to enforce and anyone may register. What the ending does do is announce the purpose of the address, so a project with no camera or streaming element ends up contradicting visitor expectations. The rule of thumb: use it when a real video feed or monitoring tool sits on the page.
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It suits any project where the address itself points at a live image source.
Concrete cases: a beach or ski resort view, a city traffic camera service, a hotel showing its panorama, a corporate dashboard streaming a production line, an animal shelter feed. When the root names the place or the subject, the address explains itself without help. Test several combinations at once with bulk domain search.
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In practice yes, because browsers restrict camera and location features on unencrypted pages.
Modern browsers expect a secure connection before granting device access, so a video feed on an unencrypted address can be blocked in ways that are hard to debug. A visitor who sees a warning in the address bar will also distrust the stream. Install the certificate before you publish; compare the options on our SSL certificate page.
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The zone held 2,694 registrations on 14 August 2026, and that is not a technical problem.
Name resolution, DNSSEC support and transfer rights do not depend on how many names a zone contains. The only real effect is recognition: some visitors will meet the ending for the first time. In exchange, short and exact roots are still free. If brand protection matters, register the same root in a better-known extension and redirect it.
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This extension still runs a WHOIS service on port 43 and answers queries.
The server published in the IANA record was checked on 14 August 2026 and returned the registration date, the status codes and the sponsoring registrar. Reading the status codes on a name close to expiry tells you exactly which stage of the renewal cycle it has reached. Run the lookup from our whois search page.
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