.tech Domain
The Technology Domain
Register your .tech domain from just £44.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .tech domain?
The .tech domain extension is built for the technology sector. Clear, concise, and instantly understood, it's a strong choice for tech companies, IT services, and innovation-driven businesses that want their domain to reflect their industry.
Who should register .tech?
Technology companies, IT service providers, and innovation-focused businesses.
Why choose .tech?
- Clear technology identity
- Modern and professional
- Good availability for brand names
- Recognised by the tech industry
Who runs .tech, and since when
Registry data from the .tech 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.
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2015
- Delegated 12 March 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with no requirement to work in technology and no residency rule
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £44.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Does .tech help a technology company rank?
The most common reason people buy a .tech domain is the wrong one. The theory runs that an extension containing the word tech must help the site turn up for technology searches. It does not, Google said so plainly in 2015, and the position has not moved. Keywords after the dot are worth nothing to a search engine. Everything a .tech buys happens in the reader's head rather than in the index: a smaller claim, but a truer one.
What happens in the reader's head is still worth paying for. The word is unambiguous, one syllable, and it survives a bad phone line. It also has adoption at a level most extensions launched in 2015 never reached: the Consumer Technology Association publishes the official site for CES, its annual Las Vegas technology show, at ces.tech. An organisation of that size putting the address on a stage backdrop answers the founder who fears the extension looks like a novelty.
The price, and the premium name trap
.tech is the dearest of the four Radix extensions in this group at our prices, roughly four and a half times a .co.uk and about two and a half times a .dev. Across a ten-year company life that gap buys a decent laptop. The larger risk is premium pricing. Short, obvious technology words in .tech are commonly sold in a premium tier, and a premium name renews at the premium price for as long as you hold it. ICANN's registry agreement allows precisely that where the higher renewal was disclosed at the point of sale, so the order page is the protection you have. Read it before you click, not afterwards.
Nothing stops a non-technology business registering one. No sector verification, no document, no residency rule. ICANN signed the contract with Radix on 30 January 2015 and the extension reached the root zone on 12 March 2015, under the same standard non-sponsored agreement that governs .site, .online and .space. A plumber can hold a .tech. Whether they should is another question, and the answer is usually no.
Our steer: .tech works for a product, a conference, an internal tool, or a company whose whole identity is the industry, and it works best when you also own the .com or .co.uk. As the lone address for a UK IT support firm selling to businesses down the road, it costs more and finds you less.
Overall, our systems treat new gTLDs like other gTLDs (like .com and .org). Keywords in a TLD do not give any advantage or disadvantage in search.
What that means if you are buying one
Take that as removing a reason to buy rather than as a reason not to. Nothing in a .tech will lift you and nothing will hold you back, so the extension has to earn its keep on how it reads and what it costs. The same answer covers .online, .site and .space, and Google has never revised it.
Is .tech the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.tech works well if
- Your company is the industry. Hardware, developer tooling, IT services, deep tech: the extension repeats what you already say.
- You are naming a conference, a product launch or a research programme that wants its own address beside a corporate domain.
- The .com you wanted is held by an unrelated business, and a clean brand.tech beats an awkward getbrand.com.
- You want an extension with adoption at the top of the sector. The Consumer Technology Association runs the official CES site at ces.tech.
Look elsewhere if
- You are not a technology business. An extension naming somebody else's industry costs you clarity and buys nothing.
- You assumed the word would help you rank for technology terms. It will not, and Google has said so since 2015.
- Budget is the constraint. .tech is the dearest extension in this group, about four and a half times a .co.uk every year.
- The word you want is short and obvious, which usually means a premium tier, carrying a premium renewal for as long as you keep it.
Building a developer-facing product rather than a company brand? A .dev costs well under half as much and sits on the HSTS preload list, so browsers enforce HTTPS. See .dev pricing.
.tech vs .io: which should you register?
These are the two extensions technology companies actually argue about, and they pull in opposite directions. .io is a country-code extension for the British Indian Ocean Territory, adopted by the industry because IO means input and output. .tech states the sector in plain English. One is an in-joke the right audience gets instantly; the other is a label anybody can read.
.io costs more at our prices and carries a question .tech does not: it is tied to an ISO 3166-1 country code, and sovereignty over the territory changed under a 2025 treaty. ICANN's retirement process is slow, published and measured in years, so nothing is imminent, but a generic extension has no equivalent tail.
Choose .io for a developer tool where the audience is technical and the joke lands. Choose .tech when non-technical people have to read the address without help. If the company is meant to outlive both arguments, own the .com as well.
| .tech | .io | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Generic, no country ties | Country-code, used generically |
| In the root zone since | 2015 | 1997 |
| Annual price | The cheaper of the two | The dearer of the two |
| Non-technical reader | Reads clearly | Puzzling |
| Tied to a territory | No | Yes, via ISO 3166-1 |
| Premium name pricing | Common on short words | Common on short words |
.tech domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .tech domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyIt is neutral, and the widespread belief that it helps is wrong. Google treats new generic extensions exactly as it treats .com and .org, and has said keywords in a top-level domain give no advantage or disadvantage in search. A .tech will not rank you for technology terms, nor penalise you. What it lacks is the UK signal a .co.uk carries, so a British IT firm selling locally is better served by the .co.uk.
It turns on who has to read the address. .io signals to developers and carries the weight of long adoption in that world; .tech reads plainly to everybody, investors and journalists included. .io costs more at our prices and is tied to a country code whose territory changed sovereignty under a 2025 treaty, which is a slow question rather than an urgent one. For a developer tool, .io. For a company, .tech.
The registry prices it that way and demand from the technology sector holds it there. At our rates .tech costs roughly four and a half times a .co.uk and about two and a half times a .dev, every year you hold it. You pay for the word, not for anything technical: DNS resolution, DNSSEC and record types are identical across every extension we sell. Price it over ten years, and check the renewal.
No. There is no sector verification, no document to supply and no local presence rule. ICANN's agreement with Radix is the standard non-sponsored contract, so anyone anywhere can register a .tech for any lawful purpose. Being allowed to is not the same as being well advised to. An extension naming an industry you do not work in makes a customer stop and reinterpret the address, a small cost you pay on every impression.
Unlock the domain with your current registrar, ask for the authorisation code, then start the transfer with us and approve the confirmation email. It normally completes in a few days rather than the minutes a .uk takes, because .uk moves on an IPS tag change while generic extensions run ICANN's transfer process. The domain must be over 60 days past registration or its last transfer, and the transfer adds a year to your expiry.
Included with Your .tech 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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