.taxi Domain
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Register your .taxi domain from just £47.00/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .taxi domain?
The .taxi domain is built for the passenger transport industry, taxi firms, private hire operators, minicab services, and airport transfer companies. A .taxi domain gives independent operators a memorable, professional web presence.
Who should register .taxi?
Taxi firms, private hire operators, minicab services, and airport transfer companies.
Why choose .taxi?
- Built for passenger transport businesses
- Gives independents a strong web identity
- Memorable for repeat local bookings
- Professional alternative to app-only presence
Who runs .taxi, and since when
Registry data from the .taxi 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
- 2015
- Delegated 30 April 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, including people and firms with no taxi or private hire licence
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £47.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why a .taxi domain proves nothing about your licence
Anyone can register a .taxi. That is not a sales line, it is a contractual commitment: the ICANN registry agreement for this extension binds the operator to open registration, stating that second level registrations "will be open and available to lawful registrants" and that the operator "will not limit registrant eligibility based on identity". No licence is checked, no operator number is requested, and nobody at the registry knows whether you own a vehicle.
That matters here, because in the UK the licence is the whole thing. Driving a taxi or a private hire vehicle in England and Wales needs a licence from the local council, or from Transport for London inside the capital, and the applicant has to be judged a "fit and proper person", which means background checks. The two are not interchangeable either: a private hire vehicle can only be pre-booked, while a licensed taxi can also be hailed in the street or picked up at a rank. A passenger checking you out online is checking the licence, not the extension.
So use the domain for the thing it does well, which is memorability in one town. yourtown.taxi is easier to recall at midnight than a numbered .co.uk, and it survives being repeated in a noisy pub. Put your council licence number and your operator name on the site where a passenger will see them, and the address stops being a claim and becomes a shortcut.
The extension entered the root zone in April 2015 under Binky Moon, part of Identity Digital.
Is .taxi the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.taxi works well if
- You cover one town or one airport route, so a place name in front of the dot makes an address people recall without writing it down.
- Most of your bookings are repeat and local, and the address goes on the vehicle, on receipts and on cards left at hotel desks.
- You are an independent competing with app-only operators and want a web presence that is obviously yours rather than a listing on somebody else's platform.
- The .co.uk you want has gone to a directory site and the alternatives all need "cars" or "cabs" wedged into the middle.
Look elsewhere if
- It costs several times a .co.uk every year, and passengers who find you through Google, a directory or an app never see the domain at all.
- It proves nothing about licensing, so it cannot substitute for displaying your council or TfL licence details on the site.
- A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google, and taxi searches are about as local as searches get, so you are giving up ground where it counts most.
Most of your work coming from local search? Put the site on a .co.uk and use this as the memorable address to redirect from. See .co.uk pricing.
.taxi vs .co.uk: which should you register?
Most licensed operators already hold a .co.uk, so the honest question is whether a .taxi is worth a second annual bill. On search the .co.uk has the edge: Google reads it as a British site, and passenger searches are relentlessly local. A .taxi is a generic extension with no country signal at all.
On recall, .taxi wins in one specific setting, which is the address printed on a vehicle, a receipt or a card left at a hotel desk. Somebody who reads it once and types it hours later will remember yourtown.taxi more reliably than a longer .co.uk with "cars" or "cabs" pushed into the middle of it.
The pattern that works is the .co.uk as the site Google indexes, with the .taxi registered and redirected to it for print and word of mouth. One site, two ways in, and the search signal stays where it earns money.
| .taxi | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Country signal in Google | None, treated as generic | United Kingdom |
| Annual cost here | Several times a .co.uk | Low |
| Recall from print | Strong with a place name | Depends on the name |
| Familiar to UK passengers | Rarely seen | Universally recognised |
| Proves you are licensed | No, nothing is checked | No, nothing is checked |
.taxi domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .taxi domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, and the registry is contractually barred from asking. The ICANN registry agreement for .taxi commits the operator to open registration and states it will not limit eligibility based on identity, so no licence, operator number or vehicle details are checked at any point. That means the extension carries no assurance for passengers either, which is why your council or TfL licence details belong on the site itself.
A .co.uk is the better main address and .taxi is the better second one. Google reads a .co.uk as a British site, which counts on searches like "airport transfer Kettering", and it costs a fraction of the price. A .taxi with a place name in front of it is easier to remember from a card or a vehicle livery, so register it and redirect it rather than replacing the site you already rank with.
Not on its own, and any registrar saying otherwise is guessing. The extension has no effect on search rankings, and passengers who find you through Google, a directory or an app never look at the address at all. Where it can help is repeat trade: an address somebody remembers from a receipt is a booking that bypasses the aggregators, and that is worth measuring against the renewal cost.
Yes, there is no restriction on which kind of operator registers one. Be careful how you describe yourself on the site, though: in England and Wales a private hire vehicle can only be pre-booked, while a licensed hackney carriage can also be hailed or taken from a rank. Using "taxi" in your marketing when you hold a private hire licence is worth checking with your licensing authority before you print it.
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