.tennis Domain: Addresses for Courts, Clubs and Coaches
The .tennis zone entered the root on 29 January 2015; its ICANN agreement is dated 4 December 2014 and the contracting party is Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital. Courts, clubs, coaches giving private lessons, tournament organisers and shops selling rackets and equipment all use it. Because the agreement treats the string as a dictionary term, the registry must run it inclusively, so no licence, federation membership or club document is requested.
The zone is small, and that reads as an opportunity rather than a drawback: measured on 14 August 2026 it holds 2,406 registrations, of which 1,899 appear in the zone file. Most registered names are genuinely live, yet plenty of single-word roots remain free. Combinations of city, club name or service are worth testing. To see several variants side by side, use the .tennis domain search page.
.TENNIS Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone entry 29 January 2015
- Eligibility None; no club or federation document is requested
- Agreement commitment As a dictionary term the zone must stay open to all lawful registrants
- Zone size 2,406 registrations, 1,899 live (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tennis domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.tennis 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
$57.50 /year -
Transfer
$59.79 /year -
Renewal
$64.39 /year -
Restore
$169.90 -
Late Renewal
$10.89
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.tennis Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .tennis 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 .tennis 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 .tennis 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 $10.89 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 .tennis 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
.tennis Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.tennis Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .tennis domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.tennis Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .tennis Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, it is open to everyone. The ICANN agreement treats the string as a dictionary term and bars the registry from imposing identity-based eligibility limits. An independent coach, a tournament organiser, a court operator or an equipment shop may register just as a club can. Federation membership, a licence or club statutes are never requested, so the choice of name depends entirely on your own plan.
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They are good, because the zone is small. Measured on 14 August 2026 it holds 2,406 registrations in total; for comparison, .today in the same family passes seven hundred thousand. Some single generic roots are taken, yet combinations built on city, district and club names leave a wide field. Test several ideas at once with bulk domain name search.
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Roughly eight names in ten are live. On the measurement date 1,899 of the 2,406 registrations appeared in the zone file, close to seventy-nine percent. That points to a low share of parked names held back for resale. The practical consequence: if the name you like is taken it is probably genuinely used, so building an alternative root beats waiting for an expiry.
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Putting the location into the root is the most practical route. For an address shared out loud, a pattern such as "riverside.tennis" stays short and carries the searched word. Where the club name is already known, prefer it; for a newly opened venue the district name does more work in search. If you plan a booking page, keep the spelling plain and avoid hyphens and digits.
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Yes, this extension carries no certificate exception. Validation runs against the domain name as it does across new gTLDs, and free or commercial certificates both work. If you will publish a booking form or collect contact details, install the certificate on day one, since browsers mark unencrypted connections with a visible warning. Compare the options on the SSL certificate page.
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