.community Domain
Bring People Together with .community
Register your .community domain from just £37.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .community domain?
The .community domain is made for groups that bring people together around shared interests, causes, or geography. It's equally suited to neighbourhood organisations, online forums, and special interest groups.
Who should register .community?
Community groups, neighbourhood organisations, forums, and local initiatives.
Why choose .community?
- Signals collective purpose
- Ideal for local groups
- Welcoming and inclusive
- Works online and offline
Who runs .community, and since when
Registry data from the .community 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 23 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with no requirement to be a group, charity or membership body
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £37.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .community costs a volunteer-run group each year
Most of the organisations this extension was written for have no budget. Neighbourhood associations, allotment societies, faith groups and sports clubs run on subscriptions, raffles and somebody giving up their evenings, and a .community domain costs several times what a .co.uk does, every year, with no end date on it. That is the honest starting point, because a domain bill that outlives the treasurer who set it up is how community websites quietly disappear.
Where the money earns its place is when the word is the identity. A group is not a company and does not want to look like one, and .org has been diluted by twenty years of open commercial use. An address ending in .community says what the site is in a way that neither .org nor .co.uk manages on its own.
The extension was delegated in January 2014, originally to a single-purpose company called Fox Orchard, LLC, and moved to Identity Digital through Binky Moon in the March 2018 consolidation. Despite the name, nothing about it is restricted. There is no membership test, no constitution to file and no charity number to supply. A commercial business can register one, and plenty do.
If you are choosing on behalf of a group, put the domain in the organisation name rather than an individual one, keep the registrant email on an address the committee controls, and turn auto-renew on. A domain registered to somebody's personal email address is one resignation away from nobody being able to renew it, and by then the website and the email have already stopped.
Is .community the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.community works well if
- The group is the point: a neighbourhood association, allotment society or faith group where community is the word people already use for it.
- You want to read as clearly non-commercial, and .org no longer carries that signal the way it did twenty years ago.
- You are running a membership or neighbourhood platform and the address has to explain itself on a poster in a shop window.
- A business is building a user community and wants it on its own address, away from the commercial site.
Look elsewhere if
- The group has no reliable annual budget. This costs several times a .co.uk every year, and a missed renewal takes the website and the email addresses with it.
- You want the cheapest credible non-profit address. A .org costs a good deal less here and every visitor already understands it.
- Your supporters search for you by town. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that .community has no way to carry.
Running a small group on a tight budget? A .co.uk costs a fraction of this and carries a UK search signal that .community cannot. See .co.uk pricing.
.community vs .org: which should you register?
These are the two addresses a group actually chooses between, and the gap is meaning against cost.
.org has been in the root zone since 1985 and everybody recognises it. It is also open to anyone and always has been, so plenty of ordinary companies sit on it, and the not-for-profit association it once carried is weaker than most people assume. At our current prices it is the cheaper of the two by a wide margin.
.community says something .org no longer says on its own, and it says it to a person reading a poster rather than to a search engine. That is worth paying for when the group is small and local and needs to be understood in one glance. It is not worth paying for when the group already has a name people know.
| .community | .org | |
|---|---|---|
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 1985 |
| Registry operator | Binky Moon, LLC | Public Interest Registry |
| Who may register | Anyone, including companies | Anyone, including companies |
| Recognition | Explains itself but unfamiliar | Understood everywhere |
| Annual cost | Higher | Lower |
.community domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .community domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. There is no membership test, no constitution to file, no charity number to supply and no check of any kind on what sort of organisation you are. Identity Digital runs .community as an ordinary generic extension, so a limited company can register one just as easily as a residents group can. The name carries a meaning the registry does not enforce.
It is clearer, and .org is cheaper and better understood. An address ending .community tells a stranger what the site is before they click, which is worth real money for a group that advertises on noticeboards and shop windows. A .org needs no explanation to anyone and costs a good deal less each year. If the group has an established name, .org usually wins on value.
You lose the website and the email at the same time, which is the part groups forget. Once a domain expires the DNS stops answering, so anything using that address stops working, including mailboxes and forwarders. Recovery afterwards is usually possible but costs a good deal more than renewing would have. Turn auto-renew on, keep a payment method on file that has not expired, and use a committee address rather than a personal one as the registrant email.
No. Free WHOIS privacy is a .uk arrangement, and it exists because Nominet does not publish a UK individual registrant's name and address by default. On .community, as on every other non-UK extension, privacy is a paid add-on. If the group would rather not publish a member's home address, either buy the privacy service or register in the organisation name using a postal address the committee is happy to make public.
Included with Your .community Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
Set up professional email addresses and forward to any inbox.
Auto-Renewal
Never lose your domain with automatic renewal protection.
Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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