Community Domain Names
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Community Domain Names
Community domains bring people together online. Extensions like .me, .social, .family, .life, and .world are designed for personal sites, social networks, community groups, and organisations that exist to connect people. They carry a warm, approachable identity that generic business domains often lack.
The .me extension has become one of the most popular personal domains on the internet, ideal for portfolios, CVs, and personal branding. Meanwhile, .social, .community, and .church serve groups and organisations that are built around shared interests, faith, or geography. These domains make your purpose clear from the first impression.
Whether you are building a personal brand, launching a community forum, creating a family website, or establishing an online presence for a local group, 365i offers community domains that reflect your values and purpose. All registrations include free DNS management and email forwarding.
How to choose between .church, .social, .life, .me and a plain .org.uk
Start with who pays the bill. Most people reading this are volunteers: a village hall committee, a scout group, a residents' association, a churchwarden with a laptop. The invoice arrives every year whether the group had a good year or not, and whoever renews it in 2035 has probably never met whoever registered it. That argues for cheap, boring and easy to say down the phone far more often than for a clever extension.
Which is why the honest starting point is a .org.uk, and why one myth is worth killing off. Nominet's rules of registration list .co.uk and .org.uk as "Open SLDs" and say it does "not impose restrictions on your status as applicant". The charter for .org.uk says registrants are intended to be not-for-profit or public service enterprises, naming community groups and charities among the examples, but the same document says Nominet will "take no action in respect of registrations that do not comply with the SLD Charters". No charity number. Nothing to send in.
The extensions on this page earn their place when the word finishes the job the name started. A .church needs no caption on a noticeboard. A .social suits a club whose whole activity is meeting people. The .life and .world extensions are broad enough to carry a campaign that outgrew its original name, and .me is the one built for a person rather than an organisation.
Two of them ask for something back. The .eco extension wants a pledge and a public profile of your environmental work, reviewed at least once a year. A .ong is validated against Public Interest Registry's definition of a non-governmental organisation. Both are worth having if you qualify and worth leaving alone if you do not. And .lol, .wtf, .fail and .gripe are jokes, which is fine on a campaign page and awkward on the address a treasurer reads out to a bank.
What we would suggest
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A village hall or residents' association
.org.ukNominet applies no eligibility test to .org.uk and lists community groups in its charter for the extension, so nothing has to be proved. It is also the cheapest option here and the easiest to hand on, because a .uk domain moves between registrars by an IPS tag change rather than a week of waiting.
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A parish church or chapel
.churchOn a noticeboard or a service sheet, a name ending in .church explains itself with no strapline and no hyphens. The trade is the annual cost, which runs at roughly five times a .org.uk for as long as the site exists, so show the treasurer the renewal figure before you buy.
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A personal portfolio or online CV
.meGoogle publishes a list of country-code extensions it treats as generic and .me is on it, so Montenegro's ccTLD carries no geographic targeting you need to work around. It also reads as the end of a phrase, which is why names in the style of hire.me stick in the memory.
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A club built around meeting up
.socialThe word describes what the group does rather than what it happens to be called, which rescues a name already taken as a .co.uk. Say it aloud before you commit: people hearing "social" often reach for a social media handle instead of typing a web address.
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A charity working with Spanish or French partners
.ongONG is the acronym for non-governmental organisation in Spanish, French and Portuguese, so it does the same work abroad that .ngo does in English. Public Interest Registry checks the claim, and a domain that fails validation is deleted with no refund, so only take it if the evidence exists.
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A group whose entire purpose is climate work
.ecoIt is one of very few extensions where the registry asks for something back: a pledge, and a public profile of the environmental work you actually do, reviewed at least once a year. That check is the value of the extension, and it is also the catch, because a neglected profile can put the domain on hold.
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Mistakes we see with community domains
Worth reading before you register, because most of these cost money to undo.
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Believing .org.uk is reserved for registered charities, then paying three or four times more for something else to avoid a rule that does not exist.
Do this insteadRead Nominet's own rules of registration: .co.uk and .org.uk are named as Open SLDs with no restriction on the applicant. A scout group, a residents' association or an unincorporated club can hold a .org.uk with nothing to prove and nothing to file.
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The domain sits in one volunteer's personal account under their personal email address. They move away, and nobody can renew it, receive the reminder, or show that the group owns its own address.
Do this insteadPut the group down as the registrant and use a role address such as chair@ or info@ that the committee controls, then write the renewal date into the minutes. Every domain we sell includes free DNS management, email forwarding and one free 10GB mailbox, so the role address costs nothing extra.
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Registering the interesting extension and skipping the boring one. Locals type .co.uk out of habit, so the committee spends the next year hearing "I could not find your website".
Do this insteadTake the .org.uk or .co.uk first, run the site on it, and add the niche extension afterwards as a redirect if you still like it. Do it the other way round and you are paying for the memorable address while losing the visitors.
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Taking a .eco or a .ong for the badge without reading what the registry expects afterwards. Both carry an ongoing obligation and both can be withdrawn, which turns the group website off rather than just looking untidy.
Do this insteadRegister these only when the organisation really does meet the published test, and name one person responsible for the annual profile review or the validation request. If nobody will own that job, pick an extension that asks nothing of you.
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Putting a joke extension on the address the group uses to ask people for money. A .lol, .wtf, .fail or .gripe gets a laugh in the meeting and then has to be read out to a bank, an insurer and a grant panel.
Do this insteadKeep the joke for a one-off campaign page and point it at the main site. The address on a funding application should not need a paragraph of explanation before anyone reaches the form.
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Community Domains FAQ
The .me extension is one of the best choices for personal websites. It is short, memorable, and immediately personal. It works exceptionally well for portfolios, online CVs, personal blogs, and professional branding pages.
Absolutely. Extensions like .community, .church, .social, and .world are designed for both individuals and organisations. Community groups, religious institutions, social enterprises, and clubs all benefit from these approachable domain extensions.
Both are personal domains, but .me is more versatile and widely adopted. The .name extension was originally designed for individuals' actual names, whilst .me works for any personal or branded use. In practice, .me is far more popular and recognisable.
Yes. The .family extension is specifically designed for family websites, reunion pages, and shared family spaces online. It provides a memorable, clearly personal address that is easy to share with relatives.
Yes. All community domain extensions are fully indexed by Google and other search engines. They receive the same treatment as .com domains in search rankings, and can rank well when backed by quality content.
No. Nominet lists .co.uk and .org.uk as Open SLDs in its rules of registration and states that it does not impose restrictions on your status as applicant. The charter for .org.uk says registrants are intended to be not-for-profit or public service enterprises, giving charities, trades unions, political parties, community groups and professional institutions as examples, but the same document says Nominet will take no action over registrations that do not comply with that charter. A sports club, a residents' association or a private individual can hold one. No charity number is requested at any point.
A .org.uk or a .co.uk, both under £10 a year, and the gap matters more than it first looks. Every extension listed on this page costs more than that, and most of them renew at three to five times the price, every year, for as long as the group exists. A decade of a .church or a .green is real money to a committee that runs on raffle tickets and a bank account nobody wants to be the signatory on. Buy the cheap one as the address people type, and treat anything else as an extra you could drop tomorrow without moving the website.
Ask them to transfer it before they go, and on a .uk that is quick. A .co.uk or .org.uk moves by changing the IPS tag, which is close to instant, and ours is STACK. Every other extension on this page takes anywhere from a few hours to seven days and needs an authorisation code from the current registrar. Once the volunteer has gone you are relying on whatever registrant details are on the record, which is the argument for naming the group rather than the person in the first place. Our support team can walk a non-technical trustee through it by ticket, seven days a week.
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