.singles Domain
For Solo Living and Social Connection
Register your .singles domain from just £31.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .singles domain?
The .singles domain serves dating platforms, singles events, and communities built around solo living. Singles holidays, speed dating organisers, and social clubs for single people all benefit from a domain that speaks directly to their audience. It's also used by solo travel companies and independent living advocacy groups.
Who should register .singles?
Dating event organisers, singles holiday companies, solo travel platforms, and social clubs for single people.
Why choose .singles?
- Speaks directly to the target audience
- Works for dating and solo lifestyle
- Covers events, travel, and community
- Clear and unambiguous
Who runs .singles, and since when
Registry data from the .singles 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 31 October 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no age check, vetting or dating-industry membership
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £31.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The four meanings of .singles, and which one wins
Singles are records. Singles are tennis matches. Singles are one-bedroom flats and the smallest room in a hotel. And singles are unattached people looking for other unattached people, which is the meaning .singles was sold on and the one it has ended up carrying. Decide which of those four your visitors will assume before you buy, because the extension will not disambiguate for you.
It is one of the oldest strings from the 2012 application round, in the root zone since 31 October 2013, the same date as .guru, and delegated four days later to a company called Fern Madison, LLC. Both moved into Binky Moon under Identity Digital in the 196-extension consolidation of 23 March 2018. Registration has always been open. No age verification, no vetting, no requirement to be in the trade, and nothing about the extension vouches for the site behind it.
The practical risk is email rather than the web. A new domain starts with no sending reputation whatsoever, and a small extension gives filters less history to work from than a .co.uk that has been quietly sending for years. If bookings, confirmations and password resets are going out from this address, set SPF, DKIM and DMARC before the first send, build volume slowly, and check that confirmations are arriving rather than assuming they did because your system reported success.
Where it works cleanly is an events brand, a members club or a holiday operator whose whole proposition is the audience. Where we would steer you elsewhere is anywhere a reader might hear "records" first.
Is .singles the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.singles works well if
- You run events for single people, so naming the site after the audience is the entire point rather than a decoration.
- Your brand name followed by singles is the phrase people already use for you, and it fits comfortably in one breath.
- You want an address that filters its own visitors. Nobody lands on a .singles by accident and wonders what it is for.
- You already hold the .co.uk and want a plain-English second address for one strand of a wider business.
Look elsewhere if
- You publish music. A .singles address will be read as a record release before it is read as anything to do with people.
- The domain has to carry transactional email. A little-used extension gives spam filters less to go on, and delivery takes longer to settle than it would on an established .co.uk.
- Your audience is UK-only and local search matters. A .co.uk carries a country signal that .singles does not, at roughly a third of the annual price.
Running UK events and relying on local search? Put the business on a .co.uk and use this for the brand. See .co.uk pricing.
.singles vs .co.uk: which should you register?
One of these describes your audience and the other describes your country, and for a UK events business both facts are worth stating. The question is which one belongs in the address and which belongs on the page.
A .co.uk is read by Google as a British site, comes with free WHOIS privacy for UK individuals under Nominet's consent-based rules, transfers between registrars almost instantly because it is an IPS tag change, and costs a fraction of what a .singles does. Those are practical advantages that apply every year. A .singles gives you something a .co.uk cannot: an address that explains the proposition to a stranger in the time it takes to read it.
For most operators the sensible split is a .co.uk for the business, its invoices and its email, with a .singles pointing at the part of the site that faces members. That way the marketing gets the memorable address and the plumbing gets the reliable one.
| .singles | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| What it names | Who the site is for | Where the business is |
| Registry | Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital) | Nominet |
| Geographic signal | None | United Kingdom |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals |
| Transfer time | Days, plus a 60-day lock after registration | Near instant IPS tag change |
.singles domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .singles domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyAnyone in the world. Identity Digital applies no eligibility rules: there is no age check, no identity verification, no relationship-status question and no requirement to work in the dating sector. Registration is first come, first served once a name has cleared the launch phases. The only reasons a name is unavailable are that somebody holds it, that it sits on the ICANN or registry reserved lists, that it is priced as a premium name, or that a trademark holder has blocked it through DPML.
No, though that is what most people assume, and the assumption is the thing you are working with. The word covers solo travel, singles events, members clubs, one-bedroom property and single-person households just as well. It also means a music release and a tennis format, which is the ambiguity to test. Say your candidate address to three people who do not know the business and ask what they think the site sells. If two of them say records, choose something else.
Not by itself, but any new domain starts with no sending reputation and has to earn one. Set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC records before you send anything, start with low volumes to people who expect to hear from you, and watch bounces for the first few weeks. Every 365i domain includes free DNS management, so the records cost nothing to add. If the site handles bookings or payments, it is worth keeping transactional email on an established domain until the new one has settled.
It does nothing for it. Google treats new generic extensions as having no geographic meaning, so a .singles gives no signal that your events are in Kettering rather than Kentucky. A .co.uk does give that signal. If your enquiries come from people searching for something plus a town name, put the business on a .co.uk, fill in a Google Business Profile, and use the .singles as the brand address rather than the one you rely on for local search.
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Email Forwarding
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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