.creditcard Domain
The Domain for Card Comparison and Issuers
Register your .creditcard domain from just £136.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
This domain has registration restrictions
Anyone can register a .creditcard, but the registry agreement requires your registrar to bind you to a representation that you hold whatever authorisations and licences your sector demands, and to report it if that changes. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .creditcard domain?
The .creditcard domain is precise to the point of being self-documenting. Credit card comparison sites, issuers, rewards trackers, and financial education platforms around credit cards can all put their purpose right in the address bar. It's a long extension, yes, but that length carries clarity. Visitors know exactly what content to expect.
Who should register .creditcard?
Credit card comparison sites, card issuers, rewards tracking platforms, and consumer finance educators.
Why choose .creditcard?
- Self-explanatory at any length
- Targets a high-intent search audience
- Ideal for comparison and review sites
- Distinct from generic financial domains
Who runs .creditcard, and since when
Registry data from the .creditcard 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 24 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to register, but you must declare you hold any licences your sector needs
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £136.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The .creditcard licence declaration you agree to
Consumer credit was treated as a sensitive category when the 2012 round of extensions was contracted, and .creditcard carries the full set of safeguards that came with that label. Its registry agreement runs to twelve public interest commitments where an ordinary extension carries four, and one of them puts an obligation on you rather than on the registry: your registration agreement must require you to represent that you hold any authorisations, charters, licences or other credentials needed to operate in the sector the extension names.
Nobody checks that at the point of sale. It is a declaration you make and a promise the registry can act on afterwards, which is a different thing from an eligibility test, and the difference matters. See the eligibility section below for what the clauses actually say.
Set against that, this is a long extension at a high annual price. Binky Frostbite, LLC took it live in April 2014 and Binky Moon, LLC has held it since March 2018. It suits comparison and review publishers, card issuers and consumer finance educators, and suits almost nobody who is not one of those.
Who is allowed to register .creditcard?
Anyone can register a .creditcard, but the registry agreement requires your registrar to bind you to a representation that you hold whatever authorisations and licences your sector demands, and to report it if that changes.
- You declare your credentials
- Specification 11 of the .creditcard registry agreement requires registrars to include, in their registration agreements, a provision requiring a representation that the registrant possesses any necessary authorisations, charters, licences or other related credentials for participation in the sector associated with the extension. For a UK firm arranging or promoting consumer credit, that means the authorisation your activity actually requires.
- Nobody verifies it up front
- There is no document upload, no waiting period and no approval step, so a registration completes in the ordinary way. Treat the representation as a contractual promise you are making rather than a check somebody has carried out on your behalf.
- You must report changes
- The same specification requires registrants to report any material change to the validity of those authorisations or licences, so that the holder continues to meet the relevant regulatory and licensing requirements. Losing an authorisation is not a private matter between you and your regulator once you hold this extension.
- If the declaration is doubted
- Where the registry receives a complaint questioning the authenticity of a licence or credential, the agreement directs it to consult the relevant national supervisory authority. The registry operator separately reserves the right to deny, suspend, cancel or lock any registration at its discretion, so a false declaration risks the domain itself rather than only a contractual argument.
Rules taken from the .creditcard registry agreement at ICANN, Specification 11. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .creditcard the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.creditcard works well if
- You publish card comparisons, reviews or consumer finance education, and want an address that describes the subject before anyone reads a headline.
- You issue or distribute cards and hold the authorisations to say so, so the declaration in the registration agreement is one you can make without hesitation.
- You want a memorable address for a card product that sits apart from the parent brand and can be retired when the product is.
Look elsewhere if
- You cannot honestly say you hold the credentials your activity requires. The declaration is contractual, and the registry can act on a complaint about it.
- The annual fee is among the highest in this category and it renews at that level. For a side project or a test, that is a lot of money for eleven characters.
- You need the address spoken aloud. Reading out a long compound extension on a call or in a radio advert wastes seconds every single time.
Comparing cards for UK consumers on a modest budget? A .co.uk costs a fraction of this and carries a UK signal in search. See .co.uk pricing.
.creditcard vs .com: which should you register?
A .com asks nothing of you. There is no sector declaration, no reporting duty and no annual fee anywhere near this one, and it is what a nervous consumer expects to see on a page about credit. That is a strong position from which to argue against buying anything else.
What .creditcard offers in return is that the address states the subject, which is worth something to a publisher whose whole proposition is one product category. It is a poor primary address for a lender or a bank, where trust and familiarity outrank description, and a defensible one for a comparison site that lives or dies on being obviously about cards. Either way, hold the closest .com you can get and redirect it.
.creditcard domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .creditcard domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNobody checks at the point of sale, but you do have to declare it. The registry agreement requires your registrar to bind you to a representation that you hold any authorisations, charters or licences needed to participate in the sector. If your activity requires FCA authorisation, that is what the representation covers. Registration completing without a check is not evidence that you qualify, and the registry can act on a complaint later.
You are contractually required to report it. Specification 11 of the registry agreement obliges registrants to report material changes to the validity of their authorisations and licences, so that they continue to meet the relevant requirements. Separately, Identity Digital reserves the right at its discretion to deny, suspend, cancel or lock any registration. Losing an authorisation and saying nothing puts the domain, and therefore the website and the email on it, at risk.
For most buyers, yes. It is one of the priciest extensions in this category and renews at that level indefinitely, so an eleven-character descriptive address becomes a permanent line in the budget. It stacks up for a publisher whose entire business is card comparison and whose traffic justifies the outlay. For a blog, a side project or a broker with a wider product range, a .co.uk or a .com does the job for a small fraction of the cost.
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