.cab Domains: For Taxi and Transfer Services
.cab entered the root zone on 12 December 2013, and the IANA record names Binky Moon, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. Three letters, one syllable: easy to say over the phone, easy to letter on a vehicle and easy to remember. In English the word means a taxi, but it carries a second sense as well, covering the cab of a lorry or a piece of heavy machinery.
No published eligibility condition could be verified, so a taxi rank, an airport transfer service and a fleet operator all apply on the same terms. The decision rule: if your service moves people from one place to another, the name does its job. Keep the English origin in mind, though — for an audience that does not speak English, carrying the meaning in the root rather than in the ending reads more clearly. Test candidates with a domain name search.
.CAB Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone record 12 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Second sense of the word A driver's cab — lorries and heavy machinery
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .cab domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.cab Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$32.49 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.29
Included With Every .cab Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.cab Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .cab domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .cab address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .cab domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $6.29 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .cab returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.cab Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.cab Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .cab domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.cab Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .cab Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No published eligibility condition could be verified; the name appears open on a first-come basis. No commercial transport licence, plate or trade registration is requested, and the ordering flow carries no extra approval step. Permits for carrying passengers, by contrast, vary by country and city. The domain substitutes for none of them, so keep the two tracks separate.
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The word is English in origin and has no settled everyday equivalent in many languages. Rather than loading the meaning onto the ending, it is safer to put a local word in the root so the address explains the service as it is read. For an international audience — airport transfers, for instance — the word lands directly. Compare both approaches with a bulk domain name search.
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Mobile speed and the booking flow decide it. Most visitors arrive on a phone and often on a weak connection; a slow page means bookings abandoned half-finished. Because the form collects a name, a phone number, flight details and an address, an encrypted connection is mandatory. Install the certificate from the SSL certificate page and pick capacity on the hosting page.
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Yes, the extension is transferable. You remove the lock at the current registrar, collect the authorisation code and start the request at the new one; the name is expected not to have been registered or transferred in the previous 60 days. On a site taking bookings, prepare DNS records in advance so nothing drops. Run the move from the domain transfer page.
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Lettering on a vehicle is read in seconds and cannot be written down. A long address will not survive that; a three-letter ending leaves room for the root and lets you set the type larger. The same reasoning applies to an address given over the phone. When choosing, read the name aloud and test whether the listener spells it correctly on the first attempt.
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