.gratis Domain
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Register your .gratis domain from just £23.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .gratis domain?
The .gratis domain means "free" in several European languages, including Spanish, German, and Italian. Freeware download sites, open educational resource platforms, and free community services use it to tell visitors they won't pay a penny.
Who should register .gratis?
Freeware platforms, open educational resource sites, free community services, and multilingual free content providers.
Why choose .gratis?
- Means "free" in multiple languages
- Sets zero-cost expectation immediately
- Appeals to European audiences
- Distinctive and memorable
Who runs .gratis, and since when
Registry data from the .gratis 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 worldwide, with no requirement that anything on the site be free
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £23.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What UK law says about the word gratis
Here is something no registrar puts on a .gratis page: the word appears by name in UK consumer law. Schedule 20 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, in force since 6 April 2025, lists commercial practices that are unfair in all circumstances, and paragraph 23 covers "describing a product as gratis, free, without charge or similar if the consumer has to pay anything other than the unavoidable cost of responding to the commercial practice and collecting or paying for delivery of the item".
A domain name is part of how a product is described. If your .gratis site puts a free trial in front of a subscription, or free downloads behind a registration that later charges, the address forms part of the claim a regulator would read. That's not an argument against registering one. It's an argument for registering one only when the thing really is free.
The word itself travels a long way. It comes from Latin and is the everyday term for free of charge in Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Polish, Romanian, Indonesian and the Scandinavian languages, which beats any English equivalent for reach. Binky Moon runs the extension under a plain base agreement with no eligibility rules attached.
Is .gratis the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.gratis works well if
- You publish something that costs nothing at all: open educational resources, a public domain archive, a free tool with no paid tier behind it.
- Your audience reads Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian or Portuguese, where gratis is the ordinary everyday word rather than a borrowing.
- You want the offer stated before the page loads, and you are confident the offer survives a reading of Schedule 20.
Look elsewhere if
- The free thing is a lead magnet with a paid tier behind it. UK law reads "gratis" as a claim, and an unfair-practice finding costs more than a weaker domain.
- Your customers are British and monolingual. To them gratis is a foreign word, which is a small friction every time somebody says the address aloud.
- It costs more than twice a .co.uk every year, which is a lot to pay for a word describing your pricing rather than your business.
Giving resources away to a UK audience? A .co.uk with a free downloads section says the same thing for less. See .co.uk pricing.
.gratis vs .com: which should you register?
A .com says nothing about price and asks nothing of you. A .gratis makes a promise in the address bar, and that promise is the entire reason to buy it. The trade-off is that promises go out of date. Products that start free rarely stay free, and the day you add a paid tier your domain is describing something that is no longer true.
If the free offer is a permanent part of what you do, .gratis is a sharper name than any .com you could still register today. If it is a stage in a plan, put the free thing on a path under your .com and keep the option to change your mind without changing your address.
.gratis domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .gratis domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyFree of charge. The word is Latin in origin and carries that meaning in Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Polish, Romanian, Indonesian, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, as well as being understood in English. That breadth is the reason to pick it over an English word, because one address reads correctly across most of Europe. The registry attaches no rules of its own to the meaning, so nothing stops a paid site from registering one.
The domain is legal; the claim it makes may not be. Schedule 20 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, in force from 6 April 2025, lists describing a product as gratis or free as unfair in all circumstances if the consumer has to pay anything beyond the unavoidable cost of responding and of delivery. A domain name forms part of how a product is described. If your free offer carries conditions, make them plain on the page rather than trusting the address to be read loosely.
Anyone. Binky Moon operates .gratis under a plain ICANN base agreement, so there is no eligibility test, no evidence that anything on the site is free, and no verification of any kind. That cuts both ways: registration is quick, and the extension proves nothing at all to a visitor. The only real constraints are the Identity Digital acceptable use policy, which bars the usual malware, phishing and harassment, and consumer law wherever your customers happen to be.
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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