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WHAT IS A .STUDIO DOMAIN

.studio Domain: An Address for Places Where Work Is Made

The .studio registry agreement dates from 11 February 2015 and the zone entered the root on 25 June 2015. The contracting party is Dog Beach, LLC. That detail matters more than it looks: Binky Moon, LLC and Identity Digital Limited sit under the same corporate roof but are separate legal entities, so extensions you assume are siblings often answer to different contracts.

The word belongs to no single trade. Recording studios, design and advertising agencies, yoga and dance spaces, photographers, architecture practices and broadcast channels all reach for it. The extension does not draw the line; the root does. Add a city, a discipline or your brand so a visitor knows what you make before the page loads. Try candidates on the .studio domain search page.

The operator cannot screen you by profession

The public interest section of the agreement mandates open registration: because the string is a dictionary term, the operator is barred from imposing identity-based eligibility criteria. The same clause goes further and requires that registrants tied to a minority usage of the word are not disenfranchised. A ceramics workshop has the same claim as a record label, and nobody is asked to produce a studio licence.

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.STUDIO Domain at a Glance

  • Registry operator Dog Beach, LLC
  • Root zone entry 25 June 2015
  • Eligibility None; the agreement forbids identity-based limits
  • Zone size 239,306 registrations, 197,120 published (13 August 2026)
  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .studio domain
  • Character Length 1 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 10 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers

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.studio 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.

  • Transfer

    $40.29 /year
  • Renewal

    $43.39 /year
  • Restore

    $129.90
  • Late Renewal

    $5.85

Included With Every .studio Domain

  • 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.

  • Domain lock

    While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.

  • Domain forwarding

    Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.

  • Free WHOIS privacy

    Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.

.studio Domain Lifecycle

Active registration term 1 - 10 years You choose it at registration
Renewal window 20 days After expiry, with a late renewal fee
Redemption period 30 days After deletion, with a restore fee
Last day to act Day 50 After this day there is no way back

What happens day by day after it expires

Day 0 is the domain's expiry date

In short: your .studio 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.

What happens day by day after it expires Lifecycle diagram for .studio, left to right: the name starts out available; once registered, the site and e-mail work; day 0 is the expiry date and the domain goes on Client Hold; for the first 20 days renewal at the normal price stays open; on day 20 the registration is deleted and a 30-day redemption period begins; on day 50 redemption closes and a 5-day pending delete window starts; on day 55 the name is open to anyone again. The site and e-mail stay down from day 0 through day 55. Renewal possible Renewal possible (late fee) Restore possible (for a fee) Nothing works Open to anyone Available Registered 1 - 10 years Renewal Window 20 days Redemption Period 30 days Pending delete 5 days Open to anyone EXPIRED Day 0 Expiry date Day 20 Domain deleted Day 50 Restore closes Day 55 Name released Website and e-mail work Website and e-mail are down — Client Hold
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Domain Is Available (Available)

Open-ended

A .studio 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)

1 - 10 years

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)

Day 0 – 20

On its expiry date your .studio 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 $5.85 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.

Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)

Day 20 – 50

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)

Day 50 – 55

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)

After day 55

On day 55 the name .studio 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

.studio Domain Specifications and Registration Rules

Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.

.studio Domain Registration

  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .studio domain
  • Character Length 1 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 10 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers

.studio Domain Support

  • IDN Support Yes
  • Transfer Support Yes
  • Late Renewal Support Yes

Frequently Asked Questions About .studio Domains

The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.

  • No paperwork is required at any point. The operator's ICANN agreement commits it to keeping registration open to every lawful applicant and expressly forbids identity-based eligibility criteria. A freelance photographer and a ten-person design team therefore apply on identical terms. No business registration, chamber membership or professional certificate is requested; you are simply expected to supply accurate contact details.

  • Yes. The contract separately undertakes not to privilege the most common reading of the word and not to disenfranchise holders tied to a minority usage. In practice yoga spaces, ceramics workshops, architecture practices, pilates rooms and broadcast channels all sit side by side in this zone. The decision rule is simple: if your root explains the work, the extension carries it; if it does not, the problem is the word you chose.

  • As measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 239,306 registrations, of which 197,120 appear in the zone file. A publication rate above eighty-two percent means most registered names are genuinely in use. Single-word generic roots are largely gone, while brand-plus-city and discipline-plus-city patterns remain wide open. Test several variants at once through bulk domain name search.

  • Yes, the transfer follows ordinary gTLD rules: release the transfer lock, obtain the authorisation code, then file the request with the gaining provider. Studio calendars usually revolve around shoot or session days, so keep the move well clear of a heavy production week. Begin from the domain transfer page and confirm the outcome with whois search.

  • Both answers are partly right. The IANA root zone record names Dog Beach, LLC as the contracting party; that company operates under the Identity Digital Inc. umbrella, and technical operations run from there. The distinction is not cosmetic: Binky Moon, LLC under the same roof is a separate legal entity, so two extensions in the family can carry different contract text and different commitments.

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