.property Domain
The Premium Choice for Property Businesses
Register your .property domain from just £109.00/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .property domain?
The .property domain is a premium, authoritative choice for businesses across the property sector. From estate agents and developers to investment firms, .property carries a weight and professionalism that generic extensions simply cannot match.
Who should register .property?
Property developers, investment firms, estate agents, landlords, and property management companies.
Why choose .property?
- Premium feel for a premium industry
- Suits development, investment, and management
- Authoritative and professional tone
- Strong choice for portfolio websites
Who runs .property, and since when
Registry data from the .property 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
- Digital Property Infrastructure Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 15 August 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no agency licence, portfolio or company requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £109.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .property costs three times the plural .properties
Start with the bill, because on .property the bill is the story. It is one of the dearest extensions on this site: roughly eleven times a .co.uk, and about three times .properties, which sits in the same root zone doing a similar job. Nothing technical separates them. Resolution, DNSSEC and record types are identical. The gap is what the registry has decided the singular word is worth, and you pay it again every year for as long as the business exists.
The word does earn some of that back. .properties reads as a schedule of stock. .property reads as the subject itself, which fits a development company, an investment vehicle or a portfolio holder rather better than it fits a high street agency chasing local instructions.
The ownership history is worth knowing before committing a decade of renewals. IANA delegated .property on 15 August 2014 to Uniregistry, Corp. It passed to Internet Naming Co. on 16 November 2022, then to Digital Property Infrastructure Limited, a British Virgin Islands company, on 1 November 2023, with Tucows as the technical operator behind it. The ICANN agreement was signed on 22 May 2014 and is Base and Non-Sponsored, so nobody vets who registers. No licence, no company number, no evidence you own a square foot of anything.
Two registry transfers in a decade broke nothing for existing holders, and transfers are normal, ICANN-supervised events. Worth noting anyway: there is no dedicated .property information site. nic.property resolves to the manager's corporate pages. If you were hoping the registry would help you sell the choice internally, it publishes nothing to help you.
Is .property the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.property works well if
- You hold, develop or invest in property rather than list other people's, so an address naming the subject fits better than one implying a schedule of stock.
- Your firm name is common enough that the .co.uk is long, hyphenated or gone, and one clean word in front of .property beats three words in front of anything.
- You want an address that survives a change of direction, because the word covers development, investment, management and sales without leaning towards any of them.
- Your average transaction is large enough that the annual renewal is a rounding error rather than a line item you argue about.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a branch agency taking instructions from one town. Google uses most country-code extensions to geotarget; a .co.uk says British, and this one says nothing at all.
- It costs around three times .properties every year, and the plural is a live extension run by a different company doing much the same work.
- People add and drop the s without thinking. Because .properties exists and belongs to someone else, a mistyped address can land on a stranger instead of failing.
Taking instructions from one town? A .co.uk costs a fraction of this and carries the UK signal Google says it reads. See .co.uk pricing.
.property vs .properties: which should you register?
This looks like a spelling decision and is not. .property was delegated on 15 August 2014 and has changed registry operator twice since. .properties entered the root zone on 30 January 2014 and has sat with Binky Moon since a bulk transfer in March 2018. Two companies, two price lists, no shared ownership and no shared registration.
.properties sets up a list. A visitor expects available units and gets them. .property sets up the subject, which suits a developer, a fund or a family office that never publishes a schedule at all and would look odd promising one.
Money settles most of these. If the singular is not doing something the plural cannot, take the plural and put the difference into photography, which will sell more units than either address.
| .property | .properties | |
|---|---|---|
| Registry | Digital Property Infrastructure Limited | Binky Moon, LLC |
| In the root zone since | 15 August 2014 | 30 January 2014 |
| Registry transfers | Two, in 2022 and 2023 | One, in 2018 |
| What the word promises | The subject itself | A list of available stock |
| Annual cost | About eleven times a .co.uk | About three and a half times a .co.uk |
.property domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .property domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyThe registry sets the wholesale price and has pitched .property as a premium single-word extension rather than a volume one. Nothing technical justifies it: the DNS behaviour, DNSSEC support and record types are the same as any other extension on this site. You are paying for the word. Check the figure on this page against .properties and .co.uk before you order, and multiply it by however many years you expect the business to run, because it recurs.
No. The ICANN registry agreement behind it is Base and Non-Sponsored, which means no community body or trade authority vets registrations. There is no licence check, no company number check and no requirement to own or manage anything. Separately, and regardless of your domain, property agents in the UK carry their own regulatory obligations, and those belong in your footer alongside the company number rather than in the address bar.
Twice. IANA delegated it to Uniregistry, Corp. on 15 August 2014, recorded a transfer to Internet Naming Co. on 16 November 2022, and a further transfer to Digital Property Infrastructure Limited on 1 November 2023. Registry transfers run through an ICANN approval process and existing registrations carry over untouched, so nothing broke for holders. It is still worth knowing when you are choosing an address you intend to print on hoardings.
For most UK agents, no. Google uses most country-code extensions to geotarget, so a .co.uk tells it your site is aimed at Britain while .property tells it nothing about geography at all. Estate agency searches are relentlessly local, and the ranking work sits with your Google Business Profile, branch pages and area coverage rather than the extension. Where .property earns its keep is developers and investors selling to a national or international buyer.
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