Generic extension
.phone domain name
What you need to know about .phone: who can register it, which details are required and how transferring works.
Specifications
The key details of .phone
- 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 .phone?
Good to know when registering
- .phone is being introduced in phases. You can submit an application for a domain name from 6 October 2026.
- The first phase is the sunrise phase. You can submit applications for it until 4 January 2027, 23:00 UTC.
- This is followed by an early access period with a separate phase for each day, from 5 to 15 January 2027 inclusive. The final phase runs from 16 to 18 January 2027 inclusive.
- For each early access phase, the application period runs until 23:00 UTC on the last day of that phase.
- From 19 January 2027, .phone is generally available. You can submit applications for this phase until 18 January 2027, 23:00 UTC.
- The Trademark Clearinghouse, the central database for trademark rights for new extensions, is used in all phases.
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