.international Domain
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Register your .international domain from just £28.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .international domain?
The .international domain makes a clear statement about your business scope. Import-export firms, international charities, and global staffing agencies all need a web address that reflects their cross-border operations. It's a long extension, but the message it sends is worth every character.
Who should register .international?
Import-export businesses, international charities, global recruitment firms, and cross-border trade organisations.
Why choose .international?
- Unambiguous international scope
- Strong for cross-border businesses
- Builds trust with foreign partners
- Differentiates from domestic competitors
Who runs .international, and since when
Registry data from the .international 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 19 December 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with no requirement to trade in more than one country
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £28.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .international is long, and when the length pays
Thirteen characters. That is the commitment, and it is the first thing to weigh, because those characters attach themselves to every email address, letterhead and business card you produce for as long as you hold the name. enquiries@brightline.international runs to 34 characters before anybody has typed a word of the message.
Set against that, it says in one word what other extensions cannot say at all. A freight forwarder, an export agent or a cross-border recruiter spends the opening line of every pitch establishing that it works outside one country. This extension does that in the address bar, in a word that reads the same in most European languages, which is why it survives on a bilingual business card.
It was among the earliest of the new generic extensions, delegated in December 2013 to Wild Way LLC and now operated by Binky Moon within Identity Digital. No eligibility rule was ever attached to it. You do not have to prove you trade abroad, nobody asks, and registration is open to anyone anywhere.
Where we would use it: as the main address for a business whose entire proposition is crossing borders, and only where the name in front of the dot is short. Where we would not: anywhere the company name already runs long. midlandsfreightsolutions.international is 38 characters and somebody will mistype it every week. Say the whole thing out loud before you buy, then say it again down a phone line, and see whether it comes back correctly.
Is .international the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.international works well if
- Cross-border trade is the business, not a sideline, so the word describes what you actually sell rather than an ambition.
- The name in front of the dot is one short word, which keeps the whole address inside a length people will retype accurately.
- You deal with partners in several languages and want an extension that is legible to all of them without translation.
- You need to look different from domestic competitors on a page of search results where everyone else shows a national extension.
Look elsewhere if
- Your company name is long already. Thirteen extra characters turn a workable address into one that gets mistyped and truncated.
- Most of your customers are British. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that this extension does not, and it costs less.
- You take a lot of enquiries by phone. Spelling out thirteen characters to somebody writing it down is a poor first impression.
Long company name, UK customers? The .co.uk will be shorter to say and stronger in local search. See .co.uk pricing.
.international vs .global: which should you register?
These two chase the same buyer and differ in tone and in price. .international is descriptive and slightly formal, the word a shipping agent or an export consultancy would use in its own literature. .global is shorter, broader and reads as more of a brand statement than a description.
Cost separates them sharply. .global is the dearest extension in our business range and .international sits well below it, closer to the middle. For a small firm renewing every year that gap compounds, and it buys three fewer characters and a slightly bolder claim.
Our steer is to let the company name decide. A short brand carries .global comfortably. A descriptive trading name, the sort that already contains words like freight, logistics or trade, sits better with .international, because the two halves are speaking the same register.
| .international | .global | |
|---|---|---|
| Characters after the dot | 13 | 6 |
| Tone | Descriptive and formal | Broad brand statement |
| Annual cost | Middle of the range | Premium |
| Delegated | December 2013 | 2014 |
| Eligibility check | None | None |
.international domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .international domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyIt is long enough to matter, and whether that is a problem depends on the word in front of it. Thirteen characters after the dot is fine behind a short brand and painful behind a descriptive trading name. Write your full email address on paper, read it to somebody over the phone, and see what they write down. If it survives that, the length is not your problem.
.international describes how you work and .global describes how far you reach, and .global costs considerably more. Both are generic extensions with no eligibility rules and no country signal in search. The practical difference is register: .international reads as trade and logistics language, .global reads as brand language, and the shorter one is easier to fit on a business card.
No. There is no eligibility test and nobody verifies the claim, which is worth knowing in both directions. You can register one before you have made a single overseas sale, and so can everybody else, so the extension carries no weight as proof. If international credibility is the goal, the registered address, the currencies you quote and the shipping terms on your site will do far more for it than the domain.
It can rank, but it gets no help from the extension. Google treats generic extensions as having no country signal, so a .international neither gains nor loses ground on nationality alone, while a .co.uk gets read as a British site. If your best-converting searches are UK ones, that is a point against, and the usual fix is to run the .co.uk as the indexed site and redirect the .international to it.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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