Buy .xin Domain Name

No. IANA's root zone record lists .xin explicitly as a generic top-level domain; it is not a country extension tied to an ISO country code. The agreement signed with ICANN is the standard, non-sponsored base agreement, and it carries no attachment imposing a community restriction. The Chinese connection is nonetheless real: the registry is Elegant Leader Limited, an Alibaba company based in Hong Kong, the audience is the Chinese-speaking market, and the extension belongs to a registry approved for ICP filings in China. In short, .xin is not China's official country extension but an open generic extension aimed at the Chinese market.

Anyone. The registry's own knowledge base presents .xin as suitable both for businesses and for private individuals; the ICANN agreement imposes no residency, local address, document or trustee requirement, and no attachment narrows registration to a defined community. The agreement separately forbids a registry with a generic string from limiting registrations to one company and its affiliates. You do not buy from the registry itself but through an ICANN-accredited registrar, and the registry's monthly reports show dozens of different registrars active in the zone, some of them based outside China.

From one to ten years, in whole-year steps. That is measured rather than assumed: in the monthly reports the registry files with ICANN, every term column from one year to ten years is reported separately, and several of them carry entries. So a two, three, five, six or ten-year .xin registration is perfectly possible; there is no rule forcing even-numbered years or a fixed block, as some country extensions do. Actual behaviour leans heavily on one year: the large majority of new names are taken for a single year and extended later by renewal.

One character. The registry's lookup service performs genuine syntax validation: strings with a leading or trailing hyphen, or with an underscore, come back as a malformed request, while reserved names return their own distinct notice. Single letters and single digits fall into neither class and simply report as unregistered. The rule text points the same way: the schedule of reserved names in the ICANN agreement withholds only two-character labels, not one-character ones. The upper limit is sixty-three characters. Bear in mind that short names may sit in a premium fee tier; you see the amount at checkout.

Yes. The question in the registry's knowledge base reads, word for word, whether a website filing can be made with a .xin domain, and the answer is that it can. The registry also publishes on its own site the registry-operator approval it holds from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with a verification link pointing straight at the ministry's domain portal. That is an advantage most new generic extensions lack: it keeps a site destined for a mainland Chinese server from being turned away over its extension. The paperwork and identity checks on the hosting side come from local regulation, not from the registry.

Because .xin is a generic extension, ICANN's transfer policy applies directly. You ask your current registrar for the authorisation code, have the transfer lock removed and hand the code to the new provider; no transfer is possible during the first sixty days after registration or after a previous transfer. This is not a paper right: completed transfers show up every month in the registry's own reports. For holders who want the name frozen at registry level, a separate lock service is available. You can start the process on the domain transfer page.

No. The registry's output carries no holder name, organisation, address, telephone number or email address at all; even the registration identifier is printed as redacted. What you do see is the domain, the registrar's details, the creation, update and expiry dates, the status codes, the name servers and the DNSSEC flag. In other words your personal data is withheld without your having to buy a separate privacy product. Access to non-public data is assessed only on a request that demonstrates a legitimate interest and a legal basis. Check your own record on the whois search page.

The familiar generic chain runs. At expiry the name first enters a grace period during which only you may renew it. If it is then deleted, ICANN's policy on recovering expired registrations opens a thirty-day redemption period, and the name can be restored through the registrar that deleted it. When redemption ends the name moves into a five-day pending-delete stage and is finally released to anyone. That restoration is not theoretical: the number of restored names in the registry's monthly reports is above zero. Restoring costs extra, though, so not missing the expiry date is the cheaper route.

The registry's March 2026 report to ICANN shows 129,412 names. That figure is the registry's own declaration, not a third party's estimate. The zone has had a turbulent history: it peaked in March 2018 at 394,505 names, then fell sharply, and over the last two years has climbed back above one hundred thousand. The registrar mix changed as well; in the peak years almost every name sat with Alibaba's own registrar, whereas today the portfolio is spread across several companies. That scale shows a zone that is actively maintained and genuinely being sold.