.christmas Domains: An Ending Built for the Holiday Season
.christmas entered the root zone on 13 February 2014, and the IANA record names XYZ.COM LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The ending was launched in 2014 by a different operator and later moved into its present portfolio. No eligibility condition has been verified. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 records 42,543 names in the zone.
The part people overlook about a seasonal ending is that the name belongs to you for the other eleven months too. Registration terms do not follow the calendar of the season: a name expires on its registration anniversary, not in December. So the rule reads as follows. For a gift catalogue, a holiday campaign or an event page, a separate address works well, provided you plan the out-of-season redirect to your main site from the start. Try candidates with a domain name search.
.CHRISTMAS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation XYZ.COM LLC
- Root zone record 13 February 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 42,543 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .christmas domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.christmas 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
$48.90 /year -
Transfer
$44.84 /year -
Renewal
$53.79 /year -
Restore
$159.90 -
Late Renewal
$9.86
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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.
.christmas Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .christmas 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 .christmas 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 .christmas 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 $9.86 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 .christmas 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
.christmas Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.christmas Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .christmas domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.christmas Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .christmas Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Anyone can; no eligibility condition has been verified.
XYZ.COM LLC, the sponsoring organisation, asks for no document or organisational record. A retailer, a hotel, a council event or a charity all apply on the same terms. Choosing a root that carries your brand keeps the address meaningful once the season ends. To see whether it is free, run a domain name search.
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Out of season, the usual answer is a redirect to your main site.
The name is yours all year, so you open the campaign page in November and drop the redirect back in January. That saves you from introducing a new address every year, and the links earned in the previous season stay pointed at something. If you need separate infrastructure behind it, look at the hosting plans.
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No — it expires on its registration anniversary, whatever the season.
Register a name in July and it comes up for renewal the following July. This distinction gets missed on seasonal endings, and the address can lapse right in the middle of campaign preparation. Leaving auto-renewal switched on is the practical answer. You can confirm the creation and expiry dates through whois search.
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Yes where you take orders or forms, and it is advisable even on a brochure page.
Browsers flag pages without a certificate as not secure, and that warning costs conversions directly during the shopping season. On a page accepting gift orders, an encrypted connection should count as a given. Pick a certificate from the SSL certificate page and confirm the installation with the SSL checker.
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Both are seasonal, but they answer to different calendars.
.blackfriday names a single shopping day at the end of November and the campaign week around it, whereas .christmas covers a season running through December along with gift and holiday content. A campaign squeezed into one day reads better on the first; a catalogue updated across weeks reads better on the second. The .blackfriday domain page has the details.
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