.tax Domain: A Direct Address for Tax Practice
The .tax zone entered the root on 17 April 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 20 March 2014 and the contracting party is Binky Moon, LLC. Accountants, tax advisory practices, return preparation software and corporate tax teams all publish in this zone.
Because the extension states its promise so plainly, the root can stay short: a practice name or a field of specialism usually reads well enough on its own. When choosing, keep local regulation in mind; the use of professional titles in tax work is governed country by country, and an address should not imply a title you do not hold. Try candidates on the .tax domain search page.
The extension is named after a regulated profession, but its agreement does not verify one. The public interest commitments cover compliance with applicable law, consumer protection and reasonable security measures for sensitive financial data; the clause that requires a declaration of authorisations and licences is absent from this agreement. Its sibling .surgery, signed the same day under the same operator, does carry that clause. Two extensions that look alike therefore sit under different regimes, and the domain confers no professional standing on you.
.TAX Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 17 April 2014
- Eligibility None; not even a licence declaration is taken
- Contract commitment Proportionate security measures for sensitive financial data
- Zone size 22,257 registrations, 17,291 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tax domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
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.tax 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
$12.99 /year -
Transfer
$67.59 /year -
Renewal
$72.79 /year -
Restore
$169.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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.tax Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .tax 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 .tax 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 .tax 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 .tax 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
.tax Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.tax Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tax domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.tax Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .tax Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Yes. The agreement sets no identity-based limit and the operator asks for no professional credential; this extension does not even carry a licence declaration clause. What you offer on the page, however, remains subject to the law of your country. The address therefore grants nobody advisory authority; your licence does that, while the domain only makes you findable.
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Because these commitments are written into each agreement extension by extension. The two were signed on the same day under the same operator, yet the text of .surgery contains the licence declaration and the duty to consult national supervisory authorities, while the text of .tax does not. The lesson is plain: bearing the name of a regulated sector does not mean the contract carries sector-specific commitments.
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The agreement includes a commitment requiring registrants who collect sensitive financial data to apply reasonable security measures proportionate to the service offered. In practice that means an encrypted connection, a limited retention period and access logging. If there is a document upload area, restrict file type and size. Plan certificate installation from the SSL certificate page.
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Measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 22,257 registrations, of which 17,291 appear in the zone file, roughly seventy-eight percent. That describes a mid-sized zone in genuine use. Single-word generic roots are taken, while practice name, specialism and city combinations remain broad. Test your shortlist in one pass with bulk domain name search.
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It does, and in this zone more than usual. Tax work runs on a calendar built around filing deadlines, so scheduling a move close to one can create a short window in which no operation on the name is possible. Pick a quiet week, lift the lock, obtain the authorisation code and run the process from the domain transfer page.
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