.taxi Domain: A Short Address for Carrying Passengers
The .taxi zone entered the root on 30 April 2015, the latest delegation among the Binky Moon extensions in this group; its ICANN agreement is dated 19 March 2015. Taxi ranks, fleet operators, airport transfer companies and dispatch applications all publish in this zone.
A city name earns its place here more than almost anywhere else, because taxi work is local by nature. The operator asks for no commercial transport licence, plate number or trade registration; the agreement forbids identity-based limits, so names go first come, first served. Try city and brand combinations on the .taxi domain search page.
.TAXI Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC
- Root zone entry 30 April 2015
- Eligibility None; no transport licence or plate number requested
- Zone size 9,099 registrations, 6,771 published (13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .taxi domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.taxi 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
$12.90 /year -
Transfer
$62.39 /year -
Renewal
$67.19 /year -
Restore
$164.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
Included With Every .taxi 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.
.taxi Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .taxi 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 .taxi 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 .taxi 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 .taxi 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
.taxi Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.taxi Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .taxi domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.taxi Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .taxi Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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Yes. The operator asks for no licence, plate number or trade registration, and the agreement expressly forbids identity-based eligibility criteria. There is an important distinction, though: the domain grants you no authority to carry passengers. Passenger transport is governed by your national and municipal rules; the address only makes your service findable, while permission comes from the relevant authority.
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It does, for a simple reason: nobody calls a taxi from another city. A visitor almost always types a city or district name into the search box, so carrying that word in your address makes it guessable. Airport and terminal names work strongly too. To test several city variants in one pass, use bulk domain name search.
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Measured on 13 August 2026 the zone holds 9,099 registrations, of which 6,771 appear in the zone file, roughly seventy-four percent. That describes a small zone that is genuinely used. Names of major cities may largely be gone, yet combinations with districts, boroughs and airports still leave a wide field open.
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If the application collects location and telephone numbers, those are personal data and an encrypted connection becomes mandatory; browsers already refuse location permission on insecure pages. Beyond that, a short and memorable address makes a real difference on vehicle livery and when read aloud over the phone. Plan certificate installation from the SSL certificate page.
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Yes, the standard gTLD transfer applies: lift the lock, obtain the authorisation code, open the request with the gaining provider. Taxi demand peaks at night and at weekends, so moving on a weekday morning keeps any interruption out of sight. Run the process from the domain transfer page and re-check the registration record once it completes.
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