Generic extension
.pay domain name
What you need to know about .pay: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .pay
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 3 to 63 characters
- Time to registration
- immediately
- Transfer time
- 5 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 1 to 10
- Renewable after expiry date
- 35 days
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: no
- IPv6: no
- Special characters: no
- Whois privacy: no
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .pay?
- During the sunrise period, only trademark holders registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse could apply for a .pay domain name. This period ran from 13 April 2026 to 20 July 2026 (12:00 UTC).
Good to know when registering
- .pay is a new extension being launched in phases. Open registration for everyone starts on 1 February 2027 at 13:00 UTC.
- Until 1 February 2027 (12:00 UTC), you can already submit an application for a .pay domain name. The application will be processed as soon as open registration starts.
- The Trademark Clearinghouse is used for the launch. As a result, an application for a name that matches a registered trademark may receive extra attention.
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