.shoes Domain: A Footwear Address That Names the Trade
The .shoes registry agreement was signed on 2 October 2013 and the zone entered the root on 12 December 2013. Binky Moon, LLC is the contracting registry operator today; the string was first delegated to Binky Galley, LLC and moved across in 2018 together with one hundred ninety-five other extensions. As measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 4,645 registrations, of which 3,750 appear in the zone file.
Manufacturers, boutique retailers, direct-to-consumer brands, repair workshops and collector communities all sit in this zone. No eligibility rule applies: you do not file a trade register extract, you do not show an industry credential, and nothing is verified at the point of sale. Try candidates on the .shoes domain search page, or line several up at once with bulk domain search.
Because the string is a dictionary word, the public interest section of the registry agreement forbids the operator from setting identity-based eligibility criteria and from shutting out lawful registrants whose activity represents a less common reading of the term. In practice a retail chain, a cobbler and a running-shoe review community stand on equal footing when they apply for a name.
.SHOES Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 12 December 2013
- Eligibility None; the agreement bars identity-based limits
- Zone size 4,645 names, 3,750 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .shoes domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.shoes 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
$32.90 /year -
Transfer
$64.99 /year -
Renewal
$69.99 /year -
Restore
$159.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
Included With Every .shoes 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.
.shoes Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .shoes 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 .shoes 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 .shoes 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 .shoes 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
.shoes Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.shoes Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .shoes domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.shoes Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .shoes Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. Any company or individual may register one. The registry agreement bars identity-based eligibility criteria, so the operator cannot ask you for an industry credential, a tax record or a membership number. That said, relevance still matters commercially: a visitor who reads the extension expects footwear, and unrelated content erodes trust quickly. Start with the .shoes search page to test your shortlist.
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Waiting is usually a poor plan. Of the 4,645 names measured on 13 August 2026, some 3,750 appear in the zone file, which means roughly three in four are actively pointed at something. Names in live use get renewed. A faster route is to build a second candidate by adding a city, a product family or a short verb to your brand, then test both lists together rather than sequentially.
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One names the product, the other names the channel. A .shoes address tells the visitor what you sell before the page loads, while .store signals that you sell, without committing to a category. Pick the first when a single product family defines you. Pick the second when your catalogue is broad or you expect to expand into other categories. The two zones sit with different registry operators.
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Remove the transfer lock, request the authorisation code from your current provider, then open the request at the gaining registrar. Retail calendars matter here: schedule the move away from launch weeks and seasonal peaks so a stalled transfer never lands during your busiest traffic. Begin on the domain transfer page and confirm the result through whois search.
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Choose something short that is spelled the way it sounds, because this address gets read aloud in shops and on calls. If your brand name is free, take it. If not, three routes work: add the product type, add a city or region, or use an established abbreviation of the brand. Avoid hyphens and digits, which raise typo rates and make the address harder to dictate.
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