.airforce Domain
A Domain with Military Precision
Register your .airforce domain from just £83.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .airforce domain?
The .airforce domain serves military history enthusiasts, air show organisers, aviation heritage sites, and veteran community groups. It's a niche extension that carries authority and respect. Model aircraft clubs, squadron reunion sites, and defence news outlets all find a natural fit here.
Who should register .airforce?
Air show organisers, military aviation enthusiasts, veteran associations, and squadron heritage sites.
Why choose .airforce?
- Carries authority and respect
- Niche audience with strong loyalty
- Ideal for heritage and reunion sites
- Pairs well with squadron names
Who runs .airforce, and since when
Registry data from the .airforce delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registry operator
- Dog Beach, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 17 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone; no military service, veteran status or affiliation is checked
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £83.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .airforce costs far more than .army
Start with the odd bit. .airforce and .army come from the same registry operator, were delegated six weeks apart in 2014, and are technically run by the same people, yet .airforce costs well over twice as much and is among the dearest endings we sell in this group. There is no policy difference behind it and nothing extra you get. It is a wholesale pricing decision on a keyword the registry judged more valuable, and it lands every year for as long as you hold the name.
That matters here more than on a commercial extension, because the natural buyers are volunteers. Squadron associations, reunion committees, museum groups and heritage projects run on subscriptions and raffles, and an annual domain bill many times the price of a .org.uk is a real line in a small budget.
Worth saying plainly: registering one grants no affiliation with any air force. Anyone can buy one. A name that implies official Royal Air Force or United States Air Force endorsement invites a trademark complaint whatever the extension, and the extension will not defend it.
Is .airforce the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.airforce works well if
- You run an aviation heritage project or squadron association where the word is the subject, and the address doing the explaining saves a lot of copy.
- You organise an air show or a museum event and want a short, memorable address to print on tickets and signage for one campaign.
- You already hold a .org.uk for the association and want the obvious variant registered defensively so nobody else takes it.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a volunteer group counting every pound. This costs many times a .org.uk each year, for a site that may change once a season.
- You want it to signal official standing. It cannot: there is no check on affiliation, and a name implying endorsement risks a trademark complaint.
- Your supporters are British and find you through search. A .org.uk carries a UK signal and reads as the normal home for an association.
A veterans' or heritage association will do better on the extension British supporters already expect. See .org.uk pricing.
.airforce vs .org.uk: which should you register?
For a UK association these two barely compete. A .org.uk is a fraction of the price, renews at the same low figure every year, is read by Google as a UK site, and tells a British visitor immediately that they are looking at a non-commercial organisation. Transfers between providers are near instant because they are an IPS tag change at Nominet, and for a UK individual registrant the personal details are not published in the public record by default.
The .airforce buys one thing, which is that the subject is in the address. For a museum, an air show or a heritage project selling to the public, that can be worth having on a poster. The sensible arrangement is the .org.uk as the association's permanent home and the .airforce as the campaign address pointed at it, so the annual cost buys promotion rather than infrastructure.
.airforce domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .airforce domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNone at all. The registry agreement is a standard one with no community specification, so there is no check on service history, veteran status or affiliation with any armed force. That openness is why the extension is used for gaming groups and fitness brands as well as heritage sites. It also means the address proves nothing about who you are, so a serious association still needs to say plainly on the site who it represents and what its connection to a squadron or unit actually is.
Be careful. The extension gives you no rights you did not already have, and naming rules around armed forces branding are set by trademark law and by the services themselves, not by the registry. A reunion or history site that is clear about being unofficial is a different proposition from one whose name and presentation imply endorsement. If there is any doubt, put "association", "veterans" or "heritage" in the name and say on the homepage that the site is independent.
Purely because the registry prices them differently. Both come from the same operator, both were delegated in 2014, and both are run on the same technical platform, but wholesale rates are set string by string according to what the registry thinks a keyword will bear. Nothing in the higher price buys you better service, better security or a better domain. If the cost is the deciding factor for a volunteer group, that is a reasonable basis to choose a different extension.
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