.online Domain
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Register your .online domain from just £31.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .online domain?
The .online domain speaks for itself. In an increasingly digital world, .online tells customers you're ready for business on the internet. It's one of the most popular new domain extensions, offering excellent availability and clear messaging.
Who should register .online?
Any business or individual wanting a clear, modern online presence.
Why choose .online?
- Self-explanatory and memorable
- Excellent name availability
- Modern and professional
- Great for digital-first businesses
Who runs .online, and since when
Registry data from the .online 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
- Radix Technologies Inc. SEZC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2015
- Delegated 6 March 2015
- 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
- £31.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .online really costs, and who it suits
The .online domain sells on a promise the word makes for you. Whatever sits on the left, the extension finishes the sentence, in one plain English word with one spelling. Radix runs it. ICANN signed the registry agreement on 15 January 2015 and the extension entered the root zone on 6 March 2015, the same day as .site from the same registry: two products from one portfolio, aimed at one buyer.
The number that decides whether this is a good buy is the renewal, not the first year. .online is among the extensions most often advertised at a pound or less for the first twelve months, with the second year arriving at the standing rate. At our prices that is a little over three times a .co.uk, every year the business exists. Work out a decade of it before you fall in love with a name, because a domain is a subscription you cannot cancel without losing the address.
What the contract gives you on price
ICANN's base registry agreement puts real limits on what a registry may do here, and almost nobody selling you a domain mentions them. A registry has to give registrars 180 days' notice of a renewal price rise, charge every holder in the extension the same renewal price, and once a rise is announced offer registrars the option to renew at the old price for up to ten years. The exception is a premium name, where a higher renewal was disclosed at the point of sale, which is why the order page is the thing to read.
One more point to weigh. Cheap open extensions attract bulk registration by people sending mail nobody asked for, and .online is the only one of Radix's four best-known extensions in the Cybercrime Information Center's top twenty by phishing domain count for the February to April 2026 quarter. That says nothing about your website and quite a lot about how a receiving mail server scores your address on day one.
Our recommendation: .online is a sound second address, a campaign site, or a brand that has given up on the .com and wants something readable. As the only address for a business trading to British customers it is the wrong buy, because it costs more, says nothing about where you are, and carries no weight in Google. Register the .co.uk, then add the .online if the name is worth having twice.
Registry Operator shall offer registrars the option to obtain domain name registration renewals at the current price (i.e., the price in place prior to any noticed increase) for periods of one (1) to ten (10) years at the discretion of the registrar, but no greater than ten (10) years.
What that means if you are buying one
The obligation runs to registrars rather than to you, so use it through us: when a rise is announced, ask us to renew several years at once before it bites. It is the one lever a registrant has against an extension getting dearer, and it does nothing for a premium name whose higher renewal you already agreed to.
Is .online the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.online works well if
- You are building a campaign site or a product microsite beside a main domain, and you want the extension to say what the page is for.
- Your business exists only on the web and sells across borders, so a country extension would say the wrong thing about you.
- The name you wanted left .com and .co.uk years ago, and a clean two-word .online reads better than a hyphenated .com.
- You need a word customers can spell after hearing it once. Online has one spelling and no ambiguity, unlike several rival extensions.
Look elsewhere if
- You sell to UK customers who search with a place name. Google reads .online as generic, so you get none of the UK signal a .co.uk carries.
- The advertised first-year price is not the price. Renewal runs a little over three times a .co.uk at our rates, every year you trade.
- Email matters more than the website. .online sits in the phishing rankings where .site, .space and .tech do not, and mail servers notice.
- The address has to read as a settled British business on a van or an invoice. A .co.uk does that work and .online does not.
Trading mainly to UK customers? A .co.uk costs about a third as much and carries a UK signal .online cannot. See .co.uk pricing.
.online vs .com: which should you register?
Almost every .online is bought because the .com had gone, which makes this a fallback decision rather than a comparison. Price both over a decade before you settle it.
Where .com still wins: it is what a customer types when they half remember your name, it costs roughly half as much a year at our prices, and nobody hesitates over clicking one. Where .online wins: the name you want is still free, and the extension completes a phrase in a way a padded .com never does. Set brightsmile.online beside getbrightsmile.com and the second is the compromise.
If both are within reach, buy both and point one at the other. Cheap insurance, and it settles the argument permanently.
| .online | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Registry operator | Radix | VeriSign |
| In the root zone since | 2015 | 1985 |
| Annual price | Roughly double | The cheaper of the two |
| Typed by default | Rarely | Almost always |
| Short names still free | Many | Very few without hyphens |
| Geographic signal | None | None |
.online domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .online domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyIt is neutral. Google treats new generic extensions the same way as .com and .org, and has said keywords in a top-level domain give no advantage or disadvantage in search. So .online will not rank for the word online, and will not hold you back. The catch runs the other way: a .co.uk carries a UK signal .online does not, which decides it if your customers are British.
Because the first year was a promotion and the renewal is the real price. .online is among the most heavily discounted extensions on first registration, and the gap to the standing rate is wide. ICANN rules make a registry charge every holder the same renewal price and give registrars 180 days' notice of a rise, so the figure is not arbitrary. It is the one to budget on. Read the renewal price here, not an advert.
It is a real extension, delegated to the root zone on 6 March 2015 and run under contract with ICANN by Radix. It resolves everywhere, supports DNSSEC and works with any browser or mail server. People ask because cheap open extensions get used heavily for throwaway sites, so an unfamiliar .online in an inbox draws more suspicion than a .co.uk. That reputation belongs to the crowd, not the extension, and is still fair to weigh.
They can, more often than from a .co.uk or .com, so plan for it. Receiving mail servers score the sending domain, and an extension carrying a lot of abusive registrations starts you behind. Publish SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, send gently for the first few weeks, and avoid mailing a list from a name registered last Tuesday. Every domain we sell includes free DNS management, so those records cost nothing.
Very little, and that is the honest answer rather than a coy one. Both are run by Radix, both registry agreements were signed on 15 January 2015, and both entered the root zone on 6 March 2015. Neither carries a sector meaning or a geographic signal. .site is shorter and a few pounds cheaper; .online reads more like a finished sentence. Choose on how the address sounds out loud.
Usually a few days, rather than the near-instant IPS tag change a .uk gets. You need the authorisation code from your registrar, the domain unlocked, and it must be more than 60 days past registration or its last transfer. The transfer costs a year and adds that year to your expiry, so nothing is lost. A .co.uk moving to our Nominet tag, STACK, is free and takes minutes.
Included with Your .online 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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