.flights Domain
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Register your .flights domain from just £48.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .flights domain?
The .flights domain is designed for flight comparison sites, airlines, travel agents specialising in airfare, and flight tracking services. Air travel is one of the most searched travel categories online, and .flights puts your site right where the intent is strongest.
Who should register .flights?
Flight comparison platforms, travel agents, airlines, charter companies, and flight-tracking apps.
Why choose .flights?
- Matches high-intent flight searches
- Clear purpose from the address bar
- Great for comparison and booking sites
- Pairs naturally with route or brand names
Who runs .flights, and since when
Registry data from the .flights 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 30 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, though selling flights to UK consumers needs an ATOL
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £48.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What ATOL means for a UK .flights website
Selling flights to British consumers is a licensed activity, and no domain changes that. The Civil Aviation Authority is blunt about it: the ATOL Regulations set out who may advertise and sell air travel arrangements to consumers in the UK, and unless you are an airline selling your own seats or you fall inside one of the exemptions listed in Regulation 10, you must hold your own ATOL. The rules apply to businesses established outside the UK as well, if they are advertising and selling to UK consumers.
That is relevant here because .flights is exactly the extension people reach for when building that kind of site. Binky Moon delegated it on 30 January 2014 and it is open to anyone, with nothing verified. The registry will happily sell a .flights to a business with no right to sell flights at all.
One more thing, worth stating plainly. The CAA publishes a list of websites that have falsely claimed to hold an ATOL or to offer ATOL protection. Read it and you will notice that they are ordinary .com and .co.uk addresses. Extensions are not a trust signal in this market, in either direction. Your ATOL number is.
Is .flights the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.flights works well if
- You run a comparison or search product where the plural fits, and the address is meant to describe a catalogue rather than one brand.
- You are a charter operator, air taxi firm or private jet broker whose customers understand the category already and are not price-shopping.
- You want a category address beside a brand domain, pointed at a landing page for one route, one airport or one season.
Look elsewhere if
- Cost. At £48.99 a year this is the joint dearest extension in our travel range, five times a .co.uk, renewing for the life of the business.
- You are chasing head terms. "Cheap flights" belongs to the comparison giants and the airlines, and no extension changes who ranks there.
- Your ATOL position is not settled. A category address on an unlicensed flight seller is a compliance problem wearing a smart name.
Selling to UK travellers? Buy the .co.uk, put the ATOL number in the footer, and spend the difference on being findable. See .co.uk pricing.
.flights vs .com: which should you register?
The airlines and the large comparison sites all sit on .com or a national extension, and none of them moved when .flights arrived. That tells you most of what you need about which one a traveller trusts on sight.
A .com is £15.49 here against £48.99 for a .flights, and it carries no category meaning at all. So the exchange is roughly £33 a year for a word in the address bar. That is worth paying when the address is doing marketing work: a route campaign, a printed advert, a radio read. It is poor value as the permanent home of a business, because what converts a flight booking is a licence number and a refund policy, not a suffix.
.flights domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .flights domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYou need one to sell, not to register. The Civil Aviation Authority states that the ATOL Regulations govern who may advertise and sell air travel arrangements to consumers in the UK, and that unless you are an airline selling its own services or you are acting in an exempt capacity under Regulation 10, you must hold your own ATOL. Exemptions include acting as agent for an ATOL holder and being a member of an accredited body. The rules also reach businesses based abroad that sell to UK consumers.
Yes. .flights is an open Binky Moon extension with no aviation, travel trade or licensing check at the point of registration. Nobody asks whether you hold an ATOL, an IATA accreditation or anything else. That is worth understanding from both sides of the transaction: registering one takes minutes, and the extension therefore proves nothing to a customer. The CAA maintains a public list of sites that have falsely claimed ATOL protection, and the addresses on it look entirely ordinary, which is the point.
No. Google treats extensions that ICANN has not designated as country codes as generic domains, and the words inside an extension are not a ranking factor. A .flights site starts level with a .com and behind a .co.uk for searches made in Britain. Flight search is also one of the most fiercely contested categories on the web, dominated by comparison engines and airline sites with enormous authority. If you are competing there, the domain is the least of the levers. Choose it for how it reads, not for what you hope it does.
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