.club Domain
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What is a .club domain?
The .club domain serves membership organisations, sports clubs, social clubs, and subscription communities. It carries warmth and exclusivity in equal measure. Football supporters' clubs, wine clubs, and members-only platforms all benefit from a domain that tells visitors they're joining something, not just visiting.
Who should register .club?
Sports clubs, wine clubs, members-only platforms, social clubs, and subscription communities.
Why choose .club?
- Implies membership and belonging
- Warm and community-focused
- Works for sports, social, and commercial
- Encourages sign-ups and subscriptions
Who runs .club, and since when
Registry data from the .club 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
- Registry Services, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 9 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no membership, committee or constitution required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £19.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Where a .club domain fits for clubs and memberships
Of the hundreds of extensions that came out of the 2014 expansion, .club is one of very few whose word people already use about themselves. Nobody describes their organisation as a .guru. Plenty of them say "we are a club" and mean it literally: a Sunday league side, a cycling club, a rifle club, an amateur dramatics society, a book group, a members' bar. The extension opened to general registration on 7 May 2014 and was one of the fastest starts of its generation.
It was run at first by .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company that won the string at private auction before launch. IANA records the transfer to Registry Services, LLC in August 2021, so .club now sits with GoDaddy's registry business, the same operator that holds .biz. Unlike .biz, there is no eligibility test and no use restriction: you do not have to be constituted, have members or show a committee, and the ICANN registry agreement contains no restriction specification at all.
Two buyers, pulling in different directions
The first is an actual club, and for them the address does something a .co.uk cannot. It says what the organisation is inside the domain itself, which saves a line of explanation on every poster and every shirt. The second buyer is a subscription business borrowing the word as a frame: a box scheme, a members' area, a paid community. Both uses are legitimate and the extension is open to both, but the second group is why a .club address sometimes reads as an offer rather than an organisation. You do not get to choose which association a visitor arrives with.
For a British club there is a further point that has nothing to do with branding. Constituted clubs deal with county associations, grant funders, banks and, if they are a community amateur sports club, HMRC. Those relationships run on paperwork, and the paperwork expects .co.uk or .org.uk. None of them will turn you away for holding a .club, but the older extensions carry an institutional familiarity that a 2014 arrival has not had time to build.
On money, look at the renewal rather than the first year. New extensions of this vintage are heavily discounted on year one by some sellers and renewed at several times that figure, and the base registry contract puts no ceiling on what the registry may charge, only a notice period. Our figure to register and our figure to transfer in are the same, and that is the number worth comparing.
Is .club the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.club works well if
- You run something people already call a club, so the extension repeats a word your members use rather than inventing one.
- Your name is generic in isolation, like the town plus a sport, and the .club version stays readable where the .co.uk version needs three words.
- You are launching a paid membership, a course community or a subscription box and the address is doing marketing work as well as routing work.
- Your audience is young, arrives from social media and has never assumed every website ends in .com.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a constituted club applying for grants or working with a county association. Funders, banks and forms expect .org.uk, and familiarity beats cleverness there.
- Your members are older and half your enquiries come by phone. Every one of them will need the extension spelling out.
- The club has almost no income. A .club costs roughly double a .org.uk here, every year, for a signal the words before the dot already supply.
- You need UK search visibility on terms like the town and the sport. A .club gives Google no geographic signal at all, where a .org.uk does.
Running a constituted club or a charity? A .org.uk costs less, transfers in free, and is the extension funders and banks expect. See .org.uk pricing.
.club vs .org.uk: which should you register?
For a UK club these two are the real shortlist, and they are not competing on the same ground. A .org.uk says what kind of body you are and where you are. A .club says what kind of body you are and nothing about where.
.org.uk is the institutional answer. Nominet runs it, it reads as non-commercial, it gives Google a British signal, it is among the cheapest extensions we sell, and a transfer in is free and effectively instant because .uk transfers are an IPS tag change. If your club fills in forms for a living, this is the low-friction option.
.club is the communication answer. It is shorter, it puts the word in the address, and it is available in names the .org.uk lost years ago. Clubs that are really brands, and memberships that are really products, get more out of it than a village cricket team will. Plenty of clubs hold both and redirect, which is the cheapest way to stop arguing about it.
| .club | .org.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Generic, open worldwide | UK country-code, second level |
| Registry | Registry Services, LLC | Nominet UK |
| Available since | May 2014 | The 1980s |
| Geographic signal | None | United Kingdom |
| Reads as | A club or a membership offer | A non-commercial organisation |
| Transfer in | Hours to days, auth code | Near instant, free, via IPS tag |
.club domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .club domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. There is no eligibility test on .club, no constitution to produce and no membership list to show. The ICANN registry agreement carries no restriction specification, which is the formal way of saying the registry has not reserved the extension for any particular kind of registrant. Businesses, individuals and organisations outside the UK all register .club names on identical terms. The registry can still suspend a domain used for phishing, malware or other abuse, which is true of every extension.
It reads well and it is easy to remember, but it is not the low-friction choice. Constituted clubs spend a lot of time on forms for county associations, grant bodies, banks and sometimes HMRC, and those bodies are used to seeing .org.uk and .co.uk. A .club will not be refused anywhere, it simply asks people to take one small extra step. Where the club is really a brand, a gym, a box, a race series, the balance tips the other way.
Because the first year was discounted and the renewal is not, which is common across the 2014-era extensions. Nothing in the registry contract caps what a .club may cost. The registry has to give thirty days' notice before raising the price of a new registration and a hundred and eighty days before raising renewals, and that is the whole of the protection. Our registration and transfer figures are the same, so the price you see is the price you keep paying.
No. Google treats new extensions the same as .com and .org, and it has said publicly that a keyword in the extension gives neither an advantage nor a disadvantage. The practical limitation is different: .club is not a country-code extension, so it carries no geographic signal. A club searching to be found for its town and its sport gets nothing from the extension and everything from the page content, the address on the site, and links from local sources like the county association.
Registry Services, LLC, GoDaddy's registry business. The extension was launched in 2014 by .CLUB Domains, LLC, which had won the string at a private auction, and IANA recorded the transfer to its current operator in August 2021. That puts .club under the same roof as .biz. In day-to-day terms this changes nothing for a registrant: the same technical standards, the same transfer process and the same abuse policies apply as before.
Yes, and it is one of the extension's strongest uses. Nothing in the .club rules distinguishes a commercial membership from an amateur society, so a subscription community, a course platform or a members-only shop is all fair game. Be aware of the flip side: heavy commercial use of the word is part of why some visitors read .club as a sales offer. If your product is a membership, that association is working for you. If you are a village society, it is working against you.
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