.training Domain
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What is a .training domain?
The .training domain is built for organisations that deliver professional development, CPD courses, and skills workshops. It tells prospective learners and corporate clients that your focus is on measurable improvement and practical expertise.
Who should register .training?
Training providers, CPD course creators, corporate trainers, and skills development organisations.
Why choose .training?
- Signals professional development
- Appeals to corporate buyers
- Clear and action-oriented
- Perfect for course catalogues
Who runs .training, and since when
Registry data from the .training 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
- 2013
- Delegated 19 December 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no accreditation or awarding body status needed
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £34.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .training can claim, and what Ofqual reserves
Training and qualification are not the same word in law, and the gap between them is where a good deal of course marketing quietly goes wrong. In England, Ofqual regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments, including vocational and technical qualifications and apprenticeship end-point assessments. A .training domain gives you no standing there. Buying one changes nothing about what you may lawfully call the thing you sell. It is an address, not a credential.
What the extension does buy is a category label in the address bar, aimed at a market that shops by category. Corporate learning and development teams, health and safety providers, first aid instructors, plant and forklift operators, software vendors running certification courses: all of them sell a service whose name is the same word every competitor uses, so the differentiation has to sit to the left of the dot.
It was one of the first commercial extensions of the current round, delegated in December 2013, and it is operated by Binky Moon for Identity Digital. The registry agreement includes the open registration commitment, so the registry cannot limit who may register, and it carries none of the Category 1 consumer-protection obligations that landed on .school and on the finance extensions. There is no verification, no accreditation check and no paperwork.
Our steer: this works best as a second address on a specific course brand rather than the only address a company owns. Buy the .co.uk for the business and the .training for the course catalogue, and you get a clean split between who you are and what you sell.
Is .training the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.training works well if
- You sell courses under a course brand that differs from the company name, and you want a short address for the course rather than a long path buried in the company site.
- Your buyers are corporate learning or health and safety managers who search by category, and the extension repeats that category for free.
- The company .co.uk is already doing a different job, and folding a course catalogue into it would muddle both.
- You deliver in several countries, so a UK extension would misdescribe where your courses actually run.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a sole trainer with one brand and one audience. Two domains means two renewals and two certificates to keep track of for no real gain.
- You want the extension to imply accreditation. It does not, and any buyer who checks will find nothing behind it.
- Most enquiries reach you through local search. A .co.uk costs roughly a quarter as much a year and gives Google the UK signal this cannot.
One brand, one audience, mostly local enquiries? The .co.uk is cheaper and works harder. See .co.uk pricing.
.training vs .academy: which should you register?
Both are Identity Digital extensions, both open to anyone, and the price gap is small enough to leave out of the decision. The word is what you are choosing. Training describes an activity you deliver. Academy describes an institution you have built.
.academy suits a body with a curriculum, cohorts and some sense of progression: a sales academy, a coding academy, a leadership programme with alumni. .training suits a catalogue of discrete courses people book one at a time. Get it the wrong way round and the address quietly oversells or undersells what you actually run.
One caution on .academy for a UK audience. Academy has a specific meaning in English state education, so a commercial provider using it can be mistaken for a school trust. .training has no such collision.
| .training | .academy | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads as | An activity you deliver | An institution you have built |
| In the root zone since | 2013 | 2013 |
| Registry | Binky Moon, for Identity Digital | Binky Moon, for Identity Digital |
| Category 1 commitments | No | No |
| UK naming collision | None | State school academies |
.training domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .training domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, and nobody should read it that way. The registry performs no accreditation check, the ICANN agreement sets no eligibility criteria, and the word training carries no regulatory meaning on its own. Ofqual regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England, and recognition there comes from Ofqual rather than from a domain registrar. If your courses lead to a regulated qualification, say which one on the page. The address cannot say it for you.
A subfolder usually wins if you only have one brand, because everything you publish builds authority on one hostname instead of two. A separate .training domain earns its place when the course catalogue is a distinct brand, has its own audience, or may be sold or spun out later. Splitting a small site across two domains is a common and expensive mistake: you end up maintaining two of everything and ranking well with neither.
Roughly four times as much each year. That gap matters more than it looks, because a training business holds its domain for as long as it trades and the renewal comes round annually regardless of how the year went. If the .co.uk version of your course brand is still free, take it first. Buy the .training as well when the word adds meaning your name lacks on its own, not because the .com was gone.
Yes. The registry agreement includes an open registration commitment, which means the registry may not limit eligibility based on who you are, and it must not restrict names to registrants associated only with the most common usage of the word. There is no local presence requirement and no sector test. The only bars are ICANN's standard reserved names, which cover country and territory names and all two-character labels at the second level.
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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