.exposed Domain
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Register your .exposed domain from just £23.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .exposed domain?
The .exposed domain is for investigative journalism platforms, whistleblower resources, transparency campaigns, and data leak reporting sites. It carries a sense of revelation. Review sites that expose poor business practices and consumer watchdog platforms also use it to signal that hidden information is being made public.
Who should register .exposed?
Investigative journalism outlets, whistleblower platforms, consumer watchdog sites, and transparency campaigns.
Why choose .exposed?
- Carries a strong sense of revelation
- Bold and attention-grabbing
- Ideal for investigative content
- Sets the tone before visitors arrive
Who runs .exposed, and since when
Registry data from the .exposed 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 worldwide, with no eligibility check and no documentation
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £23.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What the UDRP means for a .exposed domain
The obvious use of an .exposed domain is also the risky one. Put a company name in front of it and you have built an accusation into the address, and that address is subject to the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy exactly like any other generic extension. A UDRP complaint doesn't ask whether your criticism is fair. It asks whether the name is confusingly similar to a trademark, whether you have a legitimate interest in it, and whether you registered it in bad faith. Criticism sites do win those cases. They also lose them, and losing means the domain transfers to the complainant.
There is a second obstacle that rarely gets mentioned. Identity Digital, which operates .exposed through Binky Moon, sells a Domains Protected Marks List block. One purchase lets a trademark owner block a matching label across its entire portfolio, so the name you had in mind may simply refuse to register, with no explanation offered at the checkout.
Where it earns its keep is on your own material: an investigation series, a public data project, a transparency index carrying your own brand rather than somebody else's. It reached the root zone on 30 January 2014, early in the programme, and short names in it have not all gone.
Is .exposed the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.exposed works well if
- You publish investigations under your own masthead and want a home for the series that says what it is at a glance.
- You run a transparency index, a public register or a data project where the whole point is that something hidden is now visible.
- The name you want is your own brand, so no trademark holder has an interest in it and no dispute is coming.
Look elsewhere if
- The name you want is somebody else. That is a UDRP complaint waiting to happen, and it may already be blocked across the Identity Digital portfolio.
- You need the address to read as measured. .exposed announces a verdict before a reader sees a single fact, which is the wrong tone for careful reporting.
- Your readers are UK-based and find you through Google. A .co.uk carries a local signal that .exposed does not, at less than half the annual cost.
Reporting for a UK audience? A .co.uk reads as neutral and does more for local search. See .co.uk pricing.
.exposed vs .news: which should you register?
.news and .exposed are the two extensions an investigative outlet usually shortlists, and they say opposite things. .news is neutral. It tells a reader what the site is and nothing at all about the conclusion. .exposed tells them the conclusion before they arrive.
That works for a campaign with a settled position and works against you for reporting that has to survive a legal read before publication. .exposed is the cheaper of the two per year, which is not nothing. But if the site will carry ordinary coverage alongside the investigations, .news ages better and needs less explaining to a source.
.exposed domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .exposed domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYou can try, and two things may stop you. Identity Digital sells a Domains Protected Marks List block that lets a trademark owner reserve a matching label across its whole portfolio, so the registration may fail outright. If it does succeed, the domain is still subject to the UDRP, and a complaint can have it transferred to the trademark holder. Criticism can amount to a legitimate interest under the UDRP, but that is a defence you have to argue and win, not a right you begin with.
Binky Moon, LLC, which is part of Identity Digital. The extension was delegated on 30 January 2014 to Victor Beach, LLC, one of the shell companies Donuts used during the application round, and was consolidated into Binky Moon in March 2018 along with 195 other extensions. Identity Digital policies apply, including an acceptable use policy covering harassment and abuse of individuals or groups as well as the usual malware, phishing and spam rules.
To some visitors, yes. Non-technical readers still treat anything that is not .com or .co.uk with suspicion, and .exposed adds a confrontational word on top of an unfamiliar extension. That matters most where you are asking for trust: donations, tip-offs, or a contact form that carries sensitive information. If your work depends on strangers reaching out, run the main site on a .co.uk or .com and use the .exposed for the campaign that points at it.
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