.bike Domains: A Plain Address for Two-Wheel Work
.bike entered the root zone on 8 November 2013, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation — the registry arm of Identity Digital, based in Bellevue, Washington. It dates from the earliest months of the new extension wave. The address states its own subject: there is a two-wheel business here. You do not need to bolt the word bicycle onto your brand name, because the word already sits in the ending.
No published eligibility condition could be verified, so a shop, a repair workshop and a rental operation all apply on the same terms. The decision rule is short: if your brand is already known for bikes, a short name plus this ending explains the business at a glance. If the work reaches beyond bicycles, pick a wider name — changing an address later costs you links and search visibility. Test candidates in a domain name search.
.BIKE Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone record 8 November 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registry headquarters Bellevue, Washington
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .bike domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.bike 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
$38.99 /year -
Renewal
$41.99 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .bike 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.
.bike Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .bike 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 .bike 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 .bike 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 $6.73 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 .bike 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
.bike Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.bike Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .bike domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.bike Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .bike Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No published eligibility condition could be verified; the extension appears open on a first-come basis. You are not asked to prove you work in the cycling trade, show membership or file a trade registry extract. That is a real difference from restricted endings: the ordering flow carries no extra approval step. Even so, read your registrar's own agreement at checkout, because some conditions are set by the seller rather than the registry.
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Technically yes, but it costs you in communication. The ending announces the subject before anyone reads a word; on an unrelated business the visitor cannot connect address and content, and trust drops. For neighbouring fields — motorcycles, scooters, cycling tourism — the name still reads sensibly. If you are undecided, compare the same root across several endings with a bulk domain name search.
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Yes, the extension is transferable. The mechanics match other generic endings: you lift the transfer lock at your current registrar, collect the authorisation code and start the request at the new one. The name is expected not to have been registered or transferred within the previous 60 days. Run the move from the domain transfer page and confirm the ownership record with a whois search.
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If the site carries a basket, an account area or a contact form, do not launch without an encrypted connection. Browsers flag unencrypted pages with a warning, and at the payment step that warning turns straight into lost orders. A workshop site taking service bookings is no different, since the form collects a name and a phone number. Start the setup from the SSL certificate page.
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Only the singular form exists in the root zone; there is no separate .bikes top-level domain. So if you want a plural feel, you build it into the name rather than the ending. In practice that helps: you avoid splitting brand traffic between a singular and a plural address. If you still want both a short and a long variant reserved, that is simply two registrations.
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