.events Domain
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Register your .events domain from just £37.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .events domain?
The .events domain is purpose-built for the events industry, from corporate conferences to wedding planning. It provides organisers, venues, and event service providers with an address that communicates exactly what they do.
Who should register .events?
Event planners, conference organisers, venues, and event management companies.
Why choose .events?
- Purpose-built for event professionals
- Ideal for bookings and listings
- Covers all event types
- Inviting and action-oriented
Who runs .events, and since when
Registry data from the .events 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, with no requirement to be an organiser, venue or ticketing firm
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £37.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The renewal trap with a one-off .events domain
Events end. Domains renew. That mismatch is the thing to plan for on this extension, and almost nobody does. A conference domain bought for one year gets used hard for six months, sits idle for six more, then either renews quietly on a card nobody checks or lapses and is picked up by somebody who now owns the address printed on last year's programme, the delegate emails and every social post about it.
There are two sensible patterns. Buy one permanent .events domain for the organisation and put each year behind a path, so yourfirm.events/2027/ replaces a new registration every year. Or accept that a one-off event domain is a disposable asset, and diarise letting it go on purpose rather than by accident. What you should not do is register a new one per event and leave the old ones drifting on auto-renew.
On the extension itself: delegated in January 2014, originally under a company named Pioneer Maple, LLC, and moved into Identity Digital through Binky Moon in the March 2018 consolidation. Anyone can register one, with no proof of being an organiser, a venue or a ticketing operator, and no trade body membership involved.
The word does a lot of work. Somebody who sees an address ending in .events on a poster knows what sits on the other side of it, which is more than a .com tells them. That is the real argument for paying several times a .co.uk: not search, not credibility, but a printed address a stranger understands at a glance.
Is .events the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.events works well if
- You are an organiser, venue or festival with a name people already know, and the extension makes a printed address self-explanatory.
- You want one permanent address for a recurring event, with each year as a path rather than a fresh domain and a fresh set of links.
- You run a corporate events arm that needs its own identity, separate from a parent company site selling something else.
- Your marketing is heavily offline, on posters, tickets, banners and programmes, where the extension is doing real explanatory work.
Look elsewhere if
- The event happens once. You will still be paying for the domain years after the last delegate went home, unless you diarise letting it lapse.
- Your business does more than events. A visitor arriving at a .events address expects dates and listings, and anything else reads as a mismatch.
- You depend on local search for bookings. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that .events does not, at a fraction of the annual price.
One event, one year? Put it on a path or a subdomain of the domain you already own and avoid the annual bill entirely. See .co.uk pricing.
.events vs .com: which should you register?
The choice here is not really about which extension is better. It is about how long the address has to live.
A .com is the safe permanent home. The organisation usually outlives any individual event, and a .com carries whatever authority the site builds over the years without ever needing to be explained. It is cheaper each year and shorter to type into the bargain.
A .events is doing a different job. It is a signpost, and it is at its best on something printed, where a stranger reads the address once and knows immediately what it is. Plenty of organisers end up holding both: the .com as the organisation, the .events pointed at the programme. If you are only buying one, and the organisation is the lasting thing, buy the .com.
| .events | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Best used as | A signpost on printed material | The permanent home |
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 1985 |
| Who may register | Anyone, no organiser status needed | Anyone |
| Name availability | Good | Poor for event names |
| Annual cost | Higher | Lower |
.events domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .events domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyUsually not. A new domain per event starts from nothing in search every time, splits your links across addresses nobody visits again, and leaves you managing a growing pile of renewals. One permanent .events with each year on a path keeps the links, the rankings and the email working, and costs one renewal instead of five. The exception is a one-off with a sponsor or partner brand that has to own the address itself.
No. There is no eligibility test, no proof of being an organiser, venue or ticketing operator, and no trade body membership to show. .events is an ordinary generic extension run by Identity Digital, open to anyone anywhere for any purpose. The registry's acceptable use policy applies to abuse, and certain names are held back as reserved or premium, but neither of those is an eligibility rule.
It keeps renewing until you stop paying, which is the part that catches people out. Domains do not expire when the event does. If you let it lapse, anyone can register it once it drops, including somebody who wants the traffic from the address printed on last year's tickets and emails. Decide at the outset whether the domain is permanent or disposable, and if it is disposable, put a note in the calendar rather than leaving it to a card expiry.
It is neutral for ranking and useful for clicks. Google does not read the word in a generic extension as a keyword, so .events will not help you rank for event searches. What decides visibility for listings is structured data on each event, accurate dates and venue details, and the authority of the domain hosting them. That last one argues for keeping events on an established domain rather than moving them onto a brand new one.
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DNS Management
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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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