.global Domain
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Register your .global domain from just £76.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .global domain?
The .global domain tells visitors your business operates internationally. It's a strong choice for companies that have outgrown their country-code TLD and want a web address that reflects worldwide ambitions. Global consultancies, international logistics firms, and multinational brands all benefit from removing geographic limitation from the URL.
Who should register .global?
International consultancies, global logistics firms, multinational brands, and organisations with worldwide operations.
Why choose .global?
- Removes geographic limitation
- Signals international ambition
- Professional and aspirational
- Works for any industry with global reach
Who runs .global, and since when
Registry data from the .global 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
- Identity Digital Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 29 May 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no eligibility check and no local presence rule
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £76.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .global signals, and what it costs
Reach for .global at the point where a country extension has become a liability. A firm billing in four currencies would rather not put a national extension at the top of every invoice, and the matching .com has usually gone to a company in an unrelated sector. One word in the address solves both problems, and that is the entire argument for this extension.
It reached the root zone in 2014, delegated to Dot GLOBAL AS, and changed hands in April 2024 when Identity Digital took over the registry. Neither operator has ever gated it. There is no eligibility test, no paperwork and no local presence rule, so the only thing between you and the name is whether somebody registered it first.
The catch is price. Check the figure on this page against a .co.uk before you commit, because .global is one of the dearest extensions we sell and that bill repeats every year for as long as the business exists. Over a decade the gap is real money, and what it buys is positioning rather than anything technical: DNS, DNSSEC, mail routing and TLS behave identically on a cheap extension.
The second catch is the word. It makes a claim, and a visitor who lands on a site listing one office in one county will notice the mismatch. Treat it as an extension you grow into rather than one you announce with. If you already trade across borders it earns its keep. If you are planning to, register the .co.uk now and add the .global when the claim is true.
Is .global the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.global works well if
- You already trade in several countries and no single national extension fits, so a neutral hub above your country sites is the cleanest structure.
- The exact .com is gone and the alternatives are a hyphen or a padded name, both of which are longer to say than a short .global.
- Your brand is short and the word does real work after it, so the address reads as a statement rather than as a compromise.
- You want an address that stays right through a head office move, because it names no country to become wrong later.
Look elsewhere if
- You sell to one country. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that .global cannot, and it costs a small fraction of the price.
- Budget is a factor. This is the most expensive extension on this page by some distance and the renewal repeats every year, for ever.
- The claim outruns the business. A single-office firm on a .global invites the question of where the other offices are.
Trading mainly in Britain? A .co.uk does more for local search and costs a fraction of this. See .co.uk pricing.
.global vs .com: which should you register?
Most people weighing a .global are weighing it against a .com they cannot have. If the exact .com is free, take it. It costs less, it is what people type without thinking, and it makes no promise you then have to keep.
The comparison gets interesting once the .com has gone and the remaining options are a hyphen, an extra word, or a different extension altogether. A padded acme-group-worldwide.com is longer to say and no easier to remember than acme.global, and that is the trade this extension exists to offer.
If the budget stretches to both, the usual pattern is the .com as the permanent address with the .global redirecting to it, or the reverse where international reach is the brand itself.
| .global | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| What the word claims | Explicitly international | Nothing in particular |
| Delegated | 2014 | 1985 |
| Annual cost | Premium | Low |
| Short names left | Plenty in most categories | Very few without hyphens |
| Typed by mistake | Visitors default to .com | It is the default |
.global domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .global domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyA .com is the safer default and .global is the clearer statement. The .com is recognised everywhere, costs less and is what a visitor types on autopilot, so if the exact name is available it usually wins. A .global earns its place when the .com has gone and the fallback would be a hyphenated or padded version, because a short branded .global is easier to say aloud and to remember than a long .com.
No. There is no eligibility rule, no documentation and no check of any kind, so a sole trader in one town can register one. That cuts both ways: because nobody verifies the claim, visitors know the extension proves nothing, and a site that clearly operates in one place can look as though it is reaching. Buy it when the international story is already true.
The registry prices it as a premium string and there is nothing technical behind the difference. Resolution, DNSSEC, mail records and certificates all work exactly as they do on the cheapest extension we sell. You are paying for the word, which is a reasonable thing to pay for if the word does work for your brand, and a poor use of the budget if it does not.
Not on its own. Google treats generic extensions as carrying no country signal, so a .global neither helps nor hurts you in any particular market. Google's own guidance is that a generic domain wanting to reach several countries should signal it through locale-specific URLs, hreflang annotations and sitemaps. The extension makes a promise to humans; the targeting work still has to be done in the markup.
Included with Your .global 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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