.black Domain
Bold Branding in a Single Word
Register your .black domain from just £56.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .black domain?
The .black domain works for brands built around elegance, exclusivity, or the colour itself. Black-owned businesses, luxury fashion labels, and creative studios with a dark aesthetic all find a natural home here. It's also picked up by businesses with "Black" in their name or brand identity. Short, striking, and hard to forget.
Who should register .black?
Luxury fashion brands, creative studios with dark aesthetics, black-owned business directories, and lifestyle brands.
Why choose .black?
- Striking and memorable
- Works for luxury and exclusivity
- Perfect for brands using dark aesthetics
- Five letters with strong visual identity
Who runs .black, and since when
Registry data from the .black 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
- Identity Digital Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 20 March 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no eligibility test of any kind
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £56.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .black domain costs, and what it says
Start with the number, because it is the thing most likely to change your mind. A .black domain is one of the most expensive extensions in this category, running to roughly five or six times a .co.uk and around double most of the creative extensions sitting next to it. That is an annual charge rather than a one-off, so across a decade the gap becomes real money for a small brand.
What you get for it is a single strong word. .black belongs to a set of colour extensions run by the same operator, Identity Digital Domains Limited, alongside .blue, .pink and .red, and it is the one of the four carrying weight beyond the colour. Fashion uses it. Studios with a dark visual identity use it. Businesses with Black in the name use it, and so do organisations serving Black communities, which is a different meaning again.
That last point is why you should read the whole domain aloud before ordering. The word carries associations the colour does not: race and identity in one direction, mourning and blacklisting in another. A name that looks sharp in a logo can land very differently once the dot vanishes in speech. Say it to somebody who has not seen it written down and watch what they hear.
Registration is open, with no verification of any kind and no check on what the word is doing in your name.
Is .black the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.black works well if
- Your brand is the word black, or contains it, so the domain becomes the brand rather than describing it.
- You work in fashion, luxury or a design-led sector where a dark identity is the whole visual language.
- You want a five-letter extension that finishes a two-word name cleanly across the dot.
- Budget is not the deciding factor and you would rather pay for a word nobody can dilute.
Look elsewhere if
- You are watching costs. This runs to around six times a .co.uk every year, and the gap compounds for as long as you trade.
- Your customers hear addresses rather than reading them. Colour extensions do not survive being dictated over a bad line.
- The associations of the word do not match what you sell. Read the full domain to a stranger before you commit to it.
Want a short striking name without the annual premium? A strong single word on a .co.uk costs a fraction of this. See .co.uk pricing.
.black vs .com: which should you register?
A brand looking at .black has usually already lost the .com, and the real question is whether to pay a premium for a word extension or pad the .com instead.
.com costs a fraction of this, needs no explanation to anybody, and never gets mistyped. .black gives you the clean word when the .com only offers a hyphen or a suffix, and it looks deliberate in a way that getblackstudio.com never will.
Weigh the annual bill against the branding gain. For most businesses the .com with a slightly longer name is still the calmer answer.
| .black | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | Around three and a half times a .com | Low |
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 1985 |
| Typed by default | No | Yes |
| Clean single word | Often available | Rarely available |
| Sibling extensions | .blue, .pink, .red | None |
.black domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .black domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyThe registry prices it that way, and demand from fashion and design brands sustains it. There is nothing technically different about a .black: the DNS resolution, the DNSSEC support and the record types match any other extension. You are paying for a short, strong word rather than for anything under the bonnet. Check the annual figure against a .co.uk before committing, because it renews at that rate every year.
No. Registration is open to anyone worldwide with no eligibility test, and the extension is used by luxury labels, design studios and businesses that simply have Black in their name. That openness cuts both ways: because nothing is verified, the extension proves nothing about ownership or community, so a directory or a brand relying on that meaning should make it explicit on the page rather than in the address.
Identity Digital Domains Limited, which signed the ICANN registry contract in January 2014 and took the extension live that March. The same operator runs the other colour extensions, .blue, .pink and .red, which is why the four behave alike on policy and renewal. Identity Digital's acceptable use policy applies, letting the registry suspend or cancel a name used abusively.
Written down, yes: it is short and visually striking. Spoken aloud, less reliably, because a listener has to work out that black is the extension rather than part of the name. Test it by leaving your address on a voicemail and seeing whether the person calls back at the right place. If your business runs on phone enquiries, that test matters more than how the logo looks.
Included with Your .black Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
Set up professional email addresses and forward to any inbox.
Auto-Renewal
Never lose your domain with automatic renewal protection.
Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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