Generic extension
.free domain name
What you need to know about .free: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .free
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 2 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 .free?
Good to know when registering
- .free launched in phases in 2025. First came a sunrise period for trademark holders with a registration in the Trademark Clearinghouse, from 18 March to 2 May 2025.
- This was followed by an early access period in five daily phases, from 12 to 16 May 2025 inclusive.
- Since 19 May 2025, anyone can register .free names.
- When general registration opened, a Trademark Clearinghouse claims period applied. If a name matched a registered trademark, you received a notice about it.
- Fees for applications during the early access period were non-refundable, even if the application failed.
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