.investments Domain
Where Serious Portfolios Find Their Home
Register your .investments domain from just £99.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .investments domain?
The .investments domain is crafted for wealth managers, portfolio services, and investment advisory firms. It communicates a focus on long-term financial growth and gives clients confidence in your expertise.
Who should register .investments?
Investment firms, wealth managers, portfolio advisers, and financial planning services.
Why choose .investments?
- Signals long-term expertise
- Appeals to high-value clients
- Distinguishes from general finance
- Professional and sector-specific
Who runs .investments, and since when
Registry data from the .investments 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 financial licence checked at registration
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £99.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Whether .investments suits a UK regulated firm
Eleven characters is the first thing to reckon with. .investments is one of the longest extensions in general use, and every place your address appears, on a business card, in an email signature, read out to a client, that length is paid for again. Say a candidate domain aloud twice before ordering it. If the second half of the address makes the listener lose the first, the name is too long whatever it says.
Holly Glen, LLC took it into the root zone in April 2014 and Binky Moon, LLC has run it since March 2018. Registration is open worldwide with no financial licence checked and nothing to evidence, which is worth being clear about: the extension is descriptive, not a credential.
Finance was treated as a sensitive category in the 2012 round, so the registry agreement carries commitments binding registrants through their registrars to comply with applicable law, including consumer protection and financial disclosure rules, and to secure sensitive financial data appropriately. Those obligations run alongside your regulator, not instead of it. In the UK, promoting investments is FCA territory, and the domain changes nothing about that.
Is .investments the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.investments works well if
- You are a wealth manager or advisory firm with a short, established name, so the second level stays brief and the address survives being spoken.
- Your clients are institutional or high net worth and reach you by referral, so recall matters more than being typed into a search box.
- You want a descriptive address for one part of a larger group, kept separate from the parent brand and its main website.
Look elsewhere if
- Your firm name is long. Adding eleven characters produces an address people abandon halfway through typing and misquote on the phone.
- You sell to UK retail clients. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google and costs a small fraction of this every year.
- You expect the extension to imply regulation. Nothing is checked at registration, so it signals nothing about authorisation to anyone who knows how domains work.
Advising UK retail clients? A .co.uk is shorter, cheaper and read by Google as a UK site. See .co.uk pricing.
.investments vs .co.uk: which should you register?
For a UK firm this is mostly a question of who you are trying to reach. A .co.uk is short, inexpensive, familiar to every British client, and treated by Google as a UK site, which is the one durable search advantage any extension can offer. Against that, it says nothing about what you do.
A .investments describes the business and asks for length and cost in exchange. That is a reasonable trade for a firm whose clients arrive by introduction and whose name is short enough to carry it. For a firm competing in UK search for advice and planning terms, the .co.uk is the better primary address, with .investments held alongside and redirected if you want it.
.investments domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .investments domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, and it is worth saying so plainly. Registration is open worldwide with no licence checked and no documents to supply, so the extension is descriptive rather than a credential. Anyone assessing a firm should check the FCA register rather than reading anything into the address. The registry agreement does bind registrants through their registrars to comply with applicable law, but that is a conduct obligation, not a verification.
It is the main argument against it. Eleven characters after the dot is a lot to type, dictate or fit on a card, and the cost lands every time the address is used rather than once at purchase. Short second-level names carry it well; long firm names do not. Read the full domain aloud to somebody who has not seen it written down, and if they cannot repeat it back, choose something shorter.
Finance was treated as a sensitive category when the extension was contracted, so its registry agreement carries public interest commitments beyond the ordinary set. Registrars must bind registrants to comply with applicable laws covering privacy, data collection, consumer protection and financial disclosures, and to apply appropriate security where sensitive financial data is collected. None of that restricts who may register. It restricts how you may behave once you have.
Included with Your .investments Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
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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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