.work Domain: A General Address for Work and Trades
The .work extension entered the root zone on 18 August 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 19 December 2013 and the contracting party today is Registry Services, LLC. The word covers labour, profession and craft at once: portfolio sites, job boards and freelance platforms, internal tools and team pages all take addresses here. On 14 August 2026 the zone held 522,309 registrations.
There is no eligibility condition. The public interest section of the agreement does give the operator concrete duties: publish use and naming rules, make them binding on registrants through registrars, run a flagging channel open to the public and suspend names that break them. Try roots on the .work domain search page.
The two look like singular and plural of one word, yet they answer to different registry operators: .work to Registry Services, LLC and .works to Binky Moon, LLC. Their agreement dates, public interest regimes and zone sizes differ as well. The decision rule: the singular reads more naturally when you describe a service or a trade, while the plural fits better for a body of work, a set of projects or a workshop. If you plan to hold both, budget for the renewal of both.
.WORK Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Registry Services, LLC
- Root zone entry 18 August 2014
- Registry agreement 19 December 2013
- Similar string .works — different operator and separate agreement
- Zone size 522,309 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .work domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.work 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
$12.99 /year -
Transfer
$12.99 /year -
Renewal
$13.99 /year -
Restore
$94.90 -
Late Renewal
$3.50
Included With Every .work 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.
.work Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .work 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 .work 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 .work 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 $3.50 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 .work 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
.work Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.work Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .work domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.work Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .work Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, they are separate extensions with different registry operators behind them.
.work belongs to Registry Services, LLC and .works to Binky Moon, LLC; their agreements, dates and public interest duties are all separate. The zone sizes are not comparable either. In practice you choose by meaning: the singular reads naturally for a service or a trade, the plural for a body of work or a collection of projects.
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Yes, particularly when your own first and last name form the root.
A name combination already taken in the classic extensions can still be free here, and read aloud the address also says what you do. Because you can run email on the same domain, contact details stay in one place. To review candidate combinations, use bulk domain search.
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With 522,309 registrations this is one of the larger zones in the group, so common single-word roots are gone.
What remains findable are trade-plus-city, brand-plus-service and two-part descriptive combinations. A practical method: start with your trade, then add the city you work in, which also helps in local search. If the answer comes back taken, trying a synonym usually beats shortening the word.
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Yes, any domain you register can carry an email service.
Pointing the MX records at your provider is all it takes. Using a separate root for team pages and internal tools makes it easier to keep that space independent of your main brand and to separate access rules. If you need web space alongside the domain, look through our hosting plans.
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The name is not deleted the moment the term ends; it passes through renewal and redemption stages first.
During those stages the address can stop working without becoming available to anyone else, and it can be recovered for an extra fee inside the redemption window. The WHOIS status codes tell you exactly which stage applies. Keeping auto-renewal on is the safest way not to miss the date; run the lookup from our whois search page.
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