Skip to content

New generic extensionSince 2014

.tax domain registration

An extension named after tax itself: for an accountant or tax adviser who wants visitors to know from the address that here is someone who understands returns and accounts.

Score card

.tax in six cells

Our score out of five, as we see it when we help a customer choose.

Trust
3 out of 5
Easy to remember
4 out of 5
Global reach
1 out of 5
Price stability
2 out of 5
Short names available
5 out of 5
Local meaning
1 out of 5

Overview

What is .tax

Tax is the word itself, and it’s a short extension that names one field: taxes, returns, accounting and everything to do with working out what people and companies owe. .tax entered the internet’s root in 2014 as a new generic extension; it is run by Binky Moon, LLC and supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing.

It suits accountants, tax advisory offices and those who prepare returns for others, and fits a program that calculates tax or organizes invoices. Visitors read it as a statement of a tax service, so it suits those who actually offer that service, and misleads if a site that doesn’t offer it holds it.

We have a first-year offer, and renewal after it costs much more, so count the cost of the following years before choosing it. Many people know it less well than .com, so register your office’s name in both if you can, and put your city’s name in it if your customers are in Kuwait.

Type
New generic extension (new gTLD)
In the root since
April 17, 2014
Name’s origin
tax
Responsible body
Binky Moon, LLC
Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
DNSSEC
Supported
Names in Arabic
Supported (IDN)

Who it suits

For your field: is .tax the best fit?

Every field has an extension that says something about it. Here is what .tax says in each, and which extension completes it.

  • An accounting and tax office

    Excellent · The first choice

    It states your service in a short word, and makes the office’s address easy to say on the phone and in ads.

    Register it with.tax.com

  • An independent tax adviser

    Good · A good fit

    Your name with .tax presents your work, and .pro completes it as a general professional address in your name.

    Register it with.tax.pro

  • Accounting for clients in Kuwait

    Good · A good fit with .com

    Your city’s name before .tax tells your customer you’re close by, and .com serves those who type your office’s name out of habit; register both.

    Register it with.com.tax

  • Accounting software or an app

    Good · A good fit

    For a tool that calculates tax or organizes invoices, .tax states the purpose and .app says it’s an app.

    Register it with.tax.app

  • A general finance blog

    Consider another · Consider .blog

    If tax is a small part of what you write, .tax confines your site to one topic.

    Register it with.blog.com

  • A store or trading company

    Consider another · Consider .com

    The word tax on a store raises a question it has no answer to; choose an extension that names your trade.

    Register it with.com.store

What it does for you

What you gain when you register it

  • Your service in the address

    Anyone looking for help with a return knows from the link they’ve reached the right place.

  • Email that shows your work

    info@daftar-salmiya.tax tells your customer the message comes from an office working in tax.

  • A word that’s easy to say

    On the phone and in ads, “dot tax” is short and needs no spelling.

  • A free name, more easily

    Words taken in .com years ago you may find free here.

And where its value shows

In filing season

When people look for someone to prepare their returns.

On the invoice

Your office’s address beside every figure you write.

In a short ad

A short word that fits any space.

In email

The message’s source known before it’s opened.

Pros and cons

What you should know before you register

Frankly, as we’d tell a customer who asks us before registering.

Pros

  • 01Short, and names its field directly
  • 02Suits accountants and tax advisers
  • 03A first-year offer with us
  • 04Short names are easier to find than in .com
  • 05Supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing

Cons

  • 01Renewal costs much more than the first year
  • 02Less familiar than .com to many people
  • 03Read as a claim to offer tax services, so it misleads if you don’t
  • 04A narrow field: no room for work beyond tax

Rules

Registration terms for .tax

What the registry requires and what we add, in one place.

Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
Documents
None required, but you agree to follow the laws that govern the field
Name length
Up to 63 characters
Characters
a–z, digits and hyphens, never first or last
Names in Arabic
Supported (IDN)
Registration term
1 to 10 years
DNSSEC
Supported
Privacy protection
Optional, for a separate fee
Transfer
60 days after registration or the last transfer, with an EPP code; adds a year to its term

Life cycle

From registration until the name is free again

What happens to your name if it isn’t renewed, and when you can still get it back.

  1. 01Registration1 to 10 yearsThe name is yours from the moment you pay, for the term you chose.
  2. 02Before expiry31 days, then 8 days beforeWe remind you twice by email; auto-renewal saves you the reminder.
  3. 03After expiryDays 1–8The website and email stop; renew within these days at the regular renewal price.
  4. 04AuctionFrom day 10The name may go to auction; if it sells, it passes to its buyer.Domain recovery policy
  5. 05Redemption30 daysIf the registry offers it after deletion: a $200 redemption fee plus a year’s renewal.
  6. 06Final deletion5 daysThen the name is free again for anyone to register.

Tips

Before you register

  1. 1Your city’s name brings you closerA tax office is searched for by its city’s name, so put it in the address.
  2. 2Point .tax to your main siteIf your office has a .com site, .tax makes a short address for ads that leads to it.
  3. 3A short name, read as it’s writtenIf it needs spelling out on the phone, it’s too long or too complicated.
  4. 4No digits or hyphens that need explainingEvery hyphen or digit has to be said, and what has to be said gets forgotten.
  5. 5Renew automatically, or register for yearsUp to 10 years at once, so you never miss a date.
  6. 6Make sure the name isn’t someone else’s trademarkA registered trademark’s owner can recover the name from whoever registered it first.

Nearby extensions

If your name is taken in .tax

FAQ5 questions

Frequently asked questions about .tax

Didn’t find your answer? Our technical support team is with you around the clock.

Contact support

  • $28 for the first year with an offer, then $77 for each renewal. Look at the renewal price before you register: it’s what you’ll pay every year after the first.

  • Anyone, person or organization, from any country, with no documents. But it’s one of the extensions ICANN binds with special safeguards: at registration you agree to follow the laws that govern its field, data and consumer protection among them.

  • Yes, once 60 days have passed since it was registered or last transferred. Ask your current provider for the transfer (EPP) code and open a transfer request with us; a full year is added to the domain’s term.

  • We remind you by email 31 days and 8 days before expiry, and 3 days after it. After expiry the website and email stop, and you can renew in the first eight days at the regular renewal price; from day 10 it may go to auction. If it is deleted and the registry allows redemption within 30 days, the redemption fee is $200 plus a year’s renewal.

  • Yes. The body responsible for .tax has an Arabic table in IANA’s repository of internationalized names (IDN), so the name is written in Arabic and stored in a form that begins with xn--.

Get your standout domain at unbeatable prices

Start now and choose the perfect domain for your business or brand, with full control and round-the-clock technical support in one place.

Register your domain nowTransfer your domain to us
.com domain per year
$17
Lowest first-year price (.pics)
$3
extensions in the price list
128