.democrat Domain
A Domain for Democratic Values
Register your .democrat domain from just £30.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .democrat domain?
The .democrat domain gives a platform to democratic political organisations, campaign groups, and civic engagement initiatives. It signals values rather than party affiliation (though parties use it too). Voter registration drives, debate platforms, and democracy advocacy groups find it relevant.
Who should register .democrat?
Political campaign groups, voter registration initiatives, civic engagement platforms, and democracy advocacy organisations.
Why choose .democrat?
- Signals democratic values clearly
- Works for campaigns and advocacy
- Memorable for political branding
- Distinct from generic .org or .com
Who runs .democrat, and since when
Registry data from the .democrat 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
- Dog Beach, 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 party membership or political test
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £30.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .democrat reads as American to UK voters
The same eight letters mean two different things depending on which side of the Atlantic you are standing. In the United States, Democrat is a party, and the registry that runs this extension also runs .republican, which makes the framing hard to miss. In Britain there is no party called the Democrats: the nearest is the Liberal Democrats, and "democrat" on its own is just a word about believing in democracy.
That gap is the single most useful thing to know before buying one. A British campaign group, civic education charity or voter registration project that registers a .democrat will read as American to a good share of its own audience, and looking foreign is an awkward start for anything asking people to engage with local politics.
Where it does work is where the values reading is the point and the audience is international, or where a US-facing organisation wants an unmistakable label. It is also cheap enough to hold defensively, which matters more in politics than in most sectors: an opponent registering the obvious variant of your name is a cheaper attack than most, and a registration you never use is an easy way to close it off.
Is .democrat the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.democrat works well if
- You are a US-facing political organisation where the party reading is exactly what you want the address to say.
- You run democracy education or civic engagement work for an international audience, and the values reading carries across borders.
- You are protecting a campaign name defensively, because in politics an opponent registering the obvious variant is a cheap and effective nuisance.
Look elsewhere if
- You campaign in Britain. UK voters read "democrat" as American, and a foreign-looking address undercuts a local political message before anyone reads it.
- You need the address to look official. Anyone can register one, so it carries no endorsement from any party or electoral body.
- Your traffic comes from UK searches. A .uk or .org.uk carries a geographic signal that a generic ending like this one does not.
A UK campaign or civic group is better on an extension British voters read as local. See .uk pricing.
.democrat vs .uk: which should you register?
For anything aimed at British voters this is close to one-sided. A .uk is short, costs a fraction as much, is read by Google as a UK site, and tells a visitor in two letters that the organisation is theirs rather than somebody else's. Transfers are near instant because Nominet handles them as an IPS tag change, which is worth having during a campaign when nothing can wait a week.
The .democrat only makes sense when the word itself is the message and the audience is not exclusively British: an international democracy programme, a US-facing organisation, or a campaign that has deliberately borrowed the framing. Even then, the pattern that gives up least is a .uk carrying the site and the email, with the .democrat registered alongside and pointed at it so nobody else can use it against you.
.democrat domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .democrat domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. There is no eligibility requirement, no membership check and no connection to any party, in the United States or anywhere else. The registry agreement is a standard commercial one and the registry also operates .republican on the same terms. Anyone can register either. That openness is worth remembering in both directions: it is why you can buy one freely, and why nobody should read an opponent's .democrat address as evidence of official party backing.
Rarely. British voters do not have a party called the Democrats, so the word imports an American political framing that a local campaign has to work against rather than with. Alongside that, a generic extension gives up the UK signal that .uk and .org.uk carry in search. If the values reading really matters to your message, hold the .democrat as a secondary address and put the campaign itself on something British voters recognise instantly.
It is one of the cheaper forms of insurance in politics. Registering the obvious variant of an opponent's name is a low-effort tactic, and an unused registration in your own hands closes it off for the price of a domain. Work out which endings a hostile registrant would actually reach for, register those, and point them at your real site. There is no need to buy dozens: two or three obvious ones cover most of the risk, and we can advise on which.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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