.wedding Domain: An Address for the Wedding Industry
The .wedding extension entered the root zone on 10 July 2014; its ICANN agreement is dated 24 April 2014 and the contracting party today is Registry Services, LLC. Planners, venues, photographers, stationery designers and couples building their own announcement pages all take names here. On 14 August 2026 the zone held 22,853 registrations.
There is no eligibility test, but the public interest section of the agreement gives the operator concrete duties: publish acceptable use and naming rules, make them binding on registrants through registrars, run a flagging channel open to the public and suspend names that break them. Try roots on the .wedding domain search page.
Couples registering a name for their own wedding page is a common use, and the trouble is that the name is usually planned for a single season. A domain is not deleted the moment it expires; it passes through renewal and redemption stages first, during which the address can stop working without becoming available to anyone else. The decision rule: if the address goes on a printed invitation, plan the term to cover the period after the event and leave auto-renewal on. Photo galleries get visited for years.
.WEDDING Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Registry Services, LLC
- Root zone entry 10 July 2014
- Registry agreement 24 April 2014
- Contractual duties Use rules, public flagging channel, suspension
- Zone size 22,853 registrations (14 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .wedding domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.wedding 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
$32.49 /year -
Transfer
$32.49 /year -
Renewal
$34.99 /year -
Restore
$134.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.81
Included With Every .wedding 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.
.wedding Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .wedding 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 .wedding 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 .wedding 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 $7.81 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 .wedding 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
.wedding Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.wedding Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .wedding domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.wedding Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .wedding Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No, there is no eligibility test or document requirement at registration.
The duties in the agreement fall on the registry operator rather than the registrant: publish usage rules, run a flagging channel and suspend names that break them. A couple building their own page and a full-service planner can hold names in the same zone. In practice the only thing that changes is what the address tells a visitor.
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Dropping it the moment the event ends is usually the wrong move.
An address printed on invitations, gift lists and photo shares keeps getting clicked for years, and deleting the name breaks every one of those links. Plan the term to run past the event and keep auto-renewal on. If you later decide to release it, move the gallery to another address and set up a redirect first — that keeps the old links alive.
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Yes, because the ending states the service inside the address itself.
A studio name followed by this extension is understood at a glance in search results or on a business card. With 22,853 registrations the zone is mid-sized, so your studio name may well still be free. Adding a city name is another common approach and helps in local search. Try the combinations together with bulk domain search.
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Yes, every domain you register can carry an email service.
All it takes is pointing the domain's MX records at your email provider. For a wedding this is genuinely practical: replies from guests collect in one mailbox and you never have to hand out a personal address. If you also need web space for the same domain, look through our hosting plans.
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The WHOIS server carrying the extension's own name runs on port 43 and answers.
A check on 14 August 2026 returned the registration date, the status codes and the sponsoring registrar. When you want to know whether a name has genuinely been released, reading those status codes gives a far more precise answer than the taken or available label on a search screen. Run the query from our whois search page.
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