.party Domain
Where the Celebration Starts
Register your .party domain from just £23.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .party domain?
The .party domain is built for the events and celebration industry. Party planners, venue hire companies, balloon suppliers, and DJ services all operate in a market driven by fun and excitement. A .party domain captures that energy and tells visitors your site is the place to start planning.
Who should register .party?
Party planners, venue hire companies, balloon and decoration suppliers, DJ services, and children's party entertainers.
Why choose .party?
- Captures celebration energy
- Ideal for event services
- Fun and instantly understood
- Memorable for party planners and guests
Who runs .party, and since when
Registry data from the .party 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
- Blue Sky Registry Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 23 October 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, including political parties and event businesses
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £23.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Two industries want .party and only one knows it
The obvious audience for .party is celebrations: planners, marquee hire, entertainers, balloon suppliers, mobile discos. The less obvious one is politics, where a party is an organisation and yourmovement.party is a shorter, clearer address than most political websites manage. Blue Sky Registry Limited, a Gibraltar company, does not distinguish between them, and neither does the DNS.
That double meaning is worth thinking about rather than smiling at. If you run children's entertainment, an extension a reader might also associate with political campaigning is a mild negative you will occasionally have to explain. If you are the political side, the association with novelty extensions cuts the other way and you may prefer something plainer. Say the whole address aloud before you buy it, then have somebody else say it back to you.
On the registry side, the operating functions sit with Global Registry Services, whose portfolio also covers .loan, .win, .bid, .download and .stream. That is worth knowing for email deliverability more than for anything else. Test your booking confirmations against a few mailbox providers before the address goes on a leaflet, because a party business lives on confirmations arriving.
Is .party the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.party works well if
- You are a party planner, entertainer or hire company and the single word describes the entire business without a modifier.
- You are naming a political party, campaign or local branch and want an address that is shorter than the usual four-word alternative.
- You want an event-specific address for one recurring occasion, where the URL is easier to say at a venue than a long .co.uk.
Look elsewhere if
- You take bookings and deposits by email. Confirmation delivery is the lifeblood of an events business, and an unfamiliar extension is one more variable to test.
- Your work is mostly corporate or wedding rather than party. The word sets an expectation about tone that a wedding client may not want.
- You depend on local search. A UK extension carries a country signal in Google that this does not, and costs less than half as much.
Taking local bookings across a whole county? A .uk carries the country signal, transfers almost instantly, and costs far less. See .uk pricing.
.party vs .uk: which should you register?
A .uk is short, British and read by Google as a country signal, which is the thing that matters for a business whose customers all live within an hour's drive. It is also cheaper, and it moves between registrars almost instantly, because a .uk transfer is an IPS tag change rather than a multi-day process.
A .party gives you a descriptive word and a certain amount of charm. That is worth having on a leaflet or a van, and worth very little in a search result. The practical answer for most UK event businesses is the .uk as the working address, with the .party redirected to it and used where the audience is already in a good mood.
.party domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .party domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYes. There is no eligibility restriction of any kind, no registration with an electoral commission required and no check on what the word means to you. The ICANN registry agreement is a standard non-sponsored one with no community registration policy, so a political party, a party planner and a person who simply likes the word all register on identical terms, first come, first served. The extension has no official standing in either sense of the word.
It works well on printed material and badly in search. Google reads .party as a generic extension, so a party planner competing for local enquiries gets no geographic help from it, while a .co.uk or .uk does. The extension earns its place as a memorable second address: short, obvious and easy to read out at a venue. Keep the UK domain as the address on quotes, invoices and confirmation email, where familiarity is worth more than personality.
Blue Sky Registry Limited holds the ICANN registry agreement, signed on 11 September 2014, and is a limited company formed under the Gibraltar Companies Act. The operating and coordinating functions are provided by Global Registry Services Limited, which runs sixteen extensions in total, .loan, .win, .bid, .stream, .download, .science and .men among them. That portfolio is public information on the registry's own site and is worth a look before you decide, because the neighbours affect how an address is read.
Included with Your .party 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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