.company Domain
No-Nonsense Corporate Branding
Register your .company domain from just £20.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .company domain?
The .company domain does exactly what you'd expect. It labels your site as a company's online presence, with no ambiguity and no pretension. Small and medium businesses that want a professional web address without the cost of a premium .com find .company a solid, affordable choice. It's formal enough for client-facing use but accessible enough for any sector.
Who should register .company?
SMEs, corporate websites, company profile pages, and businesses wanting a clear organisational signal.
Why choose .company?
- Clear organisational signal
- Affordable professional branding
- Works for any company size
- Formal without being stuffy
Who runs .company, and since when
Registry data from the .company 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
- 2013
- Delegated 12 December 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with openness written into the ICANN registry agreement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £20.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The .company domain and its .com typing problem
Say yourbusiness.company out loud to a customer and watch what they type. The first three letters of the word are c, o and m, and a fair number of people hear the start of it, stop listening, and go to the .com instead. That is the most useful thing to know about this extension before you buy, and it is the one thing nobody selling it puts on the page.
The rest of it stacks up well. The .company domain was delegated on 12 December 2013, in the first wave of new generic extensions, and is operated by Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital. It does what the label says: it marks the site as a business, in a word every reader already understands, with no jargon and nothing to explain. It works best when the .com you wanted is parked or priced out of reach, and when your brand name reads naturally with the word sitting after it.
What the registry can and cannot do to you
Registration is open, and the openness is contractual rather than a policy that could be rewritten on a Tuesday. Specification 11 of the ICANN registry agreement commits the operator to keep second level registrations open and available to lawful registrants, bars it from limiting eligibility based on identity, and requires it not to shut out people associated with a minority usage of the word. A sole trader, a partnership, a charity or a club can all hold one. Nothing checks Companies House, and nothing is going to start.
Two things do limit what you can actually buy. Country and city names are reserved under Specification 5 of the same agreement and cannot be registered at the second level, so a place name is a dead end before you start. And Identity Digital operates a trademark blocking service across its whole portfolio at a registrar's request, which means a name can come back unavailable without anyone having registered it. If a name you expected to be free reports as taken and resolves to nothing, that is usually why. Some names also sit in a premium price tier, and a premium name renews at the premium price every year, not just the first, so check the renewal figure and not only the first-year one.
Our steer for a UK business: buy it if the word belongs in your brand, or hold it beside your main address and redirect. As the primary web address for a firm selling to British customers, a .co.uk costs less than half as much every year and carries a UK signal in Google that this one does not.
Is .company the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.company works well if
- The .com you wanted has gone or is priced as a premium, and your brand name still reads naturally with the word company after it.
- You are registering defensively around an existing .co.uk or .com, and want the matching name pointing at your main site.
- Your trading name means nothing on its own, so you want the extension doing the work of saying what the site is.
- You trade in more than one country and want a business-looking address that is not tied to any of them.
Look elsewhere if
- Price matters to you. A .company costs more each year than a .com and roughly double a .co.uk, and that bill repeats for as long as you trade.
- You give the address out by phone. The word starts with c, o, m, and people will type .com without hearing the rest of it.
- You sell mainly to UK consumers who search locally. A .co.uk carries a geographic signal in Google that a generic extension cannot.
- Your brand is already short and distinctive. Bolting company onto the end of it reads as padding rather than as a name.
Selling mainly to UK customers? A .co.uk costs less than half as much and does more for local search. See .co.uk pricing.
.company vs .com: which should you register?
Most people looking at a .company are here because the .com went years ago. That is the honest framing: this is rarely a preference, it is what is left, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as you know it going in.
Where .com still wins: it is the default guess, needs no explanation to anybody, and costs less per year than a .company at our prices, which surprises people who assume a newer extension must be the cheap option. Where .company wins: availability. A clean two-word name is often still free here when the .com equivalent would have to be hyphenated, abbreviated or bought from whoever already owns it.
If you can afford both, take both and point one at the other. That closes the mis-typing hole, which on this extension is the risk that actually costs you visitors.
| .company | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Generic, delegated 2013 | Generic, delegated 1985 |
| Who may register | Anyone; open registration is a contract commitment | Anyone |
| Annual cost | Above a .com, roughly double a .co.uk | Low |
| Short names left | Plenty across most sectors | Very few without hyphens |
| Said out loud | Often heard as .com | What people assume by default |
| Premium price tiers | Yes, and they renew at the premium price | No registry premium tier |
.company domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .company domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Registration is open to anyone and nothing asks for a company number or a certificate of incorporation. The registry agreement goes further than merely permitting that: Specification 11 bars the operator from limiting eligibility based on identity, so a sole trader, a partnership, a charity or an unincorporated club can all hold one. If you want an extension that verifies incorporation, .ltd.uk is the one that does it.
No, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling. A .com is what people type by default, needs no explaining, and costs less per year with us. A .company earns its place in one situation: the name you want is free here and gone there, or only there in a hyphenated form you would rather not use. Pick it for availability, not because you think it looks more official.
The registry sets the wholesale price, and Identity Digital prices its portfolio well above what Verisign charges for .com. Nothing technical justifies the gap: DNS resolution, DNSSEC support, record types and speed are identical to any other extension. You are paying for the word. Decide whether the word is worth the difference to you, and remember it recurs every year rather than once.
Some will, so plan for it. The problem is worst when the address is spoken rather than clicked: radio, phone calls, networking events, anything read aloud. If the matching .com is free and affordable, register it and redirect it to your .company for a few pounds a year, which closes the hole. If it is gone, put the full address in writing wherever you can and expect to repeat it.
Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital, has operated it since the extension was delegated on 12 December 2013. Binky Moon holds a large portfolio from that launch programme, which is why the same policies, reserved name rules and trademark blocking service apply across .company, .group, .ltd and a few hundred others. IANA is the authoritative record of who the operator is, rather than whatever a reseller states.
Yes. You will need the authorisation code from your current registrar, and the domain must be unlocked and more than 60 days old. Expect a few days rather than the near-instant IPS tag change a .uk domain gets, because it runs through the standard gTLD process with its acknowledgement window. Your existing registration period carries over and the transfer adds a year on top.
Included with Your .company 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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