.capital Domain
Command Confidence in Financial Markets
Register your .capital domain from just £58.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .capital domain?
The .capital domain is tailored for investment firms, venture capital companies, and financial institutions. It communicates scale, ambition, and financial expertise from the very first impression.
Who should register .capital?
Investment firms, venture capital companies, private equity, and financial holding companies.
Why choose .capital?
- Projects financial authority
- Concise and powerful branding
- Ideal for investor-facing sites
- Signals scale and ambition
Who runs .capital, and since when
Registry data from the .capital 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
- Binky Moon, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 3 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, though country and territory names are reserved
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £58.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Two meanings of .capital, and one reserved-name trap
Capital carries two meanings and both of them sell domains. There is capital as money, which is what investment managers, private equity firms, family offices and lenders are buying. There is capital as a city, which is what tourism sites, listings and city guides reach for. The extension is neutral between the two, and that ambiguity deserves a moment before you commit: a visitor who arrives expecting one meaning has to be corrected by your homepage.
If the city meaning is the plan, one rule catches people out. Every generic extension reserves country and territory names at the second level under ICANN's Schedule of Reserved Names, drawn from the ISO 3166-1 list and the United Nations geographical name lists, and all two-character labels are withheld as well. So a country name is not available here and neither are the obvious two-letter abbreviations. City names are not on those lists, so they remain registrable.
On the money side, .capital reads well and it reads expensive, which for a fund or an advisory firm is rather the point. Capital appears in more firm names than almost any other word in the sector, so the matching .com went long ago while the .capital version of the same name is frequently still free. That, more than any branding theory, is why firms buy it.
The extension carries ICANN's Category 1 commitments for regulated sectors, so through your registrar you undertake to comply with applicable law and to protect sensitive financial data. Nothing checks your permissions. The domain proves nothing about what you are authorised to do.
Is .capital the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.capital works well if
- Your firm name already ends in Capital, so the extension takes a word out of the address instead of adding one to it.
- You raise or deploy money and your audience is professional, where an unusual extension reads as deliberate rather than as a compromise.
- The .com for your name is held by an unrelated firm in another market and buying it out is not a realistic plan.
- You want one short address for a fund or a vehicle that needs to sit visibly apart from the parent firm.
Look elsewhere if
- You serve retail clients rather than institutions. Consumers checking a financial firm are trained to be wary of an address they do not recognise, and you will spend goodwill explaining it.
- You want the word to mean money and only money. It also means capital city, and a share of your visitors will arrive with the wrong expectation.
- It costs roughly six times a .co.uk each year, which is a poor trade if the .co.uk for your firm name is still sitting there unregistered.
UK firm with the matching .co.uk still available? Take that first and hold .capital as a redirect. See .co.uk pricing.
.capital vs .com: which should you register?
A .com asks nothing of the reader. That is its entire advantage and it is a large one in finance, where an unfamiliar address is a reason to pause before typing card details or sending money. A .capital asks the reader to accept a newer extension in return for a name that actually fits the firm.
The trade only makes sense when the .com you want is gone, which in this sector it almost always is. Capital, Partners, Advisors and Group are the four most crowded words in firm naming and the clean .com combinations went in the 2000s. Padding a .com with an extra word usually costs you more recognition than moving extension does.
If both are free, take the .com. If only one is, take whichever gives you the shorter, cleaner name, and set a reminder to pick up the other if it ever drops.
| .capital | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Reader familiarity | Low outside finance | Universal |
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 1985 |
| Category 1 commitments | Yes | No |
| Country names available | No, reserved by ICANN | No, reserved by ICANN |
| Annual cost | Roughly six times a .co.uk | Under twice a .co.uk |
.capital domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .capital domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. ICANN's Schedule of Reserved Names withholds country and territory names at every level in every generic extension, taken from the short English forms on the ISO 3166-1 list and from two United Nations geographical name lists. All two-character labels are withheld at the second level as well, which rules out the obvious country abbreviations. City names are not covered by those lists, so a capital city name is registrable if nobody has taken it.
No, and that is both its strength and its weakness. The registry sets no restriction on use, so tourism sites, city guides and property listings use it in the capital city sense while funds and advisory firms use it in the money sense. Nothing separates the two in the address bar. If your audience could plausibly read the word either way, decide which meaning your homepage has to establish in the first sentence, and write it accordingly.
No. Nothing about the extension implies authorisation and nothing is verified when it is registered. The registry agreement contains commitments about complying with applicable law and protecting sensitive financial data, but those pass through the registrar as undertakings rather than checks. If you want to know whether a firm holds permissions, look it up on the Financial Services Register. Judging a financial firm by its domain extension is how people get caught out.
Registry pricing, and demand from a sector that can absorb it. Roughly six times a .co.uk buys you nothing technical: the DNS resolution, DNSSEC support and record types are identical. You are paying for the word and for the availability of names that are long gone on .com. Check the annual figure on this page against the .co.uk price and remember it recurs. Identity Digital also holds a premium name list it can revise, so a short name may sit above the standard rate.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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