The .qpon Domain: A Short Address for Promotions
The .qpon domain entered the root zone on 9 January 2014 under an ICANN agreement signed on 14 November 2013, and its registry operator is DOTQPON LLC. of Santa Monica, California. The string is a phonetic contraction of the word "coupon". nTLDstats recorded 112,825 registrations on 13 August 2026, of which 68,409 appeared in the zone file.
Retailers running discount codes, campaign micro-sites for chain stores and loyalty programmes make up most of the registrant base. No eligibility test applies at registration; the registry sets only an age requirement of eighteen. Try your candidates in .qpon domain search, and put the plural form side by side on the .coupons page before you decide.
People spell the word coupon, not qpon. That makes the extension risky wherever you expect somebody to type the address from memory, and strong wherever the address is printed: a poster, a till receipt, a QR label, a message footer. The rule of thumb is simple. Choose it when the address will be shown rather than dictated. A name people already recognise removes most of the spelling risk.
.QPON Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator DOTQPON LLC. (Santa Monica, USA)
- Root zone entry 9 January 2014
- Eligibility None — the agreement forbids limiting a generic-string TLD to one entity
- Zone size 112,825 registrations, 68,409 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .qpon domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.qpon 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
$2.99 /year -
Transfer
$18.79 /year -
Renewal
$19.99 /year -
Restore
$99.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.81
Included With Every .qpon 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.
.qpon Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .qpon 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 .qpon 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 .qpon 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 $7.81 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 .qpon 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
.qpon Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.qpon Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .qpon domain
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.qpon Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .qpon Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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A .qpon domain suits businesses that want their discount messaging to live at its own address. The common pattern is straightforward: the shop keeps its main domain and moves seasonal codes and the coupon catalogue onto the shorter one. Retail chains print it on in-store posters, parcel inserts and till receipts, while loyalty schemes point member-only offer pages at it. Start with the .qpon search page.
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They are separate extensions under separate registry operators and separate contracts. The .qpon string is a shortened phonetic spelling whose four-letter stem saves room on printed material, while .coupons writes the word out in full and reads more clearly on screen. Holding a name in one gives you no claim in the other. To test both zones in a single pass, use bulk domain search.
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The registry's own IDN policy states that the extension supports internationalised domain names conforming to IDNA 2008. IANA's IDN Tables repository lists twenty published tables for this extension. Which of those language tables your registrar has switched on can still vary, so confirm the supported list before you order. Reserving an ASCII equivalent alongside the internationalised form remains a practical hedge against mail and browser quirks.
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A transfer means unlocking the name, obtaining the authorisation code and starting the request at the gaining registrar. Promotional addresses are frequently bought by an agency or a marketing team, so the step that usually stalls is not technical: it is finding whose account holds the record. Check that the address in the registration record still reaches you before you begin. Start at the domain transfer page.
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nTLDstats counted 112,825 registrations on 13 August 2026, with 68,409 present in the zone file. The gap says that two names in every five were registered and never published. In practice the short generic coupon words are largely taken, yet most of them are not attached to a live site. If your first choice is unavailable, testing a variant built around your brand name beats waiting for an expiry that may never come.
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