.singles Domain: One Word Covering Three Different Uses
The .singles registry agreement is dated 27 August 2013 and the zone entered the root on 31 October 2013. Binky Moon, LLC holds the contract today; the string was originally delegated to Fern Madison, LLC and moved across in the 2018 portfolio transfer. Measured on 13 August 2026, the zone contains 3,888 registrations, of which 2,863 appear in the zone file.
What makes this zone unusual is that the word carries three distinct senses: unattached individuals, single-track music releases, and single-occupancy products or living spaces. In practice the zone is shared by dating platforms, event organisers, artist and label pages, and brands built around one-person households. No eligibility rule applies. Test candidates on the .singles domain search page.
Because the string carries all three senses at once, it does not tell a visitor what you do. The decision rule follows from that: let the second-level name supply the context. An artist or label name reads as music, a city or audience reads as dating, a category word reads as a product line. Choose a generic root with no context and your visitor only resolves the ambiguity after the page loads.
.SINGLES Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 31 October 2013
- Eligibility None; the agreement bars identity-based limits
- Zone size 3,888 names, 2,863 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .singles domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.singles 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
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$33.79 /year -
Renewal
$36.39 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.14
Included With Every .singles 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.
.singles Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .singles 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 .singles 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 .singles 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 $6.14 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 .singles 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
.singles Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.singles Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .singles domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.singles Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .singles Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No. The agreement sets no eligibility condition, and the word's three English senses open the zone to three different uses: platforms for unattached people, single-track music releases, and products or housing designed for one person. The registry favours none of them. The second-level name decides which reading applies, so start by testing your shortlist on the .singles search page.
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It can, because a campaign page built around a single release reads naturally here. Two conditions apply, though. First, the association weakens if your listeners do not read English. Second, if the address is meant to outlive one release, use the artist or label name rather than the track title; track names date within a year and carry no archive traffic once the campaign ends.
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Put the audience or the geography inside the name. Generic words in this zone are largely taken, whereas combinations built on a city, an age group, a shared interest or a profession still leave considerable room. Remember too that a platform handling personal data carries legal duties arising from the activity, not from the address. Try several ideas together with bulk domain search.
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On 13 August 2026 the zone held 3,888 registrations with 2,863 of them in the zone file. That places it among the smaller zones covered in this programme, which cuts two ways. Your odds of finding a short single-word root are better than in large thematic zones, but general recognition of the extension is limited and you may need to repeat the address once when saying it aloud.
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Yes. Release the transfer lock, request the authorisation code from your current provider, then file at the gaining one. For membership platforms the sensitive part is mail: export your MX records before you start, otherwise verification and password-reset messages stop silently in the middle of the move. Begin from the domain transfer page.
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