The .market Domain: Naming the Place Where Trade Happens
.market entered the root zone on 22 May 2014 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 6 March 2014, and the contracting party today is Dog Beach, LLC. The word covers both the physical place where trading happens and the segment a product is sold into. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 26,876 registrations, of which 18,903 sit in the zone file.
Neighbourhood grocers, online marketplaces, producer direct-sale sites, street market communities, supply platforms and niche retailers all use the zone. No eligibility condition applies and no document is requested at registration. Try candidates through a .market domain search, and compare the plural on the .markets page.
The three extensions built on this stem look like a single family, yet they answer to two separate legal entities and carry three different sets of commitments. This one's agreement holds both the compliance provisions and the open registration undertaking. The plural belongs to the same contracting party but carries no open registration undertaking; the third, naming the activity, belongs to another company altogether and lacks the compliance provisions. The practical consequence: never merge the three into one sentence, and do not assume one's rules when registering another, because registration, renewal and policy all run independently.
.MARKET Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Inc.
- ICANN registry agreement 6 March 2014
- Root zone record 22 May 2014
- Registered domains 26,876 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 18,903 names, about 70%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .market domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.market 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
$39.99 /year -
Transfer
$41.59 /year -
Renewal
$44.79 /year -
Restore
$144.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.98
Included With Every .market 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.
.market Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .market 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 .market 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 .market 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 $7.98 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 .market 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
.market Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.market Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .market domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.market Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .market Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Yes. The word is not confined to a bricks-and-mortar store.
Because the agreement treats the string as a dictionary term and carries an open registration undertaking, the operator cannot draw a line based on identity. Online marketplaces, producer direct-sale sites and supply platforms use the ending routinely. What visitors expect is the chance to buy; if your page shows no products or prices, the ending makes a promise you do not keep.
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No. Even sharing a contracting party, their commitment sets differ.
This ending's agreement holds both the compliance provisions and the open registration undertaking; the plural carries no such undertaking. In practice neither asks for documents, but you need to read their rules separately rather than by analogy. Compare through the .markets page.
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Product regulation runs independently of the domain and follows the selling.
The agreement requires registrars to remind registrants of their duty to comply with applicable law, consumer protection included. In food retail, ingredients, allergens, storage conditions and origin are compulsory almost everywhere, and showing them on the product page satisfies the legal expectation while reducing returns.
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Yes. Of 26,876 registrations, 18,903 appear in the zone file.
Generic single-word stems have gone, yet combinations of a product category with a neighbourhood or city keep opening up. If your candidate is taken, waiting for it to lapse is unproductive. Run your shortlist in one pass through the bulk domain name search.
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Yes. Every step collecting card or address details must be encrypted.
Payment providers will not operate on an insecure page, and the browser raises a warning at the basket step; together they stop the sale outright. The operator enforces no mandatory HTTPS regime in this zone, so the choice is formally yours. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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