.earth Domain
Think Global with .earth
Register your .earth domain from just £21.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .earth domain?
The .earth domain is for organisations with a planetary perspective. Environmental charities, sustainability consultancies, climate research groups, and global community projects all benefit from a domain that says "this is bigger than one country". It carries a sense of shared responsibility.
Who should register .earth?
Environmental charities, sustainability consultancies, climate research groups, and global development organisations.
Why choose .earth?
- Communicates global perspective
- Strong environmental association
- Five letters with powerful meaning
- Works for science and advocacy
Who runs .earth, and since when
Registry data from the .earth 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
- Interlink Systems Innovation Institute K.K.
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2015
- Delegated 16 April 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with a voluntary pledge written into the registration terms
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £21.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The pledge written into every .earth registration
Registering a .earth domain puts you in an unusual position: you agree to something. The registry terms and conditions state that by registering a name, "Registrants voluntarily pledge to become ambassadors for Earth and do away with actions that harm Earth and its inhabitants". Nobody checks. There's no application, no evidence to file and no eligibility test. But the wording sits in the contract you accept at the checkout, and the same document bars using a .earth to display pornographic, vulgar or highly objectionable content, which is a tighter content rule than most extensions carry.
The registry is Japanese. Interlink Systems Innovation Institute K.K., a Tokyo subsidiary of Interlink Co., Ltd., took over the delegation in July 2022, and GoDaddy Registry runs the technical back end. Labels have to be at least three characters; one and two character names are held back for the registry to release when it chooses.
Treat it as a statement domain rather than a primary address. It says something about your purpose before a visitor reads a word, and it costs roughly a third of what a .eco does. What it can't do is carry a UK signal in search, so if your supporters are British, keep the .co.uk as the address you print.
Is .earth the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.earth works well if
- You run an environmental, climate or conservation project and want the purpose visible in the address before anyone reads your strapline.
- Your work crosses borders, so a national extension would misrepresent it. Earth is the one word no country owns.
- The .eco you wanted is out of budget. A .earth costs about a third as much and asks nothing of you at registration.
Look elsewhere if
- Most of your visitors search from the UK. Google reads .earth as a generic extension, so it adds nothing to local visibility that a .co.uk would.
- You want the pledge to mean something. It is unverified and unenforced, so a .earth proves nothing about your record. .eco checks; .earth does not.
- It renews at more than double a .co.uk every year, and a domain bill runs for as long as the project does.
Fundraising mainly from UK supporters? Register the .co.uk as your main address and point the .earth at it. See .co.uk pricing.
.earth vs .eco: which should you register?
These two look interchangeable and aren't. A .eco cannot be used at all until the registrant has taken the registry pledge and filled in an environmental profile, and Big Room audits a proportion of those profiles afterwards. A .earth carries a pledge in its terms that nobody verifies, so it's quicker to start with and proves less once you have it.
Price settles it for a lot of buyers, because .eco sits in premium territory and .earth does not. Want the credential? Pay for .eco and complete the profile properly. Want the word? .earth is the cheaper way to say it, and there is no shame in that as long as you don't present it as verification.
.earth domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .earth domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyAnyone. The registry states plainly that there are no restrictions on who can register, with no residency test, no sector check and no documents to file. What you do agree to is the registration terms, which include a voluntary pledge to act as an ambassador for Earth and a ban on using the domain for pornographic, vulgar or highly objectionable content. Neither is checked before registration, but both sit in the contract you accept when you order.
A .eco carries more weight, because somebody checks. Every .eco is held on server hold until the registrant takes a pledge and completes an environmental profile, and the registry audits a share of those profiles and can suspend a domain whose profile goes stale. .earth asks for none of that. For a charity that already publishes its environmental record, .eco is the stronger signal. For a project that wants a global word at a sensible price, .earth does the job for about a third of the cost.
It does not hurt them, and it does not help either. Google treats .earth as a generic extension with no country attached, so it carries none of the UK signal a .co.uk gives you in Google UK results. If most of your traffic comes from British searchers, that is a real cost rather than a technical one. The usual answer is to run the .co.uk as your primary address and redirect the .earth to it, which keeps the local signal and the message.
Included with Your .earth 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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