.site Domain: A General-Purpose Address for Any Project
The .site registry agreement dates from 15 January 2015 and the zone entered the root on 6 March 2015. The contracting operator today is Radix Technologies Inc. SEZC, incorporated in the Cayman Islands; the string went first to DotSite Inc., moved to Radix FZC in 2021 and to the present entity in February 2024. Registry functions run on CentralNic Ltd. infrastructure.
This zone attaches to the idea of a website rather than to any industry. Personal portfolios, company presentation pages, campaign microsites, documentation hubs and event pages all gather here. No eligibility rule applies, and the operator runs one policy set across its whole portfolio. Test candidates on the .site domain search page and plan the serving side from the hosting page.
As measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 3,477,206 registrations, of which 1,833,632 appear in the zone file: only one name in two actually resolves. That makes it the third largest zone covered in this programme. Reading both numbers together yields a rule: size alone does not mean everything is gone, yet when your preferred name is taken there is roughly a coin-flip chance it is genuinely in use.
.SITE Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Radix Technologies Inc. SEZC (Cayman Islands)
- Root zone entry 6 March 2015
- Eligibility None; one policy set covers the whole portfolio
- Zone size 3,477,206 names, 1,833,632 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .site domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.site 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
$0.99 /year -
Transfer
$38.99 /year -
Renewal
$38.99 /year -
Restore
$169.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.00
Included With Every .site 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.
.site Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .site 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 .site 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 .site 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 $6.00 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 .site 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
.site Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.site Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .site domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.site Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .site Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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The extension names a format rather than an industry, so it serves projects whose subject cannot be summed up in one word. Personal portfolios, campaign microsites, documentation hubs and event pages are typical. If your work does sit in a clear category, a category-specific extension communicates faster. Compare your options on the .site search page before deciding.
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You can. On 13 August 2026 there were 3,477,206 registrations, but only 1,833,632 of them appeared in the zone file. That tells you short single-word roots went long ago, while two-word and niche combinations still leave a great deal of room. Start by pairing your brand with the project type, then test several variants together using bulk domain search.
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The operator publishes international character tables for this extension, so it is technically possible. Two checks belong before purchase, though: confirm that your registrar accepts those characters and that your mail and certificate tooling processes the name cleanly. Many teams register both the international and the ASCII spelling and redirect one to the other, which also catches typos from visitors.
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Both are general-purpose zones from the same registry operator; the difference is connotation. A .site address states the website idea plainly and stays neutral, while .space suggests room, venue and community, and picks up a second meaning for anything astronomical. Their zone sizes also differ sharply. Rule of thumb: neutral framing takes the first, a name that describes a place or a community takes the second.
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Release the transfer lock, request the authorisation code and file at the gaining registrar. A common wrinkle in this zone is that the name often sits with a site builder or cloud platform, so export a copy of the DNS records held there before you begin. Run the process from the domain transfer page and verify the outcome via whois search.
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