.fm Domain
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What is a .fm domain?
The .fm domain is technically the country code for the Federated States of Micronesia, but it's been widely adopted by radio stations, podcast networks, and music streaming services. The "FM" association with radio broadcasting makes it one of the most naturally branded ccTLDs on the internet. If your business involves audio content of any kind, .fm is the obvious choice.
Who should register .fm?
Radio stations, podcast networks, music streaming services, and audio content creators.
Why choose .fm?
- Instant radio and audio association
- Adopted by major podcast platforms
- Short and universally understood
- One of the best-branded ccTLDs available
Who runs .fm, and since when
Registry data from the .fm 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
- Country-code (ccTLD)
- Registry operator
- FSM Telecommunications Corporation
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 1995
- Delegated 19 April 1995
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no connection to Micronesia required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £84.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
- Transfer in
- £84.99
- Adds a year to whatever is left on the domain
Why podcasting adopted a Pacific country code
The .fm domain is the country code for the Federated States of Micronesia and it entered the root zone on 19 April 1995. IANA records FSM Telecommunications Corporation in Kolonia, Pohnpei as the manager, but the commercial side has run out of San Francisco under BRS Media since the start, which is why the registry site is dot.fm rather than anything carrying the country's name.
The registry's own terms are short and open. Names go on a first come, first served basis and nothing in them asks where you are or what you broadcast. That is what let radio move in, then streaming, then podcasting. Last.fm has been at its address since the music-tracking era, and podcast hosts Fireside and Transistor both serve their sites from a .fm today.
Here is the part a registrar tends to leave out. Anchor.fm was the largest podcast platform on the extension, and since Spotify acquired it the address redirects to creators.spotify.com. That is the usual fate of a vanity country code once a company is absorbed into a bigger group: it survives as a redirect rather than as the front door. Worth knowing before you commit to it on printed material with a long life.
Cost is the other thing to weigh, and it is the real objection. At the price on this page a .fm runs at roughly eight times a .co.uk, every year, for as long as the business exists. The registry also sells .radio.fm and .radio.am as third-level names at a fraction of a full .fm, so if the word radio is in your name anyway, price both before you decide.
Is .fm the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.fm works well if
- You publish audio: a station, a podcast network, a show archive. The extension names the medium before anyone reads a word of the page.
- The name reads as a phrase across the dot, so the show title sits on the left and .fm finishes the thought.
- Your listeners are international and you would rather the address carried no country signal, even though it is technically a country code.
- You already hold the .co.uk or .com and want a short, audio-facing address to sit beside it and point at the same site.
Look elsewhere if
- Price. This is one of the dearest extensions we sell, around eight times a .co.uk, and it is an annual bill rather than a one-off.
- You need one permanent address. Anchor.fm was the biggest name here and now redirects to a Spotify .com, which is how these things usually end.
- Your customers are local. Nothing about .fm helps you in Google UK results, and a .co.uk carries a UK signal that it cannot.
Starting a podcast on a budget? A .co.uk costs a fraction of this, and nobody has ever failed to find a show because of the extension. See .co.uk pricing.
.fm vs .tv: which should you register?
Both are small-nation country codes that the media industry adopted for what the letters happen to spell. Tuvalu's .tv went into the root zone in March 1996, eleven months after .fm, and is managed by Tuvalu's Ministry of Transport, Energy, Communications and Innovation.
The split is medium and money. .fm reads as audio: radio, podcasting, music. .tv reads as moving pictures, and it is far cheaper on our price list, at well under half a .fm. There is also a documented search difference in .tv's favour. Google's guidance on multi-regional sites names .tv, alongside .me, as a vanity country code it treats as generic rather than country-targeted. Google makes no equivalent published statement about .fm that we can point you at, so plan on the safe assumption and do not lean on .fm for UK search either way.
If the thing you make is heard rather than watched, .fm is worth the difference. If it is watched, .tv costs less and says the right thing.
| .fm | .tv | |
|---|---|---|
| Country behind it | Federated States of Micronesia | Tuvalu |
| In the root zone since | 1995 | 1996 |
| Reads as | Radio, podcasts, audio | Television and video |
| Annual cost | More than twice a .tv | Mid-range |
| Google treats it as | No published statement | Generic, stated in Google's own guidance |
.fm domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .fm domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The dotFM terms register names on a first come, first served basis with no residency test, no local contact and no documents to supply. That openness is the reason the extension spread far outside its territory in the first place. You will get the same registration whether you are in Kettering or Kolonia, and the only real constraints are the trademark dispute rules, which are the standard UDRP ones every extension uses.
The registry sets it that way, and demand from broadcasters and podcasters has held it there for years. The published price on dotFM's own site is close to what resellers charge, so this is wholesale cost rather than registrar markup. Technically you are getting nothing extra: the DNS records, the DNSSEC support and the mail routing are identical to a £9.99 .co.uk. You are paying for what the two letters say to a listener.
Yes, considerably, if the word radio belongs in your name anyway. The registry sells .radio.fm and .radio.am as third-level names at a fraction of a full .fm, so yourstation.radio.fm costs far less each year than yourstation.fm. The trade-off is length and the extra dot, which makes it harder to read out and easier to mistype. Selected premium names in that space carry their own higher prices, so check the exact name rather than the headline figure.
Yes. You will need the authorisation code from your current registrar, the domain unlocked, and it must be outside the first 60 days of registration. A .fm transfer takes anywhere from a few hours to seven days, unlike a .uk, which moves near instantly because it is only an IPS tag change. Your existing registration period carries over and the transfer adds a year on top of it.
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