.taipei Domain: An Open City Extension Run by the City Hall
The registry operator for .taipei is Taipei City Government; the ICANN agreement is dated 10 July 2014 and the zone entered the root on 25 September 2014. Net Chinese Co., Ltd. is the operator authorised to run registration services and promotion, while the IANA technical contact is a separate organisation altogether.
Although the extension carries the name of Taiwan's capital, it asks nobody for a link to the city today. The registry's own question and answer page gives 9 September 2015 as the start of general availability and states that anyone interested in the extension has been able to apply since then. Check the status of a name on the .taipei domain search page.
Registrar documentation frequently claims a requirement of bona fide presence in the Taipei metropolitan area; the registry's own statement does not support it. The city connection was tested during the Taipei Enterprise Sunrise phase in 2015, when an applicant had to be registered in Taipei or New Taipei and produce trademark evidence. Once general availability opened, that condition fell away and registration became first come, first served.
.TAIPEI Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Taipei City Government
- Authorised operator Net Chinese Co., Ltd.
- Root zone entry 25 September 2014
- General availability 9 September 2015; no eligibility condition since
- Zone size 6,097 registrations, 4,137 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement There are no requirements for buying .taipei domain registration
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.taipei 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
$26.90 / years -
Transfer
$26.90 / years -
Renewal
$29.59 / years -
Restore
$194.90 -
Late Renewal
$5.92
Included With Every .taipei 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.
.taipei Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.taipei Domain Registration
- Document Requirement There are no requirements for buying .taipei domain registration
- Character Length 3 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.taipei Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .taipei Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Yes, you can. The registry's own question and answer page states plainly that anyone interested in the extension has been able to apply since general availability opened. No registration, address or representative in the city is required. This matters, because a good deal of registrar documentation still repeats a launch-period condition as though it were today's rule; rely on the information published by the registry itself.
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Yes. The registry states that names may consist of Simplified or Traditional Chinese characters, letters A to Z, digits and hyphens, and that an internationalised name needs at least one Unicode character. The registry also notes that a name made of a single Chinese character can be registered. Such an address is unusually memorable for visitors across the Greater China region.
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The registry requires names of at least three and at most sixty-three characters; for non-ASCII labels that measure applies to the punycode form. A name cannot begin or end with a hyphen, and consecutive hyphens in the third and fourth positions are reserved for the pattern used by internationalised name conversion. Short Chinese names behave more flexibly within these limits than you might expect.
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Measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 6,097 registrations with 4,137 in the zone file, about sixty-eight percent. That is the lowest publication rate in this group, so a third of the names never went live. The decision rule: if your audience is the Taiwanese market, a city name is a strong local signal; if not, visitors will read the address as a geographic claim and may form the wrong expectation. Sweep brand and city combinations in one pass with bulk domain name search.
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The registry publishes the lifecycle in detail: a one hundred and twenty hour add grace period after registration, then an auto-renew grace period, a thirty day redemption period and a five day pending delete stage. In general availability a name may be registered for one to ten years. Put the renewal date in your calendar and verify your registration record periodically with whois search.
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