.email Domain
A Domain Dedicated to the Inbox
Register your .email domain from just £27.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .email domain?
The .email domain suits email marketing platforms, newsletter services, and email hosting providers. It also works for businesses that want a dedicated web address for their email-related services or contact portal. At five letters, it's concise enough for everyday use and clear enough to need zero explanation.
Who should register .email?
Email marketing platforms, newsletter services, email hosting providers, and contact portals.
Why choose .email?
- Clear and instantly understood
- Perfect for email service providers
- Works as a contact-focused subdomain
- Five letters, no ambiguity
Who runs .email, and since when
Registry data from the .email 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
- 2013
- Delegated 19 December 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no verification and no local presence rule
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £27.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .email domain does and does not do
Start with what the name implies and does not deliver. A .email domain does not give you email. It is an ordinary domain that happens to end in the word, and it needs the same MX records and the same mailbox behind it as any other address. The reverse matters more: every domain you already own can do email. If all you want is hello@yourbusiness, you do not need this extension, and with us you do not need to buy the mailbox either, because every domain we register includes email forwarding and one free 10GB mailbox.
So what is it for? Two jobs, and both are real. The first is a company whose product is email itself: a newsletter platform, a sending service, a filtering or archiving tool, a mailbox host. There the word after the dot names the category, in the way .cloud does for infrastructure. The second is separation. Businesses that send a lot of marketing mail often keep it clear of the domain their invoices and password resets leave from, so a reputation problem on one stream does not drag the other into the junk folder.
Before you move any sending onto it
Be clear-eyed about that second job. A brand new domain has no sending reputation at all, which is a worse starting position than a mediocre one. Receiving systems weigh how long they have been seeing mail from a name, and a sudden run of campaign email from a domain registered last Tuesday is close to the pattern their filters exist to catch. Get SPF, DKIM and DMARC in place before the first send rather than after the first bounce report, and bring the volume up gradually. Plenty of senders get the same isolation from a sub-domain of the domain they already use, which starts from a better position.
The registry is Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital, on an agreement signed with ICANN on 31 October 2013, which makes .email one of the earlier new generic extensions rather than a recent arrival. Anyone may register one. The policy worth reading is Identity Digital's acceptable use policy, which lists spam, meaning unsolicited bulk messaging, among the abuses for which it may deny, suspend, cancel, redirect or transfer a domain at its own discretion. That applies across every extension the group runs, but a domain ending in the word email is a poor place to test where the line sits.
Our steer: if email is the product, buy it. If what you actually want is a smarter contact address, you already own a domain that will do it, and the money goes further elsewhere.
Is .email the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.email works well if
- Email is your product. You run a newsletter platform, a sending service, a filtering tool or a mailbox host, and the extension names the category for you.
- You want a separate domain for bulk or marketing mail, kept away from the one your invoices and password resets go out on.
- You are building a contact or support portal and want an address that needs no explanation on a printed form or a poster.
- Your main domain is a long compound and you want a short second address to give out verbally, redirecting to the real site.
Look elsewhere if
- You only want a professional business address. Any domain does that, and every domain we register already includes forwarding and a free 10GB mailbox.
- You will be reading the address aloud a lot. "At acme dot email" invites the question "is that the email address or the website" every single time.
- You want to move your main sending onto it quickly. A new domain starts with no sending reputation and needs its volume raised slowly.
- You sell to UK consumers. This extension gives Google no country signal, so a .co.uk does more for local visibility and costs far less each year.
Just want a smarter address to give out? The domain you already own will do it, and a .co.uk costs a fraction of this one. See .co.uk pricing.
.email vs .com: which should you register?
Almost nobody chooses between these two, which is the useful thing to say about the pairing. A .com is a primary address: the thing on the sign, the invoice and the van. A .email is a functional second domain that does one job well and looks odd doing anything else. Buying the .email instead of the .com is a decision very few businesses should make.
The exception is the company whose product is email, where the extension carries the same weight a .com would and says more. Everybody else is really asking whether to add one, and the answer turns on whether you have a second job for it: a sending domain kept apart from your billing domain, a contact portal, a short address to read out on the phone.
One thing the .com does better than any argument about branding: it survives being misheard. Say a .email address to somebody in a hurry and a good proportion of them will write down .com anyway, then wonder why nothing arrives.
| .com | ||
|---|---|---|
| What it signals | Email is the product or the purpose | General business, no signal |
| Typical role | A second, functional domain | The primary address |
| Said out loud | Invites a clarifying question | Understood first time |
| Registry | Binky Moon, part of Identity Digital | Verisign |
| In the root zone since | 2013 | 1985 |
| Annual cost | Well above a .com | Low |
.email domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .email domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. It is an ordinary domain that happens to end in the word, and it needs MX records and a mailbox behind it exactly like any other. Nothing about the extension changes how mail is delivered. The useful half of that answer is the other way round: the domain you already own can do email too, so if a working business address is all you are after, you do not need to buy anything new at all.
You can, and it will work perfectly well technically, but it puzzles people. A visitor who reads acme.email in a search result expects a page about email, and a company selling kitchen units on that address spends a moment of every visit explaining itself. Keep it for the job the word describes. If email is not your product, the extension is doing your positioning a disservice in exchange for nothing.
No more than mail from any other extension. Filters judge the sending domain's reputation, its authentication records and its history, and the letters after the final dot are not a scoring factor on their own. What does hurt is newness: any domain registered last month has no history for a receiving server to trust. Set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC before the first campaign and raise your volume gradually, whatever extension you are sending from.
Some still do. Address validation written before the new extensions arrived often allows only two to four characters after the final dot, and .email has five. The form rejects a perfectly valid address and usually blames the person typing it. This is far less common than it was, and it has not vanished. Test the address against your own sign-up forms, your accounting software and any supplier portal you depend on before you commit to it.
Anyone, anywhere. Binky Moon runs .email under a standard, non-sponsored agreement with ICANN signed on 31 October 2013, so there is no eligibility rule, no verification step and no local presence requirement. You do not need to be an email company. The one condition attached to it is behavioural rather than administrative: Identity Digital's acceptable use policy lets it suspend or cancel a domain used for spam, across every extension in its portfolio.
It is, if the word is doing a job. For an email product it names the category in five letters and saves you a paragraph of explanation. For everybody else it is a second domain costing well above a .co.uk every year to solve a problem the domain you already own has solved since the day you registered it. Work out what the address is for before you work out whether the price is fair.
Included with Your .email 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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