.memorial Domain
Honouring Lives Online
Register your .memorial domain from just £38.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .memorial domain?
The .memorial domain provides a respectful digital space for tribute sites, obituary collections, and remembrance projects. Families, funeral directors, and memorial charities use it to create lasting online tributes. The extension carries solemnity and respect, which matters when the content is deeply personal.
Who should register .memorial?
Funeral directors, memorial charities, family tribute sites, and remembrance project organisers.
Why choose .memorial?
- Carries solemnity and respect
- Provides a lasting digital tribute
- Appropriate tone for sensitive content
- Used by families and professionals alike
Who runs .memorial, and since when
Registry data from the .memorial 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
- Dog Beach, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 20 November 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with no eligibility rules for families, charities or funeral businesses
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £38.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Keeping a .memorial site alive past ten years
A memorial is meant to last and a domain name is not built that way. Under the ICANN base registry agreement that governs .memorial, an initial registration can be made in one-year increments up to a maximum of ten years, and renewals work to the same cap. There is no perpetual option and no way to pay once and be finished with it. Somebody has to renew, at least once a decade, for as long as the site is meant to stand.
What happens when nobody does is the part families rarely expect. The name expires, passes through the grace and redemption periods, and returns to the pool where anyone at all can register it. A tribute site that lapses does not quietly disappear. It becomes available to a stranger.
None of that argues against .memorial. It argues for planning. Put the renewal on a payment method that will not expire with the person managing it, make sure more than one family member knows the address and the login, and take the full ten-year term at the outset. Dog Beach, LLC runs the extension under a plain base agreement with no eligibility rules, so a funeral director, a charity and a family are all equally entitled to register one.
Is .memorial the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.memorial works well if
- You are a funeral director offering tribute pages, and the extension explains what the site is to a grieving family at a glance.
- You are building a remembrance project for a group: a regiment, a disaster, a community that lost people at the same time.
- The word matters more to you than the length. Eight characters after the dot is a lot, but nobody misreads what the address is for.
Look elsewhere if
- Nobody has agreed to own the renewal. When it lapses, the name returns to the open pool and a family tribute becomes somebody else's domain.
- The site is one page for one person. A path under a family or firm domain you already hold costs nothing and never expires on its own.
- You want the shortest address a grieving relative can type from memory. .memorial is long, and long addresses get mistyped in the worst circumstances.
Offering tribute pages as part of a funeral business? Pages under your existing .co.uk keep everything on one renewal. See .co.uk pricing.
.memorial vs .co.uk: which should you register?
For a UK funeral business, the .co.uk is the cheaper and safer home. Putting tributes on a path under it means one domain, one renewal and one thing to forget rather than several, and it keeps the memorial pages attached to a business that has a commercial reason to keep paying the bill.
.memorial earns its place when the project stands on its own: a charity, a community remembrance archive, something intended to outlive whatever organisation started it. There the extension does real work, because it says what the site is before anybody reads a word. Whichever you pick, write down who renews it and tell a second person.
.memorial domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .memorial domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyIt expires, and after the grace and redemption periods it returns to the pool for anyone to register. There is no protection because the site is a memorial, and no registry anywhere treats one differently. Plan for it: name a second person who knows the registrar login, use a payment card that is not tied to one individual, and set the renewal reminder somewhere a family will actually see it. Taking a ten-year term at the outset is worth more here than on any other extension.
Ten years at most, in one-year increments, and the same cap applies to renewals. That is not a policy specific to .memorial. The ICANN base registry agreement governing every extension of this generation limits both initial registrations and renewals to ten years, so nobody can sell you a domain in perpetuity. For a memorial site, taking the full ten years is the closest thing to permanence available, and it cuts down the number of moments when somebody has to remember.
For a single tribute, a page on a site you already run is usually the better answer. It costs nothing extra, it is covered by a renewal you were paying anyway, and it does not create a second thing to look after. .memorial makes sense when the project is separate from any existing site, when several families or organisations contribute to it, or when the address itself has to explain the site to people arriving from a printed order of service.
Included with Your .memorial 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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