.site Domain
The Universal Web Address
Register your .site domain from just £27.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .site domain?
The .site domain is one of the most versatile new extensions. It works for any website, any industry, any purpose. When the perfect .com is taken and .net doesn't fit, .site steps in as a clean, modern alternative. Portfolio sites, project microsites, and small business websites all look professional under a .site address.
Who should register .site?
Small businesses, freelancers, project microsites, and anyone wanting a clean, modern domain.
Why choose .site?
- Works for any type of website
- Clean, modern alternative to .com
- Excellent name availability
- No industry limitation
Who runs .site, and since when
Registry data from the .site 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, with no eligibility check, no documents and no residency rule
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £27.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
How .site and .website split the same idea
Every address on the web is a site, so the word after the dot in a .site domain adds no information about what you do. That reads like a criticism and it is not. A suffix meaning nothing in particular is exactly what you want when the brand on the left does all the work. It does mean .site has to win on availability and on how it reads, because it can never win on meaning.
Then there is the sibling problem, which no registrar has any reason to raise with you. Radix runs .site and Radix also runs .website, and the two say the same thing at different lengths. ICANN signed the .site registry agreement on 15 January 2015 and the extension reached the root zone on 6 March 2015; .website got there earlier, delegated on 22 May 2014. At our prices .site costs a few pounds a year more. Choosing between them is choosing between four letters and seven, from one registry, for one job.
Where .site earns its place
Short and unmistakable is a real asset. Nobody misspells site once they have seen it written down, and it takes four letters on a business card. That makes it easier to read aloud than .space, which lands in the ear as a word with two meanings, and shorter than .online. It suits a project microsite, an event, a portfolio under a personal name, or a second address pointing at part of a larger website. As the permanent trading address of a UK company it is a harder sell.
Nothing restricts who may register one. No sector test, no document to supply, no residency rule, and the ICANN contract is the standard non-sponsored agreement. Radix publishes an acceptable use and anti-abuse policy across all its extensions, letting it suspend or cancel a name used for phishing, malware or trademark abuse. That is normal and no lawful business need worry about it. The rule with teeth is the one everybody forgets: renew on time, or somebody else gets it.
Our steer: buy .site when the name on the left is the product and you want a suffix that stays out of the way. If you sell to people in Britain who type a town name into Google alongside what they want, the .co.uk earns its keep in a way a .site simply cannot.
Is .site the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.site works well if
- You have a strong short brand and want a suffix that adds nothing and takes nothing away from it.
- You are building a microsite for a launch or an event that sits beside a main domain rather than replacing it.
- You need an address that survives a bad phone line. Site has one syllable and one spelling.
- You are a freelancer trading under a personal name, and the .com and .co.uk both went years ago.
Look elsewhere if
- Your customers are British and find you through Google rather than word of mouth. .site reads as generic, so there is no UK signal to help them.
- You want the extension to explain something. Site names the format, not the trade, so it says nothing about what you sell.
- Price decides it. A .site runs close to three times a .co.uk every year, and .website from the same registry costs less for the same idea.
- Some customers treat any unfamiliar extension as a phishing link and will not click. A .co.uk removes that hesitation.
Want short and cheap for a British business? The .uk second level is shorter still and costs about a third as much. See .uk pricing.
.site vs .website: which should you register?
These two are one product in two lengths, from one registry, and there is more margin in selling you the choice than in explaining that. Radix operates both, under the same ICANN contract, anti-abuse policy, WHOIS handling and technical service.
What differs is three letters and a few pounds a year. .site is shorter, so it sits tidily next to a long brand and takes less room in a signature block. .website is the more explicit and the cheaper at our prices, which matters more than it sounds once you multiply it across a decade of renewals.
If you cannot decide, write both out beside your brand, print them, and look again the next morning. That beats any argument about meaning, because neither carries any.
| .site | .website | |
|---|---|---|
| Registry operator | Radix | Radix |
| In the root zone since | 2015 | 2014 |
| Letters after the dot | Four | Seven |
| Annual price | The dearer of the two | The cheaper of the two |
| Meaning it adds | None, by design | None, by design |
| Transfer to us | Costs a year, adds a year | Costs a year, adds a year |
.site domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .site domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyLength and price, and that is close to all of it. Radix runs both, under the same ICANN contract and anti-abuse policy, so the service behind them is identical. .site gives you four letters after the dot and costs a few pounds a year more at our rates; .website gives you seven for a little less. Neither carries a sector meaning, a geographic signal or an eligibility rule. Pick whichever looks better beside your brand.
It can be, but not for a business that depends on being found locally. A .site works when your brand is the whole message and you want a short, unmistakable suffix behind it. It works badly when customers reach you by typing a town name and a service into Google, because .site carries no UK signal. For a plumber in Kettering the .co.uk wins on search and on price. For a design studio with international clients, .site is reasonable.
No. Google treats new generic extensions the same as .com and .org, and keywords after the dot count for nothing either way. What you lose is an absence rather than a penalty: a .co.uk tells Google the site is probably more relevant to people searching in the UK, and .site tells it nothing. If your customers are British, that missing signal is a real cost. If they are spread across a dozen countries, it costs nothing.
No, and the gap is wider than most people expect. At our prices a .site costs close to three times a .co.uk every year, and a .co.uk transfers in free while a .site transfer costs a full year. Over ten years that adds up for a small business. .site earns its price when the name you want really is gone everywhere else, and does not when the matching .co.uk is sitting there unregistered.
Yes, exactly as you would any other extension. Every domain we sell comes with free DNS management, email forwarding and one free 10GB mailbox, so hello@yourname.site works from day one. Publish SPF, DKIM and DMARC records before you send anything that matters. Newer generic extensions carry less inherent trust with receiving mail servers than a .co.uk, and correct authentication records are what closes that gap.
Radix, recorded in the IANA root zone database as Radix Technologies Inc. SEZC, has run .site since it was delegated on 6 March 2015. Radix also operates .online, .space, .website and .tech, which is why those extensions share pricing patterns and a single acceptable use policy. IANA maintains the root zone, so its delegation record is the authoritative answer rather than whatever a reseller prints.
Included with Your .site 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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