.christmas Domain
Seasonal Cheer, Year-Round Branding
Register your .christmas domain from just £33.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .christmas domain?
The .christmas domain is perfect for businesses that revolve around the festive season. Christmas tree farms, gift hamper companies, holiday lighting installers, and advent calendar brands all peak at the same time of year. A .christmas domain tells customers they've found a specialist, not a generic retailer with a seasonal tab.
Who should register .christmas?
Christmas tree farms, festive gift companies, holiday lighting services, and seasonal event organisers.
Why choose .christmas?
- Targets the biggest retail season
- Signals a Christmas specialist
- Memorable for repeat seasonal buyers
- Fun and festive branding
Who runs .christmas, and since when
Registry data from the .christmas 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
- XYZ.COM LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 13 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, all year round, with no seasonal or trade restriction
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £33.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The .christmas domain and the eight-week trading year
A .christmas domain is a twelve-month bill for a business that trades hard for about eight weeks. That is the arithmetic nobody puts on a registry page, and it is the first thing to settle. It costs roughly what a .shop does, so the question is not affordability but whether a seasonal word earns more over the year than a permanent one would.
Where it pays is the specialist. A tree grower, a hamper company, a lights installer or a grotto operator is understood the moment the address is read, and it survives being painted on the side of a van. Where it stops working is the general retailer who does Christmas among other things, because the address then names a department rather than the business.
One practical detail worth planning for. Your renewal falls on the anniversary of the order, so buying in November means renewing every November, in the week you are least likely to open a renewal notice. Turn auto-renew on, check the card on file has not expired, and diarise it for the quiet part of January. A lapsed domain in the first week of December is not a problem you want to have.
Is .christmas the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.christmas works well if
- Christmas is the whole business, not a season within it: trees, wreaths, hampers, lights, grottos, festive events.
- You send a seasonal campaign every year and want a URL that reads as the campaign rather than a folder inside your main site.
- The obvious .co.uk for your festive brand has been sitting parked since 2011 and the owner will not sell it.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a gift shop that peaks at Christmas but trades all year. The address will look wrong for ten months out of twelve.
- Your renewal date lands in your busiest fortnight, and you have a history of missing renewal emails. That risk is real and the timing makes it worse.
- You want the extension to help you rank for Christmas searches. It will not; the seasonal traffic goes to pages that have been building authority since summer.
Trading all year with a seasonal peak? A .shop or a .co.uk carries the business, and a festive landing page carries the season. See .shop pricing.
.christmas vs .shop: which should you register?
The two cost about the same, which makes this a clean comparison for once. A .shop says you sell things and stays true in March. A .christmas says exactly what you sell and stops making sense the moment the trees come down. For a specialist that precision is the value. For anyone with a wider catalogue it is a liability you pay for annually.
Where a business really does have two faces, the tidy arrangement is a .shop or .co.uk as the trading address and a .christmas pointed at a seasonal landing page from October. That way the festive URL earns its keep in advertising without deciding what the company is for the rest of the year.
.christmas domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .christmas domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYes. There is no seasonal window and no restriction on who registers one, and buying in spring is the sensible move rather than the odd one. It gives search engines months to find and index the site before demand arrives, it keeps your renewal date away from your busiest fortnight, and it avoids competing for the same names as everyone else in October. The extension is open all year to anyone, anywhere, with nothing to prove.
XYZ.COM LLC is the operator ICANN records today. The extension was delegated in February 2014 under a registry agreement signed by Uniregistry, Corp., a Cayman Islands company, and it changed hands afterwards. None of that affects how the domain behaves: DNS resolution, DNSSEC, transfer rules and renewal terms are the same as any other generic extension. It is worth knowing only because a registry change is one of the reasons an old article about .christmas pricing may no longer be accurate.
It can be, but do the sum first. You pay every twelve months for something that earns in two, so compare the cost against what the clarity buys you: fewer explanations on the phone, a shorter address on the van, a URL a customer remembers from last year. For a tree farm or a lights installer that is often a fair trade. For a shop that adds a festive range in November it rarely is, and a seasonal landing page on the main domain does the same job for nothing.
Included with Your .christmas 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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Secure your .christmas domain from just £33.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included.
