The .florist Domain: A Local Address for Flower Shops
.florist was recorded in the root zone on 19 December 2013, which places it in the first wave of delegations; the IANA entry shows the zone was originally delegated to Half Cypress, LLC, with Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party today. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 reports 2,235 registrations, of which 1,705 appear in the zone file.
Because the ending names the trade itself, it maps neatly onto local search: placed after a district, town or city name, the address explains itself and fits a shop window in one line. To compare the same root against the ending that names the product, see the .flowers page; to test what is open, run a .florist domain search.
.FLORIST Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Original delegation Half Cypress, LLC (IANA record)
- Registered names 2,235 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 1,705 names, about 76%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .florist domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.florist 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
$12.90 /year -
Transfer
$32.49 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.29
Included With Every .florist 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.
.florist Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .florist 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 .florist 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 .florist 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 .florist 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
.florist Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.florist Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .florist domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.florist Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .florist Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Someone searching locally already types the district, so the address answers that intent directly.
With 2,235 registrations the zone is small, which leaves most neighbourhood and town names untouched. The result reads on a shop window, a van and a business card in one line. To try several district names at once, bulk domain name search lists them in a single pass.
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Pick .florist when you sell the service and .flowers when you present the product.
The first names the trade and is unambiguous for a local shop; the second names what is being sold and suits growers and garden content better. The two also sit with different registries — .florist with Binky Moon, LLC and .flowers with XYZ.COM LLC — so their rules differ as well.
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Put the delivery window, the area you cover and the cut-off time on the first screen.
Ordering flowers is a time-critical purchase, and a visitor looks for those three facts before touching a menu. Separating recipient from sender clearly on the order form also cuts down on returns. Keep the page light: on a mobile connection, a slow first load sends the order to a competitor.
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Of 2,235 registrations, 1,705 appear in the zone file — around 76%.
For a zone this size that rate is high and suggests most names belong to real shops. So if the name you wanted is taken, a working business is probably behind it, and trying a second district or neighbourhood name is the quickest route forward.
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Yes. The process runs on an authorisation code and asks for no extra documents.
In small shops the address often stays in the account of whoever built the first site, and years later that person is hard to reach. Change the contact email on the record to your own and lift the transfer lock before you begin. Then start from the domain transfer page.
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