.vacations Domain
Where Holiday Plans Take Shape
Register your .vacations domain from just £34.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .vacations domain?
The .vacations domain is an American English counterpart to .holiday, and it resonates with the global travel market. Holiday rental agencies, all-inclusive resort sites, and vacation planning platforms can use it to signal exactly what they offer. For UK businesses targeting American travellers, it bridges the language gap neatly.
Who should register .vacations?
Holiday rental agencies, all-inclusive resorts, vacation planning platforms, and tour operators targeting US travellers.
Why choose .vacations?
- Resonates with American travellers
- Ideal for holiday rental listings
- Clear and inviting meaning
- Complements a .holiday or .tours domain
Who runs .vacations, and since when
Registry data from the .vacations 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 13 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no travel trade or local presence requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £34.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .vacations reads as American to a UK audience
Britons take holidays. Americans take vacations. That one difference settles most of whether .vacations is right for you, and it is worth deciding before you look at anything else on this page.
Binky Moon delegated the extension on 13 February 2014 and sells it alongside .holiday, which is the same idea in the other dialect. The prices are not the same: .vacations is £34.99 a year here and .holiday is £56.99. If your audience really is American, the cheaper extension is also the correct one, which is not a combination that comes up often.
For a UK letting agency or tour operator selling to British customers, the word is simply wrong. It reads as an American import or as a translation slip, and the plural adds a second small problem: it suits a catalogue better than a company. Names such as cornish.vacations or lakedistrict.vacations read as a listing site, which is right if that is what you are building and odd if you own three cottages and a converted barn.
Is .vacations the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.vacations works well if
- Your customers are American and you want their word for it, on a listings site where the plural fits a catalogue of properties.
- You already run a .holiday or a .co.uk and want a matching address for the US market, pointed at pages written in American English.
- You are naming a region or a category rather than a company, so the plural reads as a collection rather than as a business.
Look elsewhere if
- Your customers are British. They search for holidays and they book holidays, and a US spelling in the address bar reads like somebody else's website.
- Local search matters. .vacations is generic in Google's terms, so it does nothing for a UK letting business that a .co.uk would not do better and cheaper.
- You are one small operator. The plural promises a catalogue, and an address promising a catalogue that then shows three cottages sets the wrong expectation.
Letting to British holidaymakers? A .co.uk costs £9.99, uses their word for it, and reads as UK to Google. See .co.uk pricing.
.vacations vs .holiday: which should you register?
Same product, two dialects and a £22 a year gap. .vacations is £34.99 here and .holiday is £56.99, which makes the British word the expensive one.
Choose on audience rather than on price, though. If you are selling British holidays to British people, .holiday says it in their language and the extra cost is what you pay for not sounding foreign. If your bookings come from the United States, .vacations is both the right word and the cheaper one. If you sell to both, run one as the address of record and the other as a redirect, and let the page content rather than the domain do the localising.
.vacations domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .vacations domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyFor British customers, .holiday, though a .co.uk beats both. Vacation is American English and a UK holidaymaker will read it as an imported word, which is a small friction at exactly the point where you want none. .holiday costs £56.99 a year here against £34.99 for .vacations, so the right word is also the dearer one. Neither carries any search advantage, because Google treats both as generic. If you are letting cottages in Cornwall to people in Coventry, register the .co.uk and put the difference into photography.
Yes. It is an open Binky Moon extension with no travel trade check, no local presence rule and no documents to supply. Anyone anywhere can register one. Bear in mind that selling holidays in the UK can bring obligations that have nothing to do with the domain: a package that includes a flight falls under the ATOL Regulations administered by the Civil Aviation Authority, and packages generally fall under the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018. The extension is unregulated; what you sell through it may not be.
It will not stop anyone booking, but it does cost you a little credibility with a British audience. Vacations is a word Britons recognise and do not use, so a .vacations address on a Cornish cottage site reads as though it was written for somebody else, or by somebody else. On a listings platform selling into the US market it reads perfectly. The test is simple: say the address out loud to somebody in your target market and watch whether they pause. If they do, buy the .co.uk.
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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