The .luxury Domain: The Whole Word for the Upper Segment
.luxury entered the root zone on 9 January 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 17 October 2013, the earliest signature in this group, with Los Angeles based Luxury Partners LLC as the contracting party. The registry describes the ending as a place online connecting upper-segment brands and service providers with consumers oriented towards that market. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 5,268 registrations, of which 4,156 sit in the zone file.
Jewellery and watch houses, private travel planners, art galleries, upper-segment property portfolios, concierge and chauffeur services and boutique hotel groups all use the zone. The agreement defines no eligibility condition. Try candidates through a .luxury domain search, and compare the shorter form on the .luxe page.
The operator behind this ending carries only this one extension in its portfolio. Most zones examined across this programme belong to large groups running dozens or hundreds of endings together; here the picture differs. Two practical consequences follow. First, announcements, policy and support all come from one place, and decisions taken across a group do not reach this zone by default. Second, when you compare options, do not read similar-looking endings as members of one family: the shorter form covering the same theme belongs to an entirely different organisation, and their rule sets run independently of each other.
.LUXURY Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Luxury Partners LLC (Los Angeles)
- ICANN registry agreement 17 October 2013
- Root zone record 9 January 2014
- Registered domains 5,268 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 4,156 names, about 79%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .luxury domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.luxury 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
$32.50 /year -
Transfer
$39.00 /year -
Renewal
$42.90 /year -
Restore
$129.90 -
Late Renewal
$8.58
Included With Every .luxury 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.
.luxury Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .luxury 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 .luxury 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 .luxury 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 $8.58 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 .luxury 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
.luxury Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.luxury Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .luxury domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.luxury Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .luxury Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The agreement defines no eligibility condition.
The operator neither examines your positioning at application nor asks for documents. The ending does set an expectation in the visitor's mind, though, and a page without product photography, material detail, provenance and after-sales terms fails to meet it. An extension promises positioning; it does not manufacture it.
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They belong to different operators, and their rule sets run independently.
The long form carries the whole word, so what it means reads directly in search results; the short form keeps the address compact. The short form's operator also takes a separate undertaking about the name matching its use. Compare through the .luxe page.
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Yes. With 5,268 registrations, only a limited set of single-word stems has gone.
Combinations of brand, city and product category remain largely open. That 4,156 names sit in the zone file does show a zone filled with working sites, so waiting on a taken name is unproductive. Test the patterns through the bulk domain name search.
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Buyers leave personal data at the payment and appointment steps and look for trust signals.
Bespoke order forms, measurements and delivery addresses are sensitive information, and a browser warning at that step breaks the intention to buy. The operator enforces no mandatory HTTPS regime in this zone, so the choice is yours. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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Yes. The zone follows the standard gTLD transfer rules.
Lift the lock, obtain the authorisation code and open the request at the receiving provider. With upper-segment brands the domain is frequently managed through a trademark protection agency; before you start, check who appears as registrant through whois search. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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