.actor: A Home Address for a Performer's Own Name
.actor was delegated to the root zone on 20 February 2014 and is sponsored by Dog Beach, LLC, part of the Identity Digital portfolio. For performers the underlying problem is familiar: your professional presence usually lives on platforms you do not control — agency listings, social profiles, casting databases. An address built on your own name becomes the fixed point where those scattered traces connect.
The practical payoff shows up quickly. Credits, stats, a showreel link and agency contact details sit on one page, and the link you hand a director or casting director still resolves years later. Change platforms and your card does not go stale. Before settling on a name, check whether your full name is free with a domain name search; if it is taken, a middle name or initials often lands better anyway.
.ACTOR Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Delegated to the root zone 20 February 2014
- Typical use Credits, showreel, agency contact
- Eligibility No published registry restriction could be verified
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .actor domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.actor 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
$16.90 /year -
Transfer
$44.19 /year -
Renewal
$47.59 /year -
Restore
$139.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.76
Included With Every .actor 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.
.actor Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .actor 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 .actor 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 .actor 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 $7.76 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 .actor 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
.actor Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.actor Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .actor domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.actor Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .actor Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No published professional requirement could be verified. Nothing in the primary sources we could reach shows the registry asking for union membership, an agency contract or career evidence, so the extension looks open in practice. A drama student, a theatre company or a voice artist registers on the same terms. To see who currently holds a name, run a whois search.
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Several practical routes exist. Add a middle name, reduce it to initials, or use your stage name — stage names are already standard in this profession. If the name is gone entirely, the same identity can be tried in neighbouring endings such as .band or .art. Comparing the options in one list is quicker with a bulk domain name search.
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Usually yes, and often it is the better choice. Nobody on the casting side navigates a menu; they look for credits, a current photo, stats and a showreel link on the first screen. One page keeps that within a scroll and loads fast on a phone. Put agency contact details at the bottom and keep image files reasonable. A site this size runs comfortably on shared hosting.
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Uploading video to a hosting platform and embedding the player usually works better than serving files from your own server: bandwidth costs stay down and playback behaves on every device. The address's job is to gather that embedded player under a permanent link. Even when the platform changes, the link stays the same — so the address printed on your CV or card does not go out of date.
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Yes, even on a page with no contact form. Browsers flag addresses served without HTTPS, and that warning plants unnecessary hesitation in a producer looking you up for the first time. Setup happens once and renewal can run automatically. Options are listed on the SSL certificate page, and the SSL checker confirms the installation is right.
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