The .holiday Domain: For Getaways and for the Season
.holiday was recorded in the root zone on 19 December 2013; its ICANN registry agreement is dated 7 November 2013 and names Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 4,840 registrations, of which 3,787 appear in the zone file — roughly four names in five resolving to a server.
Holiday lets, tour operators, campsites, seasonal campaigns and event calendars all use the ending. The registry applies no eligibility condition and requests no documents. Try candidates through a .holiday domain search, and look at the accommodation side on the .homes page.
In British usage the word means a break away from home; in American usage it points mainly at the festive season and public holidays. The ending serves both, and the root decides which one a reader hears: a root built on accommodation or a destination reads as travel, while a root built on gifts or a season reads as the festive period. The decision rule is simple — choose the root for the usage your audience speaks, because visitors guess what you sell the moment they see the address, and a wrong guess sends them back.
.HOLIDAY Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- ICANN registry agreement 7 November 2013
- Root zone record 19 December 2013
- Registered names 4,840 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 3,787 names, about 78%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .holiday domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.holiday 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
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$64.99 /year -
Renewal
$69.99 /year -
Restore
$159.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
Included With Every .holiday 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.
.holiday Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .holiday 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 .holiday 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 .holiday 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 $11.12 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 .holiday 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
.holiday Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.holiday Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .holiday domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.holiday Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .holiday Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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It does. The address names what the guest is looking for and gives you a channel outside the platforms.
Keep an availability calendar, directions, cleaning arrangements and check-in times visible on your own page. Add the address to your platform listing too: repeat bookings often arrive here directly, and a commission-free channel grows steadily once guests know where to find it.
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If the campaign runs every year, yes — but leave the year out of the name.
Addresses containing a year lose their value in January and break the links printed on last season's material. Reusing one address each season preserves whatever search presence it has built and cuts the administration. When a campaign closes, redirect the address rather than dropping it.
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Of 4,840 registrations, 3,787 appear in the zone file — about 78%.
A small zone with more than three names in four in use. Roots built on a destination name are still available simply because the total number of registrations is low. To test several destination variants at once, use the bulk domain name search.
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That payment and form steps are served over an unbroken encrypted connection.
Holiday searches happen in a crowded, competitive window; a guest who meets a browser warning switches tabs and does not come back. Put the certificate's expiry in your calendar, and after each renewal confirm how it is served from the SSL checker page.
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Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra documents.
Timing decides everything here: schedule the move outside the booking season, in the months when demand drops. If your reservation system depends on the domain, list the records it uses beforehand, then start from the domain transfer page.
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