.parts Domain
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What is a .parts domain?
The .parts domain is tailor-made for auto parts suppliers, machinery component dealers, and electronics spares retailers. Parts buying is search-driven: customers know exactly what they need and want to find it quickly. A .parts domain tells them your site specialises in components.
Who should register .parts?
Auto parts suppliers, machinery component dealers, electronics spares retailers, and industrial parts wholesalers.
Why choose .parts?
- Speaks to search-driven buyers
- Signals specialist stock
- Covers automotive, industrial, and electronics
- Short and professional
Who runs .parts, and since when
Registry data from the .parts 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 6 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open registration, with no requirement to hold a trade account or sell parts
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £36.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .parts buyers search by part number, not brand
Parts retail runs on identifiers. Somebody looking for a wheel bearing does not search for a shop, they search for an OE number, a chassis code or a model year, and they land on whichever page carries that string. That is worth saying plainly on a page selling .parts domains, because it sets a realistic expectation: the extension will not win you the search. Your catalogue pages and your fitment data will.
What .parts earns is recall on the second visit. Trade buyers reorder from the same two or three suppliers, and a short address that says what you stock is easier to keep in a phone than a long hyphenated one. Motor factors, plant and machinery dealers, electronics spares and appliance spares all sit comfortably in it.
The extension came out of the 2014 wave of new generic extensions. IANA records it entering the root zone on 6 February 2014, delegated to Sea Goodbye, LLC, and moving to Binky Moon, LLC in the March 2018 transfer that consolidated 196 extensions under one operator. Registration has never been restricted: there is no trade account to prove and no company number to supply.
One practical point before you order. Parts businesses print their address on invoices, van livery and marketplace listings that outlive the website. Pick the version you can dictate over a bad phone line in a noisy workshop, and register the .co.uk alongside it if there is any chance a customer will guess at that instead.
Is .parts the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.parts works well if
- You supply trade customers who reorder, and you want an address they can remember without looking it up first.
- Your business name plus the word parts already describes you, such as a motor factor or a plant spares dealer.
- You are separating a spares operation from a main business that already trades on another domain.
- The .co.uk you wanted has gone and the alternatives are hyphenated or padded with words nobody actually says.
Look elsewhere if
- You expect the extension itself to bring search traffic. Parts buying is driven by part numbers and fitment data, and the domain plays almost no part in it.
- Most of your sales come from UK customers searching locally, where a .co.uk carries a country signal in Google that a generic extension cannot.
- You deal with older or less technical buyers who will type .com out of habit and never reach your site at all.
Selling spares mainly to UK retail customers? The .co.uk is cheaper and reads as local. See .co.uk pricing.
.parts vs .com: which should you register?
Almost every parts business that considers .parts is really weighing it against a .com it cannot have at a sensible length. The two-word .com in any established parts category went in the 2000s, so the honest comparison is a short, exact .parts against a longer .com with a filler word bolted on the front.
.com still wins on default typing behaviour and on being understood by every customer without explanation. .parts wins on availability, and on saying what you sell in the address itself, which counts for more on a van door than in a browser.
If you can afford both, buy both and redirect one. That is cheap insurance against a customer typing the .com and reaching a competitor or a parked page.
| .parts | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Generic, descriptive | Generic, no meaning attached |
| In the root zone since | 6 February 2014 | 1985 |
| Short names left | Widely available | Very few without hyphens |
| Typed by default | No | Yes |
| Annual cost | Several times a .co.uk | Low |
.parts domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .parts domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. .parts is open to anyone in any country, with no trade account, no company registration and no documents to supply. The registry, Identity Digital, applies one acceptable use policy across its extensions, which lets it suspend a domain over abuse or over registration data it finds inaccurate. That is a condition of holding any domain rather than a sector rule, so somebody rebuilding classic bikes at home registers on the same terms as a national distributor.
Not on its own. Google treats .parts as a generic extension, so the word in the domain buys no ranking advantage. Rankings for part numbers come from the number appearing in your page content, your titles and your structured data, backed by fitment tables that answer the query properly. The domain earns its keep in recall and in how relevant the address looks in a results list, which is a smaller effect than most sellers expect.
The .co.uk, if you have to pick one. It costs less, it carries a UK signal that Google reads as a geographic target, and trade customers guess at it without prompting. .parts makes sense as a second address: a short, exact name for the spares catalogue that points at the same site or sits beside it. Registering both is the usual answer, and the combined annual bill is small against the cost of one customer failing to find you.
Yes. You will need the authorisation code from your current registrar, the domain must be unlocked, and generic extensions are blocked from transferring for the first 60 days after registration or after a change of registrant. Allow a few hours to several days for it to complete. Only .uk domains move near instantly, because those are an IPS tag change rather than a registry transfer. Your remaining registration period carries over and the transfer adds a further year to it.
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