.holdings Domain
For Businesses Behind the Businesses
Register your .holdings domain from just £52.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .holdings domain?
The .holdings domain serves holding companies, investment vehicles, and corporate structures that own other businesses. It's a behind-the-scenes domain: the web address for the entity that holds the portfolio, not the individual brands within it. Private equity firms, family offices, and real estate holding companies all use it to maintain a corporate presence separate from their operating companies.
Who should register .holdings?
Holding companies, private equity firms, family offices, and investment vehicle operators.
Why choose .holdings?
- Clear corporate structure signal
- Separates the holding from operating brands
- Professional for investor audiences
- Matches legal entity naming conventions
Who runs .holdings, and since when
Registry data from the .holdings 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
- 2013
- Delegated 31 October 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no corporate structure requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £52.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a holding company actually needs from .holdings
Start with an awkward question: does the holding company need a website at all? Most do not. What the group entity usually needs is an address for email, a place to put statutory information and investor documents, and something to write on a letterhead that is not the name of an operating brand. That is a page, a mailbox and a set of DNS records, and it changes how you should judge this extension.
Judged that way, .holdings does the naming job well. Group names tend to be generic, so acmegroupholdings.co.uk is either taken or a mouthful, while acme.holdings is neither. It also puts visible distance between the parent and the trading brands, which is the point of the structure in the first place.
The catch is the bill. This is among the more expensive endings in this set, several times a .co.uk, renewed annually for as long as the group exists. A subdomain of the main group site, or a .co.uk, costs a fraction and does the same work. Delegated at the end of October 2013, it was one of the first new generic extensions in the root zone, so availability is not what it was.
Is .holdings the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.holdings works well if
- The parent entity is deliberately kept separate from the trading brands and you want the address to make that structure obvious to investors.
- The group name is a common word or a family surname, so the .com and .co.uk went years ago, but the name alone is free in front of this ending.
- You mostly need email and a single page of statutory information, and a memorable address matters more than search visibility you were never chasing.
Look elsewhere if
- The holding company trades under the same name as the main brand. Two addresses for one identity confuses customers and splits your search results.
- You are watching costs across a group of dormant entities. This renews at several times a .co.uk every year for a site nobody visits.
- You want it for credibility with lenders or investors. They look at Companies House filings and audited accounts, not at what follows the dot.
A subdomain of the group site, or a plain .co.uk, does the same job for a fraction of the annual cost. See .co.uk pricing.
.holdings vs .com: which should you register?
A .com is the default for a corporate parent with any international dimension, and for good reason: it is understood everywhere, nobody has to be told how to spell it, and lenders, brokers and journalists expect it. Where it falls down is availability, because a generic group name on .com has usually been gone for two decades and the aftermarket price is a different order of magnitude to a registration fee.
That is the trade. If acmeholdings.com is available at retail, buy it and stop reading. If it is not, acme.holdings gets you a clean, short address today at an annual price you can plan around, and the only thing you give up is familiarity. For a company whose audience is a handful of banks, auditors and shareholders rather than the public, that is a smaller loss than it would be for a consumer brand.
.holdings domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .holdings domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyIt needs an email domain more than it needs a website. Board correspondence, bank and auditor contact and statutory filings all benefit from an address that is not tied to one trading brand, and a subsidiary being sold should not take the group inbox with it. Whether that domain also carries a public site is a separate decision, and for a lot of groups one page with the registered office, company number and a contact address is the whole requirement.
Yes, and for a lot of groups it is the better answer. group.yourbrand.co.uk costs nothing beyond the domain you already own, resolves immediately, and can host the same one page. The reason to buy a separate domain is independence: a subdomain lives or dies with the parent domain, so if the trading brand is ever sold, renamed or lost, the group address goes with it. Weigh the annual renewal against how likely that is in your structure.
Wholesale pricing, mostly. Registries set their own rates and price corporate keywords well above commodity endings, while Nominet keeps .co.uk cheap because it sells them in enormous volume. The gap is not about quality of service and it does not buy you a better domain technically. It does mean you should treat a .holdings as a recurring group overhead rather than a one-off purchase, because the renewal is the same figure every year, not a discounted first year.
Included with Your .holdings 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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