.chat Domain
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Register your .chat domain from just £37.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .chat domain?
The .chat domain is for platforms where conversation is the product. Messaging apps, customer support portals, online counselling services, and community forums all benefit from a domain that signals real-time interaction. It's short, it's clear, and it sets the expectation that someone (or something) is ready to respond.
Who should register .chat?
Messaging platforms, customer support portals, online counselling services, and community discussion forums.
Why choose .chat?
- Signals real-time interaction
- Short and instantly understood
- Works for AI chatbots and human support
- Four letters, easy to remember
Who runs .chat, and since when
Registry data from the .chat 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
- 2015
- Delegated 29 January 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no verification and no documents required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £37.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
When a .chat domain beats a chat subdomain
Before anything else, the awkward question. You can already have chat.yourcompany.co.uk for nothing. It works today, it inherits the name your customers already know, and it costs one DNS record. So what does a .chat domain buy that a subdomain does not?
Separation, and only separation. A .chat earns its keep when the conversation is the product rather than a feature of something else. A messaging app, an online counselling service, a paid community, a support desk sold as its own service: those need an identity that does not depend on a parent brand, and this gives them one. A live chat widget bolted onto an existing website does not, and paying an annual fee for it is money moving in the wrong direction.
Binky Moon, LLC holds the extension and IANA records the delegation on 29 January 2015, later than most of the strings in this group. The practical effect is that shorter names survived a little further into the land grab, so there is more left in front of the dot than the 2014 extensions kept.
One consequence to weigh before you commit. A separate registrable domain is a separate site: anything you build on it starts with no reputation at all, and the reviews, links and coverage that point at your .chat point at the .chat rather than at your main address. On a subdomain that separation is much softer. If your support conversation is a feature of a product, keeping it on the same name is usually cheaper and better. If it is the whole business, the opposite applies.
Is .chat the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.chat works well if
- Conversation is the product: a messaging app, an online counselling service, a paid community people join rather than read.
- You say the address out loud constantly, on podcasts or support calls, and it has to survive being heard once.
- The .com you wanted has gone and you would rather have four or five clean letters in front of the dot than a padded alternative.
- You are launching something with no website yet, so there is no established domain to hang a subdomain off.
Look elsewhere if
- You already own a domain. chat.yourcompany.co.uk costs nothing, works this afternoon, and keeps everything under one name.
- At around four times a .co.uk each year, the price only makes sense if the address is doing real work in your marketing.
- Running a conversation on a different domain from your product costs a little trust with non-technical customers, who look at the address bar before typing anything personal.
Adding live chat to an existing site? A .support costs less each year and describes what most teams are really running. See .support pricing.
.chat vs .support: which should you register?
Both belong to the same registry, Binky Moon in the Identity Digital group, so this is a comparison about meaning and price rather than about who you are dealing with.
.chat promises a person, now. It sets the expectation that something responds while you wait, and that is a promise you have to keep. Put it on a knowledge base with a contact form at the bottom and you have created a small disappointment on every visit. .support promises answers, whenever you look. It covers the documentation, the ticket form and the live chat together, it is the more accurate word for what most teams actually run, and it costs roughly a third less each year.
Pick .chat when live conversation is the service being sold. Pick .support when conversation is one of several ways people get help.
| .chat | .support | |
|---|---|---|
| What it promises | Someone replying now | Answers, whenever you look |
| Best fit | The product itself | A help centre beside a product |
| Registry | Binky Moon, LLC | Binky Moon, LLC |
| Root zone since | 2015 | 2013 |
| Annual cost here | Higher | Lower by roughly a third |
.chat domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .chat domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyFor most businesses, yes. A subdomain costs nothing, takes one DNS record, and keeps your support under the name customers already recognise, which is worth more than a clever address. A separate .chat makes sense when the conversation is the product you sell, when it needs an identity that survives the parent brand being renamed or sold, or when you have no main website yet. Free DNS management comes with every domain we register, so the subdomain route adds no cost either way.
No, and the assumption is worth resisting. The extension long predates the current wave of chat products and is used by human-staffed services as much as automated ones: counselling and helpline charities, customer support desks, community forums and messaging apps. What it signals, whoever or whatever is at the other end, is that somebody responds. If your site is a knowledge base with a contact form, that is a promise you cannot keep and a different extension will serve you better.
Anyone in the world, with no checks. Binky Moon, LLC runs .chat under a standard ICANN registry agreement and publishes no eligibility criteria, so there is no industry test, no residency requirement and no document to supply. Registration is instant. The unavailable strings are the ones ICANN reserves in every new extension, meaning all two-character second-level labels and the short-form names of countries and territories, plus whatever the registry holds back as premium inventory.
It changes what you are building, which is the part people miss. A separate registrable domain accumulates its own links, reviews and coverage, and none of that points at your main site. For a support tool nobody links to, that costs you nothing. For a knowledge base that answers real questions and picks up links from forums and social posts, you have moved a source of reputation off your main address onto one starting from zero. Weigh that before you move existing content.
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DNS Management
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Email Forwarding
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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