.rent

Register a .rent domain

Run by XYZ.COM LLC, not by Identity Digital, on CentralNic's registry platform. Open to anyone, but with an unusually large published premium list, so check the price on the exact name you want.

Extension type: Generic (gTLD)
Who can register: Open to anyone
Registry: XYZ.COM LLC
Renews at: CHF 54.15 / year

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.rent pricing

.rent prices by registration term
Term	1 year	2 years	3 years	4 years	5 years
Registration For a name nobody currently holds.	CHF 18.95	CHF 95.25	CHF 142.85	CHF 190.50	CHF 238.10
Renewal Every term after that. This is the number that matters most, so it sits on the same screen as the first one.	CHF 54.15	CHF 108.35	CHF 162.50	CHF 216.70	CHF 270.85
Transfer in Moving an existing name to us. Adds a year to the term rather than restarting it.	CHF 54.15one-off	Not offered	Not offered	Not offered	Not offered
Restore Recovering a name after it lapsed into redemption. Shown deliberately: it is the expensive one.	CHF 162.50one-off	Not offered	Not offered	Not offered	Not offered

Each figure is the total for that whole term, resolved live from the same pricing engine that charges your cart, so this page cannot advertise an amount checkout will not honour. Only the terms this registry actually sells are shown; an em-dash means that term is not on offer. A crossed-out price is a standing price a running promotion undercuts. Premium names are priced individually — search the exact name to see its own quote.

Before you register .rent

What the price includes: Every .rent amount on this page is resolved by the same pricing engine that charges your cart, at the moment the page is built. There is no separate ICANN fee, agency fee or surcharge added later — the figure you see is the figure you pay, in the currency shown.
Premium and reserved names: Some names are classed as premium by the registry and priced individually, usually at the premium rate every year rather than only the first. Search the exact name to see its own quote. If a name's premium status or price changes between your quote and your purchase, the quote is invalidated rather than quietly repriced.
Renewal is not automatic unless you switch it on: Auto-renew is off unless you enable it, and enabling it sets a flag at the registry rather than scheduling a charge here. We email the registrant address before a name expires, so keep a monitored address on the record. If a .rent name does lapse, restoring it costs considerably more than renewing it would have — the restore price is in the table above.
Transfers: Transferring .rent to us needs the AuthInfo (EPP) code from your current registrar, which they are obliged to give you on request. Where the registry operates a waiting period before a name may move — ICANN imposes one on generic extensions — it is set out in the facts above. That is registry policy, not ours, and we cannot waive it.

Eligibility

Open to anyone, anywhere

Registry: XYZ.COM LLC, on the CentralNic registry platform.

No eligibility test. The registry's Domain Name Policies impose no letting licence, estate agency registration or property ownership requirement, and there is no validation step before the name goes live.
You warrant on application that you hold the authority to apply and that the registration and its use will not breach applicable law, and that the contact data is current, complete and accurate and will be kept so.
The registry maintains Registry Reserved Names, will not ordinarily publish that list, and can add to it at its discretion, releasing names later by auction, premium sale or request for proposal.
A large share of the obvious labels are premium rather than reserved. Single letters, single digits, city names and the plain property words are all tiered, so a search may return a price well above the standard one.

A verb, not an industry

Most vertical extensions name a sector. .rent names a transaction, and that is what makes it useful and what limits it. A visitor reading brunnenhof.rent knows before the page loads that the building is available to let rather than for sale, which is exactly the ambiguity property marketing usually has to spend a headline resolving. The same holds for hire businesses, where the extension separates the rental arm from a dealership that also sells.

The limitation is the mirror image. Anything you might one day sell, or any business whose model shifts between selling and letting, ends up with an address that contradicts the offer. It is also a weak fit for the corporate layer of a property group, where a holding company, an investment vehicle or a fund needs to look institutional rather than transactional. The workable pattern is a .com or ccTLD for the company and .rent for the individual buildings, developments or hire lines beneath it.

The registry, and the premium list you should read first

IANA records the sponsoring organisation as XYZ.COM LLC, delegated in 2015, with technical operation contracted to CentralNic in London and RDAP served from CentralNic's infrastructure. It is a different registry from the Identity Digital extensions we sell, and its Domain Name Policies are its own document, currently version 2.0. Those policies set the one-to-ten-year term, reserve an unpublished set of names, and reserve the right to allocate reserved names later by auction or premium sale, so absence from a search result is not always the same as somebody else holding the name.

The detail worth an actual look before you commit is the premium tier list, which the registry publishes as a downloadable file. It runs to thousands of labels and covers precisely the words a rental business would reach for first: single letters and digits, home, homes, house, apartment, apartments, cars, and a long run of city names. Critically the tier applies to renewal and transfer as well as registration, so a premium .rent is a recurring cost decision rather than a one-off. We show registration, renewal, transfer and restore pricing on this page for the specific name you search, which is the only reliable way to see which tier, if any, you are in.

Terms and lifecycle

What holding a .rent actually commits you to

Term: The registry's policies set the term at no less than one year and no more than ten, running from the date the registry accepts the registration request. The policies put the duty to warn you about expiry on the registrar rather than the registry, which is us.
Premium name pricing: XYZ publishes a downloadable tier list for .rent, and the tier applies to registration, renewal and transfer alike, not just the first year. A tiered name therefore costs the premium rate every year you hold it. Short labels, US city names and words like home, house, apartment and cars are all on it.
If you miss the renewal: The registry auto-renew grace period runs first, up to 45 days, and through Openprovider we can renew at the ordinary price for 40 days after expiry. After deletion ICANN's 30-day redemption period applies, with DNS switched off and transfers out prohibited, then 5 days of pending delete. A restore costs far more than a renewal, and on a premium name it is priced against that name's tier.
Transfer lock: 60 days after registration and 60 days after a previous transfer, under ICANN's Transfer Policy. You will need the AuthInfo code from your current registrar, who must issue it within 5 calendar days of your request.
Registrant data and disputes: Standard gTLD contact data, no trustee service, no local presence. Disputes fall under UDRP and URS, which matters more than usual here because listing names collide with landlords, agents and platforms competing for the same words.

Fit

Who .rent is for

Letting and property management
For agents and landlords the pattern that works is the building, development or portfolio name plus .rent, so each block gets a memorable address on a flyer or a To Let board rather than a query string on a portal.
Equipment and vehicle hire
The registry treats non-property hire as squarely in scope, and plant, tools, vans, event kit and ski hire all read cleanly. It is one of the few extensions that describes a transaction rather than an industry, so a hire desk gets an address customers can guess.
When it is the wrong buy
If you sell as well as rent, or expect to, the suffix will fight you within a year, and a .com or your ccTLD stays neutral. The premium list is the other trap: if the only name that works is tiered, the annual cost is permanent and a good .com may well be cheaper over five years.

A listing site needs somewhere to run

Rental businesses tend to need availability calendars, enquiry forms and photo-heavy pages rather than a brochure. We can scope the domain and the hosting together, with onboarding controlled rather than self-serve.

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Frequently asked questions

Who runs .rent?

XYZ.COM LLC is the registry operator recorded by IANA, with CentralNic named as the technical contact and running the registry platform. It is not an Identity Digital extension, and its registration policies are published by XYZ rather than shared with the other vertical gTLDs.

Do I need to be a landlord or a letting agent?

No. .rent has no eligibility test, no licence check and no property ownership requirement. The registry describes it as an open namespace covering both property and non-property rental, from residential and commercial lettings to vehicles, equipment and services.

Why is the .rent name I want so much more expensive?

It is probably on the registry's published premium tier list, which covers single characters, common property words and many city names. The tier applies to renewal and transfer as well as the first registration, so the higher price recurs annually for as long as you hold the name.

What happens if I forget to renew a .rent domain?

The registry auto-renew grace period runs first and we can renew at the ordinary price for 40 days after expiry. After that the name is deleted into ICANN's 30-day redemption period, where it stops resolving and cannot be transferred to another registrar, and only a restore recovers it. Five days of pending delete follow, then it is released.

How long does a .rent registration last?

The registry's Domain Name Policies allow no less than one year and no more than ten, counted from the date the registry accepts the request. The policies explicitly make the registrar, not the registry, responsible for warning you before expiry.