The .farm Domain: Selling Straight From the Land
.farm was recorded in the root zone on 19 December 2013 and is operated by Binky Moon, LLC. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 34,159 registrations in the zone, of which 27,178 appear in the zone file. A publication rate near 80% says most registered names are genuinely in use.
Farms selling direct to the public, farm shops, agritourism businesses and livestock operations all read correctly on this address. The rule to take away: put the name of the farm in the label rather than the name of a crop — the range changes with the season while the farm does not. Check candidates in a .farm domain search.
No production method is examined when a domain is registered; whether you farm organically, naturally or under any certification is not checked by the registry at all. Those claims are validated by independent certification bodies. Three pieces of information on the page settle it: the name of the certifying body, the certificate number and its validity date. Written without them, an organic claim stays unverifiable no matter what the address says.
.FARM Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 34,159 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 27,178 names, about 80%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .farm domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.farm 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
$14.90 /year -
Transfer
$38.99 /year -
Renewal
$41.99 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .farm 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.
.farm Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .farm 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 .farm 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 .farm 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 $6.73 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 .farm 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
.farm Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.farm Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .farm domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.farm Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .farm Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry asks for no producer registration or agricultural record.
Binky Moon, LLC publishes no eligibility condition for this ending and names go first come, first served. The consequence is that the address does not show a real farm stands behind it. Publishing your holding address, your growing area and a contact number on the page tells a visitor far more than the domain can.
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By naming the certifying body, the certificate number and the validity date.
Organic claims are audited by independent certification bodies, and the domain plays no part in it. Give those three together and a buyer can verify the claim without contacting you. Pages offering only adjectives such as natural or additive-free are not weighed on the same scale as producers who have passed an inspection.
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The farm name lasts longer; a crop name ages with the season.
Tomatoes lead one year and walnuts the next, and an address built on a crop cannot absorb that change. A label carrying the farm or the district keeps its meaning as the range shifts. Keep product pages in subdirectories, which gives flexibility and lets each one surface separately in search.
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Treat it as necessary: an order form carries a name, an address and a phone number.
Moving that unencrypted is not defensible, and browsers now mark such pages as unsafe. Certificates are available from the SSL certificate page. The rule does not change if you take no payment online and only collect order details.
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The 11 August 2026 reading counts 34,159 registrations with 27,178 published.
The zone is upper-mid in size, so single-word generic terms have gone. Combinations built on a farm name, a village or a growing region are, however, usually still free. Try several candidates at once in a bulk domain name search.
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It does — the ending carries both the production and the place.
For farms offering accommodation, tours and workshop programmes, the address tells a visitor in one line what kind of place this is. To host a site with a booking calendar and a photo gallery, look at the hosting options. Any permit obligation for the accommodation itself follows from your own jurisdiction.
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