.cruises Domain
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Register your .cruises domain from just £45.49/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .cruises domain?
The .cruises domain is built for cruise lines, travel agents selling cruise packages, and cruise review sites. Cruise holidays are a high-value booking, and passengers start their research online. A .cruises address tells them they've found a specialist, not a generalist travel site with a cruise tab buried in the nav.
Who should register .cruises?
Cruise lines, specialist cruise travel agents, cruise review bloggers, and river cruise operators.
Why choose .cruises?
- Targets a high-value travel niche
- Signals specialist cruise knowledge
- Builds confidence for big-ticket bookings
- Works for ocean and river cruises
Who runs .cruises, and since when
Registry data from the .cruises 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 30 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide; no travel trade membership or licence is required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £45.49 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .cruises costs a cruise agent over ten years
A .cruises domain is £45.49 a year. Over the ten years a settled travel business might reasonably expect to keep trading, that is roughly £455, against around £100 for the same decade on a .co.uk. Domains are one of the few costs in a business that never stop, and this one sits near the top of the travel extensions we sell.
What the money buys is a category word in the address, on a purchase that is unusually trust-sensitive. Cruise deposits run into four figures and the customer commits months ahead, which is exactly the moment when an unfamiliar web address becomes friction rather than personality. What reassures a cruise buyer is an ABTA number, an ATOL where flights are included, a landline and a real trading address. The extension does not appear on that list.
The plural matters as well. Binky Moon delegated .cruises on 30 January 2014, and the names that work best on it read as catalogues: river.cruises, lastminute.cruises, antarctic.cruises. A single operator with a singular brand fits it less comfortably than a comparison site does.
Is .cruises the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.cruises works well if
- You run a listing, comparison or review site where the plural reads naturally and the address describes a whole catalogue.
- You specialise. A general agency with a cruise tab gains nothing here, but an agency selling only cruises can put that in the address.
- You are launching a campaign or a sub-brand around one route or region and want a memorable address rather than a folder on the main site.
Look elsewhere if
- Price. £45.49 a year against £9.99 for a .co.uk makes this one of the dearer extensions on the site, and it renews for as long as you trade.
- Your customers are British and find you through search. Google reads .co.uk as a UK country signal; .cruises is generic and carries none.
- You are asking a stranger for a four-figure deposit. On that kind of purchase an unfamiliar extension raises a question you then have to spend the call answering.
Selling cruises to UK customers? Put the .co.uk in the address bar and the ABTA number in the header. See .co.uk pricing.
.cruises vs .co.uk: which should you register?
One of these carries a country signal and costs £9.99. The other carries a category word and costs £45.49. Google's guidance is that a country-code extension is a strong signal a site is meant for that country, and that everything else in the root zone is treated as generic.
For a UK cruise agency taking UK bookings the .co.uk is the address of record, without much argument. A .cruises earns a place beside it as a memorable second address for print, radio or a specialist microsite, redirected to the same website. If the budget only stretches to one domain, it is not this one.
.cruises domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .cruises domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. .cruises is an open Binky Moon extension with no ABTA membership check, no ATOL check and no trade verification of any kind. Anyone anywhere can register one. That also means the extension is not a credential and a customer should not read it as one. If you are selling cruise holidays that include flights, the licensing you actually need comes from the Civil Aviation Authority under the ATOL Regulations, and it is your ATOL number rather than your domain that tells a buyer their money is protected.
It is neutral, and neutral is worse than it sounds for a UK business. Google treats every new extension as generic, so .cruises gets no ranking credit for the word and no country targeting either. A .co.uk on the same content carries a UK signal that Google describes as strong. Against national brands and the big comparison sites, the domain is not where the contest is decided anyway: itineraries, cabin detail, port guides and real photography are. Choose the extension for memorability and win the search on the pages.
For a comparison or listings site, often yes. For a single agency, usually not. The extension only starts to repay itself when the plural is accurate and the address is doing marketing work in print or on air, where a category word is easier to remember than a company name. As the sole address of a small agency it is an annual cost of four and a half times a .co.uk for a signal that does nothing for search and little for trust. Register the .co.uk and add this later if the marketing calls for it.
Included with Your .cruises 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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