.exchange Domain
Where Value Changes Hands
Register your .exchange domain from just £33.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .exchange domain?
The .exchange domain works for businesses built around trading, swapping, and marketplace dynamics. Cryptocurrency exchanges, foreign currency platforms, commodity trading desks, and barter networks all share a common function: facilitating exchange. The domain describes that function with zero ambiguity.
Who should register .exchange?
Cryptocurrency exchanges, forex platforms, commodity traders, and barter network operators.
Why choose .exchange?
- Describes the core business function
- Works for crypto, forex, and commodities
- Professional trading identity
- Clear and unambiguous
Who runs .exchange, and since when
Registry data from the .exchange 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, with no financial licence or regulatory approval required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £33.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .exchange means for a regulated trading business
Every extension has a policy page nobody reads. On this one it is worth ten minutes, because .exchange attracts the two things a registry polices hardest: money and impersonation. Crypto platforms, foreign exchange brokers and commodity desks all fit the word, and so do the phishing sites built to look exactly like them. Identity Digital, which runs the extension through Binky Moon, reserves broad powers over any name in its portfolio for that reason.
For a legitimate operator that is protection rather than risk. A lookalike domain built to harvest logins from your customers can be suspended by the registry rather than only fought through a dispute procedure. It also means your own registration record needs to be accurate and kept current, because inaccurate registrant data is one of the listed grounds on which the registry can act.
What the extension does not do is imply any authorisation. There is no financial licence to produce, no FCA reference to supply and no regulator involved anywhere in the registration. Anyone can buy one. A customer reading the address learns what the business claims to do, not that it is permitted to do it, and that gap is worth closing on the site itself with your firm reference number and regulatory status shown plainly.
The word is also broader than crypto. Skill exchanges, book exchanges, telephone exchanges and student exchange programmes all read naturally with it and carry none of the trust baggage. Delegated in April 2014, originally under a company called Spring Falls, LLC, and consolidated into Binky Moon in March 2018.
Identity Digital reserves the right, at its sole discretion and at any time and without limitation, to deny, suspend, cancel, redirect, or transfer any registration or transaction, or place any domain name(s) on registry lock, hold, or similar status as it determines necessary or appropriate
What that means if you are buying one
That is a registry saying it will act without going anywhere near a court. For a trading platform it cuts both ways. The same power that takes down a lookalike domain harvesting your customers applies to yours, and one of the listed grounds is registrant data that is not accurate or up to date. Keep the record current and the renewal card valid.
Is .exchange the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.exchange works well if
- The business is literally an exchange: currency, commodities, crypto or an asset marketplace where value changes hands between parties.
- You want the address to describe the mechanism rather than the brand, so a counterparty or partner reads it correctly first time.
- You run a non-financial exchange, a skills swap, a book exchange or a student exchange programme, where the word is accurate and carries none of the finance baggage.
- Your .com is held by an unrelated firm and a hyphenated alternative would look less trustworthy in your sector, not more.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a regulated firm whose customers need reassurance. The extension implies no licence and no oversight, and a cautious customer may read a newer extension as less established than a .co.uk or .com.
- You are not actually an exchange. The word is specific, and using it loosely invites questions from customers and, in financial services, from a regulator.
- Cost matters. This runs at several times a .co.uk every year, and in a sector where you will also want defensive registrations, that multiplies fast.
A UK-regulated firm selling to UK customers? A .co.uk is the more reassuring address and leaves budget for defensive registrations. See .co.uk pricing.
.exchange vs .com: which should you register?
In financial services this is a trust question before it is a naming question.
A .com is what a cautious customer expects, and caution is the default state of anybody about to move money. It has been in the root zone since 1985, needs no explanation to anyone and will never be mistaken for something disposable. The cost is availability: the good exchange names went a very long time ago.
A .exchange is precise where .com is neutral, and it is available where .com is not. For a non-financial exchange that is an easy call to make. For a platform handling customer money, weigh the clarity against the fact that some customers will read an unfamiliar extension with suspicion whether that is fair or not, and that suspicion grows with the amount of money involved.
| .exchange | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Regulatory meaning | None, no licence checked | None |
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 1985 |
| Customer familiarity | Low outside the sector | Universal |
| Name availability | Good | Very poor in this sector |
| Annual cost | Several times higher | Lower |
.exchange domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .exchange domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. There is no financial licence to produce, no FCA reference to supply and no regulator involved in the registration at all. .exchange is an ordinary generic extension open to anyone anywhere. Understand that from both sides: registration is quick and nothing hinges on your authorisation status, but the address gives your customers no evidence you are authorised either. Put your regulatory status on the site instead.
No, and the non-financial uses are the quieter half of it. Skill exchanges, book exchanges, student exchange programmes, telephone exchanges and swap marketplaces all read naturally with the word and carry none of the trust questions that come attached to crypto and forex. If your exchange has nothing to do with money, this extension does its job cleanly and the annual price is the only thing left to weigh.
Yes, under its published acceptable use policy. Identity Digital reserves the right to deny, suspend, cancel, redirect or transfer any registration, or place it on registry lock, for reasons including abuse, legal requirements and registrant data that is not accurate or kept up to date. That power is aimed at phishing and fraud rather than at ordinary businesses, but the data accuracy clause applies to every holder. Keep your registrant details current.
For most customers it reads as less established than a .com or a .co.uk, and that gap is worth knowing before you buy. People moving money default to caution and treat an unfamiliar extension as a reason to look twice. The clarity of the word does not fully offset that. If you are UK-regulated and selling to UK customers, a .co.uk carries both familiarity and a local search signal, at a fraction of the annual price.
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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