.mom Domain: An English-Rooted Ending Addressed to Parents
.mom entered the root zone on 13 August 2015 under an ICANN registry agreement dated 16 April 2015, and the contracting party is XYZ.COM LLC of Las Vegas. The registry positions the extension for anyone wanting to reach parents and family members of every kind. As of 12 August 2026 the zone holds 134,789 registrations, of which 76,990 appear in the zone file.
Mother-led brands, parenting publications, childcare and child development services, toy and baby product sellers, family communities and mentoring programmes all register here. The operator's policy defines no eligibility restriction and no prerequisite of any sort. Try candidates on the .mom domain search screen, and see the .motorcycles page for another ending from the same registry.
The zone holds 134,789 registrations but only 76,990 of them appear in the zone file. In other words, two in every five registered names have never gone live. That cuts both ways: short generic roots should be treated as gone, yet the specific name you want may not actually be in use. The right order of work is to read the registration record first — expiry date and registrar — and only then decide whether an approach to acquire it makes sense. Skipping that step sends people hunting for alternatives to a name nobody is using.
.MOM Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator XYZ.COM LLC (United States)
- Root zone entry 13 August 2015
- Eligibility None; the policy sets no prerequisite
- Zone size 134,789 registrations, 76,990 published (12 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .mom domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.mom 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
$32.52 /year -
Renewal
$35.77 /year -
Restore
$149.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.15
Included With Every .mom 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.
.mom Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .mom 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 .mom 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 .mom 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 $7.15 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 .mom 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
.mom Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.mom Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .mom domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.mom Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .mom Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The operator's Domain Name Policies state plainly that, unless a specific extension's policy says otherwise, there are no eligibility restrictions or prerequisites limiting which applicants may apply. The word describes the audience, not the registrant. Check a name's status on the .mom search page.
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Check first whether it is actually in use. Roughly two in five registered names in this zone have never gone live. Read the registration record for the expiry date and the registrar; if the name is parked, an approach to acquire it may be worthwhile. Run the lookup from the whois search page, and test alternatives together on the bulk search screen.
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Only with a local-language root in front of it. The word is English and will not be self-explanatory to a visitor who does not read English, so the pairing produces a clearer address than leaving the ending to stand alone. For brands operating in two languages this ending works better as a second address for English content or an export page. Adding it beside your main address, rather than replacing it, is the low-risk route.
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The operator's policy sets a minimum of one character per label and a maximum of 63; a name may not begin or end with a hyphen. The same policy accepts internationalised domain names, limited to the language scripts the registry publishes on its own site. Most very short names sit in a premium tier, which your registrar reports during the availability check.
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Yes, the extension follows gTLD transfer rules. Obtain the authorisation code, lift the transfer lock and start the request at the gaining registrar; the first 60 days after registration and the period following a registrant change may be locked. In family projects the name often sits in a personal account, so tidy the registrant details first if the team has grown. Run it from the domain transfer page.
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The domain grants you no authority; the obligation arises from the data you collect. On forms that gather parent or child information, say plainly what is collected and why, remove fields you do not need and define a retention period. Forms must run over HTTPS — you can compare certificate options on the SSL certificate page.
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