The .salon Domain: For Beauty and Grooming Businesses
The .salon domain entered the root zone on 12 November 2015, while its ICANN agreement is dated 11 December 2014, and the registry operator is Binky Moon, LLC. That eleven-month gap between contract and delegation is the widest among the extensions reviewed in this batch. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 5,581 registrations, 4,214 of them in the zone file.
Hairdressers, beauty centres, nail and skincare studios, barbers and appointment-booking software make up the register. No eligibility requirement applies, and neither a trade qualification nor a business licence is requested. Try candidates in .salon domain search, and compare the .hair page for a hair-focused brand.
The registry verifies no professional credential in this extension; the agreement expressly forbids identity-based eligibility limits. The address itself grants you no authority to trade. Hygiene approval, premises permits and vocational qualification requirements arise from the law of the country where you operate, and they apply in full whatever your address happens to be.
.SALON Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 12 November 2015
- Eligibility None; the registry verifies no professional credential
- Zone size 5,581 registrations, 4,214 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .salon domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.salon 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
$12.90 /year -
Transfer
$57.19 /year -
Renewal
$61.59 /year -
Late Renewal
$11.12
Included With Every .salon 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.
.salon Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .salon 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 .salon 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 .salon 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 $11.12 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 .salon 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
.salon Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.salon Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .salon domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.salon Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .salon Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The agreement keeps second-level names open to lawful registrants and forbids the registry from setting identity-based eligibility limits. No hairdressing certificate, chamber registration or premises licence is requested. Obligations attached to the activity itself still arise from local law and continue to apply. Try candidates on the .salon search page.
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Look at the range of services you offer. If cutting, colouring and care sit alongside skin, nails and make-up, the broader word describes the whole business in one term. If you run a brand, a product line or a training operation focused only on hair, .hair makes the sharper call. The two belong to different registry operators.
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Yes, the extension places no restriction on content or application type. You can host an appointment form, a payment flow and a customer portal. Because you handle personal data you will need a certified connection; browsers warn on forms served without one. Review the options on the SSL certificate page.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 5,581 registrations with 4,214 in the zone file, about seventy-six per cent. Because the zone is small, stems combined with a city name remain largely open. The rule that follows: add a district or neighbourhood, and you gain both availability and a sharper match in local search results.
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Lift the lock, request the authorisation code and open the request at the gaining registrar. In this trade the address often sits in the account of the agency that built the site, while the owner holds only a dashboard password, so move the contact record into your own name first. Run the process from the domain transfer page and verify with whois search.
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