.ventures Domain
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Register your .ventures domain from just £48.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .ventures domain?
The .ventures domain carries entrepreneurial energy. Venture capital firms, startup accelerators, and new business units all trade on the concept of venturing into something new. It implies risk, ambition, and the willingness to back ideas with capital. Joint ventures and corporate innovation labs find it a fitting extension too.
Who should register .ventures?
Venture capital firms, startup accelerators, joint ventures, and corporate innovation labs.
Why choose .ventures?
- Carries entrepreneurial energy
- Implies ambition and risk-taking
- Perfect for VC and startup branding
- Works for joint ventures and new divisions
Who runs .ventures, and since when
Registry data from the .ventures 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 31 October 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no investment or corporate requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £48.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
When .ventures beats a .com for fund branding
The word does two separate jobs, which is unusual and part of the appeal. In investment it is a firm-name suffix, so Ashcroft Ventures becomes ashcroft.ventures and the repetition disappears. Outside investment it is a label for a group of unrelated side businesses, the thing people reach for when "Holdings" sounds too corporate and "Group" is taken. Both readings land on the same extension and neither confuses the other.
It was delegated at the end of October 2013, the same day as .holdings, and the two solve the same naming problem from opposite ends: one for the entity that owns things quietly, one for the entity that backs things loudly. Plenty of groups end up wanting both.
Against that, it is eight letters and among the pricier endings in this group, several times a .co.uk every year. Say ashcroft.ventures aloud to somebody taking it down and you will get asked to repeat it. For a fund whose founders and limited partners deal in .com by default, that friction is real, and it is the reason most funds still register the .com and use this as the memorable one.
Is .ventures the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.ventures works well if
- Your firm name ends in "Ventures", so the extension finishes it and you drop a repeated word from the address.
- You are launching a fund or accelerator and the .com for your name is either taken or priced in the aftermarket.
- You want a home for a group of unrelated side businesses where "Holdings" would read as too formal for what you actually do.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a startup rather than an investor. The word describes what backs you, not what you sell, and customers will read it as a fund.
- You give the address out by phone or on calls. Eight letters after the dot invites a spelling every time, which a .com never does.
- You are watching costs in year one. It renews at several times a .co.uk annually, which is hard to defend before you have raised anything.
If the .com for your name is available at retail, take it and keep this as the second address. See .com pricing.
.ventures vs .holdings: which should you register?
Same registry, same delegation date, opposite tone. A .holdings describes an entity that owns other businesses and is usually read as passive and structural, which suits a parent company whose audience is auditors, banks and shareholders. A .ventures describes an entity that backs new things and reads as active, which suits a fund, an accelerator or an innovation arm whose audience is founders.
Pick by who is going to read it. If the address will mostly appear on filings, statutory pages and correspondence with professional advisers, .holdings is the more accurate word. If it will appear in pitch decks, on a portfolio page and in the hands of people looking for money, .ventures is. Groups that do both frequently register the pair and let each entity own the one that matches what it actually does.
.ventures domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .ventures domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. There is no eligibility requirement of any kind, and the second common use has nothing to do with investment: it is a label for a person or family running several unrelated businesses under one banner. That said, the investment reading is the dominant one, so a trading company on a .ventures should expect some visitors to assume it is a fund. If that assumption would work against you, it is a reason to pick something else.
A .com, in most cases. Customers type it by reflex, investors expect it, and it never has to be spelled out on a call. The word "ventures" describes the money behind a company rather than what the company sells, so on a product site it can read as slightly off. Where the .ventures fits properly is the fund or accelerator itself, or a group entity sitting above several products, and even then the .com for the same name is worth holding if it is available at retail.
Wholesale pricing on keywords the registry judges commercially valuable, and finance keywords sit near the top of that list. Nominet prices .co.uk low because it registers them in huge volume; a niche corporate ending has no such volume to spread costs across. The figure to plan around is the renewal rather than the first year, because it stays the same annually for as long as you hold the name. Over a fund's ten-year life that is a line item worth checking.
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