.clinic Domains: Addresses for Practices and Health Centres
.clinic entered the root zone on 11 April 2014; the IANA record today names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation, with the original delegation made to Goose Park, LLC. No eligibility condition has been verified for registration. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 22,953 names in the zone.
The word reaches beyond healthcare: law clinics, veterinary practices and university teaching units all use it, so the root has to draw the line. Here is the rule worth following. Where the address will be typed by a patient booking an appointment, or read off a sign outside, choose a root that is short and unambiguous when spoken. Pairing a practitioner's name with a speciality is a common approach that works. Compare alternatives with a domain name search.
Nothing on the registry side describes a check on medical licences, operating permits or professional registration. The right to provide healthcare comes from the law where you practise, not from an address. Publish the practitioner's name, registration number and the clinic's licence details openly on the page; as a patient, confirm those details in the relevant official register rather than reading them off the domain.
.CLINIC Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 11 April 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Licence verification Not defined on the registry side
- Registered names 22,953 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .clinic domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.clinic 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$64.99 /year -
Renewal
$69.99 /year -
Restore
$164.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.clinic Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .clinic 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 .clinic 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 .clinic 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 $11.12 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 .clinic 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
.clinic Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.clinic Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .clinic domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.clinic Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .clinic Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Not for registration; no licence check is defined on the registry side.
Providing healthcare, however, depends on the law where you practise, on professional registration and on premises licensing, and that obligation follows from the work rather than the address. Holding the ending grants no clinical authority. Check the state of a name with a domain name search.
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No — law clinics and veterinary practices use the word just as readily.
University teaching units, animal health centres and advice clinics all carry the same term. What you actually offer is therefore communicated by the root you choose, not by the ending. To test several combinations together, use the bulk domain name search.
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The practitioner's name, registration number, premises licence and contact details.
Any page with a booking form or patient correspondence processes personal health data, so stating what you keep and for how long is both a legal duty and a matter of trust. An encrypted connection is not open to debate here — choose a certificate on the SSL certificate page.
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The nature of the service decides: treatment or ongoing care?
.clinic points at a place of examination and treatment, which suits appointments, specialities and details of the clinical team. .care covers support and wellbeing more broadly and reads better for home care or social services. Details sit on the .care domain page.
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A transfer starts with the authorisation code from your current registrar.
The transfer lock has to be open, sixty days must have passed since registration, and your administrative email address has to be working, because the approval link goes there. Check the current record with whois search, then start the move on the domain transfer page.
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Fairly easy — at 22,953 registrations the zone counts as mid-sized.
That figure comes from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026. Some common speciality words may be taken, while combinations of a practitioner's name, a district and a speciality remain widely open. Make sure the name can still be spelled correctly when read out over the phone.
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