The .makeup Domain: An Ending for Cosmetics and Artistry
.makeup entered the root zone on 23 December 2015, the latest opening in this group, under an ICANN registry agreement dated 15 January 2015, with XYZ.COM LLC as the contracting party today. The registry describes the ending as made for cosmetics companies, professionals, creators and enthusiasts. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 168,654 registrations, of which 111,574 sit in the zone file.
Makeup artists, beauty salons, cosmetics brands, training academies, product comparison publications, video creators and studio hire teams all use the zone. No eligibility condition applies and no professional certificate is requested. Try candidates through a .makeup domain search, and compare the .beauty page.
The operator here verifies no professional qualification and no product approval, and the agreement defines no eligibility condition. Selling cosmetics, however, is governed by its own rules almost everywhere: ingredient lists, batch numbers, shelf life, a named responsible person and notification duties all arise from the act of selling, and a domain substitutes for none of them. If you teach practical classes, hygiene and premises rules work the same way. Publishing your responsible person, your product documentation and your returns terms openly on the page satisfies the legal expectation and hands visitors the information they look for first.
.MAKEUP Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation XYZ.COM LLC
- ICANN registry agreement 15 January 2015
- Root zone record 23 December 2015
- Registered domains 168,654 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 111,574 names, about 66%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .makeup domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.makeup 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
$1.99 /year -
Transfer
$15.69 /year -
Renewal
$16.89 /year -
Restore
$119.90
Included With Every .makeup 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.
.makeup Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .makeup 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 .makeup 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 .makeup 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 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 .makeup 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
.makeup Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.makeup Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .makeup domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.makeup Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .makeup Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Yes. The operator requests no professional certificate.
The zone defines no eligibility condition, so creators, shops and enthusiasts register on the same terms. If you provide hands-on services, though, the permissions you need arise from your own sector rules; showing your certificates and premises documents on the page builds trust and helps you stand out in search results.
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Product regulation operates independently of the domain and follows the selling.
Ingredient lists, batch numbers, shelf life and a named responsible person are compulsory in most countries, and showing them on the product page meets the legal expectation. Returns terms and allergy warnings also sit among the fields buyers examine most closely before deciding.
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Yes. Of 168,654 registrations, 111,574 are published and the rest are held.
Single-word stems have largely gone, but combinations of a brand, a city and a service keep opening up. Run your shortlist in one pass through the bulk domain name search; when one pattern is taken, the same list shows you its alternatives.
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Yes. Any form collecting a name, a phone number or skin details must be encrypted.
In beauty services, booking forms can carry health-related information, which makes the data sensitive. A browser warning at the booking step converts straight into abandonment. The operator enforces no mandatory HTTPS regime in this zone. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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No. Lift the lock, obtain the authorisation code and open the request at the new provider.
In this field the domain is frequently registered to the agency running the salon's social accounts, and the access problem appears when you part ways. Before you start, confirm that the registrant is you through whois search. Run the process from the domain transfer page.
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