The .flights Domain: An Address for Air Travel
.flights entered the root zone on 30 January 2014, with Binky Moon, LLC recorded by IANA as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 lists 2,894 registrations, 2,269 of which appear in the zone file. The zone is small but active: at 78%, most names have actually been pointed at a server.
The ending closes naturally on flight search tools, ticket agencies, transfer services and route guides. Because a small zone leaves short roots within reach, combinations with a city, a region or a route name are worth testing. Check what is open with a .flights domain search, and scan several route names in one pass through bulk domain name search.
Binky Moon, LLC publishes no eligibility condition for this ending, and no airline code, agency licence or insurance detail is requested at registration. Selling tickets and arranging travel are governed by their own rules, and those permissions follow the activity. For a traveller the implication is direct: a site sitting under .flights is not proof that the company behind it is a licensed agent. Publishing your licence number and cancellation terms on the site closes the same gap from the honest side.
.FLIGHTS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 30 January 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 2,894 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 2,269 names, about 78%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .flights domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.flights 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
$37.50 /year -
Transfer
$58.49 /year -
Renewal
$62.99 /year -
Restore
$154.90 -
Late Renewal
$10.39
Included With Every .flights 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.
.flights Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .flights 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 .flights 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 .flights 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 $10.39 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 .flights 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
.flights Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.flights Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .flights domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.flights Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .flights Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The registry asks for no agency licence or airline code at registration.
If you sell tickets, the permissions you need come from your own regulator and have nothing to do with the domain. Making that distinction visible on the page works in your favour: a licence number, liability cover and clear cancellation terms tell a visitor who they are buying from, which shortens the decision.
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It does. A root made of two city names lines up exactly with how people search.
A page aimed at one corridor competes in a narrow query instead of fighting the large search engines head on. The zone is small enough that roots of this kind can still be free. Keep the spelling easy: airport codes look compact but get muddled when read out over a phone.
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At 2,894 registrations it is one of the smaller zones in the group reviewed here.
Flight search is concentrated in a handful of large brands, so demand for generic names appears to have stayed limited. The 78% publication rate shows the zone is not dormant, though. For you a small zone reads as opportunity: short, memorable roots are still in play.
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Any page carrying a payment step and passenger details should not run without one.
Name, passport number and card data arrive on the same form, so a browser warning stops the purchase on the spot. After installation, confirm the chain and the expiry date through the SSL checker — a lapsed certificate produces exactly the same effect as having none.
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Yes. The move uses an authorisation code and the registry requires no extra paperwork.
On travel sites the thing to plan around is booking traffic: a short gap during the move can land on a half-finished payment. Schedule it for a quiet window and prepare the DNS records at the new provider beforehand, then start from the domain transfer page.
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