Dropped .si names, free again.
Names their holders let go: short ones and real English words that left the .si registry this month and nobody has taken since.
How a name gets here.
- Hivex watches short .si names and about 12,000 everyday English words as they reach their expiry date.
- When one leaves the .si registry, Hivex notes the moment. A day later it appears here, if it still has no DNS record.
- It stays for 30 days, and leaves at once if someone registers it.
Before you register.
A dropped name may carry its past: old links, an old reputation with mail filters, or a trademark someone still holds. Look it up in the domain history and blacklist tools first, and search the trademark registers if you will build a brand on it.
Questions people ask.
What is a dropped domain?
A name its holder did not renew. After the registry's grace period it is deleted, and from then on anyone can register it again.
Where does this list come from?
Hivex's site watcher keeps asking the .si registry about short names and about 12,000 common English words as they expire, and notes when one leaves the registry. A name appears here a day after it drops and stays for 30 days, unless someone registers it.
Does it show names before they drop?
No. The .si registry's terms do not allow republishing its records, so the page lists only names that have already dropped, which is a question of whether they are free.
Is every name here really free?
Each one had no DNS record when the list was last built, at most 10 minutes ago. The registrar confirms it at checkout; a name can be taken between the two.
Can I hear about new free names?
Yes: the names index can email you when new free .si names match a search you save.
Hivex index
Short names, still free to register.
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Sources
By Hivex. Updated 11 October 2026. Names come from Hivex's own watch of the .si registry and are checked in DNS each time the list is rebuilt, every 10 minutes. Nothing about you is stored.