.green Domain
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Register your .green domain from just £61.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .green domain?
The .green domain is for businesses and organisations committed to environmental sustainability. Renewable energy providers, organic brands, and eco-certification bodies use it to wear their green credentials on their sleeve. Unlike .eco (which requires a pledge), .green is open to anyone, though its association with environmentalism is strong.
Who should register .green?
Renewable energy companies, organic brands, eco-certification bodies, and sustainability-focused retailers.
Why choose .green?
- Strong environmental association
- Open registration, no pledge required
- Five letters with universal meaning
- Growing recognition in green markets
Who runs .green, and since when
Registry data from the .green 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 12 June 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no environmental commitment or audit required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £61.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .green proves nothing about your environmental claims
This is the dearest extension in this group, and the only claim it makes is one that anybody with a debit card can buy. Identity Digital Limited has held it since its delegation on 12 June 2014 and publishes no eligibility criteria: no audit, no standard, no pledge, no questions. A fossil fuel trader could register one this afternoon. That is the single most important thing to understand about a .green domain before you spend the money.
The contrast that makes the point is .eco, which we also sell. Its registry asks registrants to be committed to working toward a sustainable future and willing to disclose the environmental actions they are taking, and to take the .eco pledge and create a public .eco profile as part of getting the domain. Whether that amounts to much is a fair argument, but at least there is something on the other side of it. With .green there is nothing at all.
So what is it for? Positioning, to an audience that has already decided. If you install heat pumps, retrofit housing stock or sell reclaimed materials, the word puts your category in the address and saves you a strapline. It is short, it is understood in every English-speaking market, and it reads well on a van.
What it is not for is proof. A procurement team checking your environmental claims wants a certification body, a standard number and figures they can read. None of that lives in a domain name, and an address leaning hard on a claim you cannot evidence draws exactly the scrutiny you were hoping to avoid. Register it because the word suits your marketing, not because you want it to stand in for a certificate.
Is .green the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.green works well if
- You sell into a market where the word does the positioning: renewable installation, retrofit, sustainable materials, carbon reporting.
- Your existing brand name is long, and pairing it with .green gives you something shorter than the equivalent .co.uk.
- You are running a campaign or a scheme where the address itself is the message and gets seen more often than it gets typed.
- You already hold the .co.uk and want a second address for a sustainable product line without diluting the main brand.
Look elsewhere if
- The extension certifies nothing. If your claim is environmental, buyers look for a standard and an auditor, and a domain substitutes for neither.
- It runs to more than six times a .co.uk each year, which makes it a marketing budget line rather than an operational one.
- If your environmental credentials are thin, an address that shouts about them invites the questions you were hoping nobody would ask.
If you want the extension itself to mean something, .eco asks registrants to take a pledge and publish what they are doing. .green asks for nothing. See .eco pricing.
.green vs .eco: which should you register?
These are the two environmental extensions we sell and they are built on opposite principles.
.green is a word you buy. Identity Digital publishes no criteria, so registration is instant and the extension asserts nothing about the registrant. .eco is a word you sign for. Big Room Inc., which has run it since 2016, asks registrants to be committed to working toward a sustainable future, to be willing to disclose the environmental actions they are taking, and to take the .eco pledge and create a .eco profile. That profile is public, which is the part that actually does work: it gives somebody checking you a page to read.
.eco costs more again. If the address is doing marketing, .green is the cheaper way to say the word. If you want it to carry weight with a sceptical buyer, .eco is the only one of the two with a mechanism behind it.
| .green | .eco | |
|---|---|---|
| Who may register | Anyone, no questions | Registrants who take the .eco pledge |
| What the registry asks | Nothing | A commitment and a public profile |
| Registry | Identity Digital Limited | Big Room Inc. |
| Root zone since | 2014 | 2016 |
| Annual cost here | High | Higher still |
.green domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .green domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, and it is worth being clear about that before you build a campaign on it. Identity Digital publishes no eligibility criteria for .green, so there is no audit, no standard to meet and nothing to sign. Any person or company anywhere can register one regardless of what they do. To a buyer or a procurement team the extension is a marketing choice rather than evidence, and it will not substitute for a certification body, a standard number or published figures.
The eligibility, and only that. A .green is open to anyone with no questions asked. For a .eco, the registry asks registrants to be committed to working toward a sustainable future and willing to disclose the environmental actions they are taking, and to take the .eco pledge and create a .eco profile as part of the process. That public profile is the practical difference: it gives somebody checking your claims a page to read. A .eco also costs more again, so the choice is between a cheaper word and a dearer word with a mechanism behind it.
Anyone worldwide. There is no industry test, no residency requirement, no membership scheme and no document to supply. Identity Digital Limited runs the extension under a standard ICANN registry agreement, which means the only names withheld are the ones ICANN reserves across every new extension: two-character second-level labels and the short-form names of countries and territories, plus whatever the registry holds back as premium inventory.
The registry sets the wholesale price and this one is set high. Nothing technical justifies it: a .green resolves exactly like a .co.uk, supports the same DNSSEC and takes the same records. At more than six times a .co.uk annually, with that bill repeating for as long as you trade, it is worth deciding whether the address will be seen often enough to earn the difference. If it lives only in a browser bookmark, it almost certainly is not.
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DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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