.city Domain
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Register your .city domain from just £26.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .city domain?
The .city domain is built for local authorities, city guides, and urban community portals. It works for official municipal sites and for independent platforms celebrating a city's culture, food, events, and nightlife. Pair it with a city name and you've got a web address that people will remember.
Who should register .city?
Local councils, city tourism boards, urban event guides, and community news platforms.
Why choose .city?
- Pairs naturally with city names
- Works for official and community sites
- Strong local identity signal
- Ideal for tourism and events
Who runs .city, and since when
Registry data from the .city 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 3 July 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, though country and territory names are reserved
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £26.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Does .city help local search in the UK
The most common reason people want a .city domain is the one reason it does not work. It looks geographic, so it feels as though it ought to tell Google where you are. It does not. Google treats city and region extensions as ordinary generic extensions, the same as .com or .org, and local relevance still has to come from your content, your Business Profile and, in the UK, your .co.uk.
Once that is out of the way, the extension has a real job. Put a city name in front of the dot and the whole address becomes the name of the thing: a listings site, an events calendar, a guide, a what-is-on-this-weekend page. It reads at a distance, which matters on a poster or a bus stop where a hyphenated .co.uk is unreadable, and it survives being said aloud on local radio without spelling.
Two limits are worth knowing before you search. ICANN requires every new extension to withhold the short-form names of countries and territories at all levels, so a substantial slice of the geography people reach for first is not for sale at any price. And Binky Moon, which has held the extension since its delegation on 3 July 2014, keeps an unpublished premium list, so a desirable city name can carry a very different price from the one shown here.
One more thing, for anyone in the public sector. UK local authorities publish on .gov.uk. A council-adjacent site on a .city sitting beside an official .gov.uk invites confusion about which one is real, and that confusion tends to matter most in exactly the situations where it is least welcome.
Even if they look region-specific, we will treat them as gTLDs. This is consistent with our handling of regional TLDs like .eu and .asia.
What that means if you are buying one
Google adds a caveat that there may be exceptions later, and its own banner now marks the post as old, so treat this as the last thing Google published on the subject rather than a promise about next year. Either way, plan as though the extension gives you nothing locally, and let your content and your .co.uk carry that work.
Is .city the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.city works well if
- You publish a guide, a listings site or an events calendar for one city, and the city name in front of the dot is the entire name.
- The address goes on posters, vinyl and street furniture, where a long hyphenated alternative is unreadable at ten paces.
- You are building a network of city sites and want one naming pattern that extends to the next town without a rebrand.
- You read the address out on local radio or at events, and it has to work first time without spelling.
Look elsewhere if
- You expect it to help you rank locally. It will not: Google treats city extensions as generic, so the local work still falls to your content and a .co.uk.
- You are a council or public body. Official UK local government sits on .gov.uk, and a .city beside it muddies which site residents should trust.
- Country and territory names are withheld at every level under ICANN policy, and the registry holds back premium strings on top, so the obvious names are frequently unavailable.
Selling to people in one city? A .co.uk still carries the UK signal in Google that a .city cannot. See .co.uk pricing.
.city vs .co.uk: which should you register?
These two look like they do the same job and they do not. One is read by people, the other is read by search engines.
A .city is read by people. Put a city name in front of it and a human being knows instantly what the site covers, which is why it works on print and in speech. A .co.uk is read by Google. It is a country-code extension, so it tells Google the site is probably more relevant to searchers in the UK, and that is a signal a .city has never carried and, on Google's published position, does not carry now.
For a local guide that gets its traffic from search, the .co.uk is the one that pays for itself. For one that gets it from posters, partnerships and word of mouth, the .city is doing something the .co.uk cannot. Most sites in this space want both, and the cost of the second one is small next to the cost of choosing wrong.
| .city | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic signal | None; treated as generic | United Kingdom |
| Reads as local | Yes, to one city | Yes, nationally |
| Root zone since | 2014 | .uk delegated 1985 |
| Transfer speed | Hours to days | Near instant, by IPS tag |
| Annual cost here | Around three times a .co.uk | Our lowest price band |
.city domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .city domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Google has said it treats region and city extensions as generic extensions, in line with how it handles .eu and .asia, so a .city sends no geographic signal at all. Local visibility comes from the places it always did: content that names the areas you serve, a properly filled-in Google Business Profile, consistent contact details and reviews. If local search is where your traffic comes from, a .co.uk gives you a UK signal that a .city does not, and costs less.
No. Every new extension has to withhold the short-form names of countries and territories at all levels, under the reserved names schedule in ICANN's standard registry agreement. That covers the ISO 3166-1 list of country and territory names as well as the United Nations lists, so those strings are unavailable to everyone. City names themselves are not covered by that rule, but the registry keeps its own premium list, so a well-known city name may sit far above the price shown on this page.
No, and in the UK it is a poor fit for them. Local authorities here publish on .gov.uk, which is the address residents are told to trust, so a council site on a .city creates ambiguity rather than clarity. The extension suits independent operators: city guides, listings and events sites, food and nightlife directories, community news, tourism projects. It is open to anyone worldwide with no eligibility test, so nothing stops a private publisher taking a city name.
The registry prices it higher, and that is all there is to it. Technically the two are identical: the same DNS, the same DNSSEC support, the same records. A .city runs at roughly three times the annual cost of a .co.uk here, and because a domain is a recurring bill rather than a purchase, that difference compounds for as long as the site exists. If the address is going on print and into speech, the premium may be worth it. If it is only ever clicked, it probably is not.
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