.digital Domain
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Register your .digital domain from just £34.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .digital domain?
The .digital domain captures the essence of modern business transformation. It's a powerful choice for agencies, consultancies, and companies that operate in the digital space.
Who should register .digital?
Digital agencies, digital marketing firms, transformation consultancies, and technology companies.
Why choose .digital?
- Modern and forward-looking
- Perfect for digital agencies
- Broad yet specific appeal
- Strong professional positioning
Who runs .digital, and since when
Registry data from the .digital 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 17 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no documents to supply and no sector check
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £34.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why a .digital domain rewards a short brand name
Count the characters before you commit to this one. .digital puts seven letters after the dot, more than .com, .io and .co.uk manage between them. That arithmetic decides who it suits. On a short name it looks deliberate, because the address reads as a single phrase across the dot. On northamptonshiredigitalagency.digital it reads as a mistake nobody caught in time.
The registry of record is Binky Moon, LLC, which signed its agreement with ICANN on 6 March 2014 and is part of Identity Digital. The parent earns a mention, because Identity Digital runs its own corporate website on identity.digital rather than on a .com. A registry using its own extension for its head office proves nothing by itself, but it is more than most operators are willing to do.
There is nothing to qualify for: no documents, no local presence test, no sector check. The registry does hold names back for its own purposes, including a premium price category it can change over time, so a name you have in mind may come back priced well above the figure on this page. Ask us for the registration price and the renewal price on anything that looks unusually good, and compare the two before you commit.
The label is the category, not the difference
"Digital agency" is the most crowded self-description in British marketing, and this extension plants you squarely inside it. That cuts both ways. It states what you do in one word, which is worth something to a firm nobody has heard of yet. It also stops the name doing any work of its own, because the extension is the category and the category has thousands of members. If your positioning is "we are a digital agency", the address repeats you. If your positioning is a specific outcome for a specific kind of client, the address argues with you.
One practical thing catches people out. Address validators written years ago sometimes cap the part after the final dot at four characters, so a mailbox on a .digital domain gets refused by a sign-up form that would cheerfully accept the same person at a .com. It is rarer than it was and it has not gone away. Test your own contact form, your invoicing software and your payment provider before you print the address on anything expensive.
Our steer: buy it when the name works across the dot and you would enjoy saying it out loud. Register the .co.uk as well and redirect one to the other, because at this price you are paying a premium for a phrase, and a UK agency selling to UK clients still wants the extension Google reads as British.
Is .digital the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.digital works well if
- Your brand name finishes the phrase across the dot, so the whole address reads as one thought rather than as a name with an extension bolted on.
- You are a consultancy selling change programmes, and you want the category stated before a prospect has read a word of the page.
- The .com and the .co.uk for your name are both held by unrelated businesses, and you would rather move sideways than add a hyphen or a filler word.
- You are naming a product line or a campaign that lives under a parent brand, where a short evocative address matters more than search visibility.
Look elsewhere if
- Your business name is already long. Seven letters after the dot turn a mouthful into a paragraph, on email signatures and van livery alike.
- Most of your clients are within an hour of you. A .co.uk gives Google a UK signal that .digital cannot, and costs a fraction as much every year.
- You want the cheapest workable address. A .digital costs several times a .co.uk, and that bill lands again every year for as long as you trade.
- You expect the extension itself to set you apart. It names the category you are competing in, which is close to the opposite of standing out inside it.
A UK agency selling to UK clients? Register the .co.uk first and treat .digital as the flourish rather than the foundation. See .co.uk pricing.
.digital vs .co.uk: which should you register?
For a UK agency this is the only comparison that matters, and neither extension replaces the other. A .co.uk is a working address: cheap, understood by everyone, and read by Google as a strong signal that the site is meant for people in this country. A .digital is a positioning statement, and it is priced like one.
The gap in running cost is the part people underestimate, because a domain is not a purchase, it is a subscription with no end date. Over ten years of trading the difference between these two is real money for a small agency, and it buys you a phrase rather than a customer. That can still be the right call if the phrase is doing real work in your brand.
What most agencies should do: own the .co.uk, point the .digital at it, and use whichever reads better on the material in front of a client. The .co.uk protects your search visibility and your inbox; the .digital does the talking on a business card.
| .digital | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Registry | Binky Moon, part of Identity Digital | Nominet, the UK registry |
| Geographic signal | None | United Kingdom |
| Length after the dot | digital, seven letters | co.uk, five characters |
| Annual cost | Several times a .co.uk | Among the lowest anywhere |
| Transfer time | A few days, authorisation code needed | Near instant, an IPS tag change |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals under Nominet rules |
.digital domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .digital domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyAnyone, anywhere. Binky Moon runs .digital under a standard, non-sponsored agreement with ICANN, so there is no eligibility rule, no trading history to evidence and no documents to supply. You do not need to be a digital agency, a technology company or a UK business. The only names unavailable are those the registry has reserved, which covers its own operational names and a premium price category it can adjust over time.
It is neutral on ranking and weaker than a .co.uk on geography. Google says a country-code extension gives a strong signal that a site is intended for a particular country, while a generic extension needs its geographic targeting set explicitly by other means. Having the word "digital" after the dot does not rank you for digital queries. If most of your clients are British, that missing country signal is the one real cost of choosing this over a .co.uk.
It costs several times a .co.uk, and that price repeats every year for as long as you keep the name. For a one-person consultancy that is a real line in the accounts, set against an extension that would do the same job for a fraction as much. The honest test is whether the name only works with .digital after it. If it reads perfectly well on a .co.uk, buy the .co.uk and spend the difference on something that brings work in.
It carries the flavour of the era that named it, which is a risk worth naming out loud. "Digital" as a business label belongs to a particular stretch of the 2010s and 2020s, and words that describe a moment tend to age faster than words that describe a thing. A name that works as a phrase, where "digital" is part of what you are saying rather than a badge, ages better than one where the extension is doing the positioning on its own.
They work exactly as they would anywhere else, with one nuisance to watch for. Mail servers have never cared how long an extension is, but sign-up forms written years ago sometimes validate addresses with a rule that allows only two to four characters after the final dot, and .digital has seven. That form rejects your address and blames you for it. Test your own contact form and any third-party service you rely on before rolling the address out.
Yes. Unlock the domain at your current registrar, ask them for the authorisation code, and start the transfer with us. It has to be more than 60 days past its registration or its last transfer, which is an ICANN rule rather than ours. Expect a few days rather than minutes: only .uk domains move almost immediately, because those are an IPS tag change at Nominet rather than a full registrar transfer.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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