Create a clear online home for a church, ministry, faith community, charity, event, school, media project, or outreach program. Search one name, register related ministries in bulk, or transfer existing .CHURCH domains to NiceNIC.
Need help with .CHURCH availability or account pricing? Review reseller and account options for bulk registration and portfolio management.
.CHURCH communicates purpose directly, but a faith organization also needs dependable renewal, DNS, transfer, security, and account control. NiceNIC supports the full domain lifecycle plus bulk and reseller workflows.
Add funds and pay for domain services using supported crypto options such as USDT, BTC, ETH, and LTC. Automated crypto deposit recording helps account balances update quickly after successful confirmation, with no extra NiceNIC processing fee for automated deposits.
NiceNIC provides real human support, not only scripted replies. Our team can review your domain needs, explain practical options, and give account-level, transfer, bulk registration, and reseller suggestions to help your domain business grow.
NiceNIC does not take arbitrary action against domains. Abuse reports are reviewed based on available evidence, policies, and registry requirements, with domain owners guided to review, fix, or explain reported issues where appropriate.
Manage .CHURCH together with 2,500+ domain extensions from one NiceNIC account, including country-code, generic, and new domain extensions. This helps businesses, investors, and resellers build global domain coverage more efficiently.
NiceNIC supports 47+ website languages, creating a multilingual registrar experience for international users and teams. This makes domain registration, renewal, transfer, account management, and support easier across different markets.
For hosting providers, agencies, platforms, and domain resellers, NiceNIC supports reseller API access for domain registration, renewal, transfer, DNS, account-level pricing, and custom nameserver services.
IANA records .CHURCH as a generic top-level domain in the Identity Digital registry portfolio, with a root-zone registration date in 2014. The official ICANN transaction report for April 2026 recorded 69,292 domains.
Official ICANN count for April 2026.
Churches, ministries, charities, education, events, and outreach.
.CHURCH entered the root zone in 2014.
This chart marks .CHURCH within the new-gTLD category and compares it with the broader Q1 2026 domain market.
A descriptive extension can reduce ambiguity and give members, visitors, donors, and volunteers a memorable destination.
The suffix identifies a church or faith-based project before a visitor opens the website.
Congregations, schools, charities, events, media, counseling, missions, and outreach can use relevant names.
No local-presence requirement applies, while normal registry, reserved-name, and acceptable-use rules remain in force.
Same-month ICANN transaction reports provide a consistent five-year view of the active .CHURCH domain base.
Selected public sales show demand for memorable congregation names, ministry brands, and faith-centered terms under .CHURCH.
A local congregation, ministry, charity, and church-network platform each need a different combination of registration, DNS, transfer, portfolio, and automation support.
Create a clear home for service times, directions, sermons, groups, announcements, and contact information.
Use a focused address for missions, counseling, youth, media, worship, or community programs.
Support donations, volunteer work, conferences, camps, schools, or seasonal programs.
Manage domains for multiple congregations, ministries, or client organizations at scale.
If you already own .CHURCH domains elsewhere, transfer decisions should not be based only on one renewal invoice. Check transfer eligibility, ownership access, billing reliability, support response time, API needs, and long-term domain management.
Paste multiple .CHURCH names, remove duplicates, review the count, and continue to bulk registration. This is useful for domain investors, brand teams, agencies, hosting providers, and resellers.
Enter one name per line, with or without .CHURCH. The tool removes duplicates and prepares a clean list for bulk registration.
If your business sells hosting, websites, SaaS, agency services, or brand protection packages, NiceNIC reseller APIs can support domain registration, renewal, transfer, DNS, and account management.
# NiceNIC API v2 endpoint
# Applies to supported domain extensions, including .com, .net, .org, ccTLDs, and new gTLDs
https://api.nicenic.net/v2/
# Required headers
Authorization: username:api_secret
Content-Type: application/json
# Check domain availability across multiple extensions
curl "https://api.nicenic.net/v2/?category=domain&action=check&domains=example.com,example.net,mybrand.org" \
-H "Authorization: username:api_secret" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
# Get registration / renewal / transfer pricing for any supported extension
curl "https://api.nicenic.net/v2/?category=domain&action=get_price&domain=example.com&type=register&year=1" \
-H "Authorization: username:api_secret" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
# Change the domain value to query another TLD:
# example.com, example.net, example.org, example.ai, example.co
# Standard response format
{
"code": 0,
"msg": "success",
"data": {}
}
Short answers about registry management, open registration, current counts, transfer, DNSSEC, multi-domain use, bulk tools, and reseller support.
.CHURCH is a new generic top-level domain designed for churches, ministries, faith communities, charities, events, education, media, and outreach projects.
IANA lists .CHURCH within the Identity Digital registry platform and records Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organization.
In general, .CHURCH is open worldwide and does not require local presence. The name must be available and follow registry, ICANN, reserved-name, and acceptable-use rules.
IANA records the .CHURCH registration date as May 8, 2014.
The official ICANN transaction report for April 2026 recorded 69,292 .CHURCH domains. This page displays 69.3K for readability.
Yes, when standard gTLD transfer conditions are met. Unlock the domain, obtain the authorization code, confirm contact access, and submit the transfer request. Open the NiceNIC transfer page.
The Identity Digital registry platform supports DNSSEC. Activation also depends on registrar support and correctly configured DNS records.
Yes. A church can protect its main name and register separate names for ministries, campuses, events, media, or outreach, subject to availability. Prepare a bulk list.
NiceNIC supports reseller accounts, bulk management, WHMCS-related workflows, and a domain reseller API for supported .CHURCH operations. Review the reseller API.
Register a new .CHURCH, transfer an existing domain, or upgrade your account level for bulk registration and reseller API use.
