.bond Domain
Fixed Income Meets Fixed Identity
Register your .bond domain from just £15.00/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .bond domain?
The .bond domain speaks directly to the fixed-income securities market. Bond issuers, fund managers, and financial information services can use it to create a focused online presence that investors understand at a glance. It's also picked up traction with surety bond providers and bail bond companies in the US market, giving it a broader reach than you might expect.
Who should register .bond?
Bond fund managers, fixed-income analysts, surety bond providers, and financial data services.
Why choose .bond?
- Speaks to the investment community
- Works for securities and surety bonds
- Concise and professional address
- Niche enough to signal expertise
Who runs .bond, and since when
Registry data from the .bond 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
- Shortdot SA
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 30 October 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide since ShortDot took the registry over in 2019
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £15.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
How .bond went from a university to open sale
.bond has a history most extensions do not. It was contracted to Bond University Limited, described in the ICANN registry agreement as a charitable institution formed under the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia, and delegated in March 2015. It was never a restricted community extension and never a brand-only one, but for four years it belonged to a university that had little reason to sell it to anyone. IANA recorded its transfer to ShortDot SA on 20 September 2019, and ShortDot, which is based in Luxembourg, now offers it openly with no industry limitation.
That history explains the odd thing about the name pool: a lot of short, obvious words were still there long after equivalent extensions had been picked clean.
The word itself pulls in several directions. Fixed income securities, surety and bail bonds, adhesives, a film franchise, and the everyday sense of a bond between people. Ambiguity is a branding problem or an opportunity depending on how much context the rest of your name supplies, and it is the first thing to test on somebody who has not heard the idea before.
Is .bond the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.bond works well if
- Your name already contains or implies the word bond, and the extension completes it without needing a suffix nobody says out loud.
- You want a short, memorable address at a low annual cost, and the ambiguity of the word is something your brand can turn to its advantage.
- You are in fixed income, surety or a related field and want an address that reads as specialist to people who already know the sector.
Look elsewhere if
- You sell financial products to UK consumers. Unfamiliar extensions on money sites invite exactly the caution that regulated firms spend money trying to overcome.
- You need people to hear the address once and get it right. Bond carries too many meanings for that to be reliable over the phone.
- Most of your customers search from the UK. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that .bond does not, and costs less again.
Regulated and selling to UK consumers? A .co.uk is the address British customers expect on a financial site. See .co.uk pricing.
.bond vs .com: which should you register?
The trade-off is availability against familiarity, which is the same trade-off almost every newer extension asks you to make. In finance the .com you want has been gone since the 1990s, and what is available is long, hyphenated or a coined word nobody can spell. A .bond is short and still has room in it.
What .com buys is the absence of doubt. It is what people type by default, it is what a compliance reviewer expects to see, and it never has to be explained to a customer who is nervous about money. If the budget covers both, hold the .com as the address on statements and letters and let the .bond do the memorable work in marketing.
.bond domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .bond domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyShortDot SA, a Luxembourg company, has operated it since IANA recorded the transfer on 20 September 2019. Before that the extension was contracted to Bond University Limited, an Australian charitable institution, from its delegation in March 2015. ShortDot markets it as globally accessible with no industry limitation, which is a change of posture rather than a change of rules: it was never a restricted community extension in the first place.
No. The registry states plainly that .bond domains are open with no industry limitation, so any person or company anywhere can register one. Names follow the usual technical rules of one to sixty-three characters using letters, numbers and hyphens. Nothing about the extension implies that the holder is a regulated firm, and buyers of financial products should not read it as though it does.
It can be, and that is the main thing to weigh. The word covers fixed income, surety, bail, adhesives, a film franchise and ordinary human relationships, so the address only lands cleanly when the rest of your name supplies the context. Test it by saying the full domain to somebody outside your industry and asking what they think the site sells. If they guess wrong, the extension is fighting you.
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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