.villas Domain
Luxury Living Starts at the URL
Register your .villas domain from just £48.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .villas domain?
The .villas domain is tailored for the luxury holiday rental and villa sales market. Villa complexes in the Mediterranean, Caribbean rental agencies, and luxury property developers all share a customer base that expects quality from the first touchpoint. A .villas domain sets that tone before a single photograph loads.
Who should register .villas?
Villa rental agencies, luxury property developers, Mediterranean holiday operators, and Caribbean vacation companies.
Why choose .villas?
- Premium holiday property branding
- Immediately signals luxury
- Perfect for Mediterranean and Caribbean
- Appeals to high-value customers
Who runs .villas, and since when
Registry data from the .villas 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
- 2014
- Delegated 6 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no property ownership or letting agency requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £48.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Winning direct bookings with a .villas address
Almost every villa business has the same underlying problem, and it is not branding. The booking platforms bring the guests and take a cut of every reservation, and the only lever that changes the economics is getting repeat guests to come back directly. A memorable, spoken address is part of that lever, because it is what goes on the welcome folder, the fridge magnet and the departure email.
.villas is well suited to that job and badly suited to being a company's only address if the portfolio is one house. The plural promises a collection, and a guest who arrives expecting several properties and finds one notices the gap. There is no singular .villa in the root zone, so this is a decision about whether the plural fits, not a choice between two forms.
The registry is settled: IANA delegated .villas on 6 February 2014 to New Sky, LLC, and Binky Moon has held it since the bulk transfer recorded on 23 March 2018. The ICANN agreement was signed on 5 December 2013 and is Base and Non-Sponsored, so no ownership test, no agency licence and no local presence rule applies.
One point that runs against the usual advice on this site. A .co.uk tells Google the site is aimed at Britain, which helps a UK business selling to UK customers. If your villas are in Andalusia and your guests are German, Dutch and Scandinavian as well as British, that signal is pointing at the wrong country. This is one of the cases where a country-neutral extension is the better answer rather than the expensive one.
Is .villas the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.villas works well if
- You let several properties and want repeat guests to book directly next time, so the address has to survive being written on a welcome folder and remembered a year later.
- Your guests come from more than one country, which makes a UK country-code address the wrong geographic signal rather than a helpful one.
- You sell or develop villas as well as letting them, and want one address that covers both without reading as a holiday listing site.
- The .com for your property or complex name went years ago, and the plural extension lets you keep the name intact instead of padding it.
Look elsewhere if
- You have one villa. The plural over-promises before the page loads, and the first thing a visitor does is look for the other properties.
- It costs about five times a .co.uk every year, on a business where most bookings still arrive through platforms that never show your domain to anybody.
- Spelled out on the phone to a British caller it takes explaining, and villas is a word that invites the American vacation spelling in the search box just before it.
One property, one name you want people to remember? A .com is cheaper and asks nothing of the listener. See .com pricing.
.villas vs .holiday: which should you register?
Both belong to Binky Moon and both entered the root zone within two months of each other, .holiday on 19 December 2013 and .villas on 6 February 2014. The choice is between naming the property type and naming the occasion.
.villas describes what you have. It is precise, it filters out the wrong enquiries before they arrive, and it stops being accurate the day you add apartments or a boutique hotel to the portfolio. .holiday describes why the guest is coming, so it stretches across property types, tours, transfers and packages without straining, and it costs a little more.
If the portfolio is villas and will stay villas, take the precise word. If you are building something that will sell more than accommodation, the occasion word will outlast it.
| .villas | .holiday | |
|---|---|---|
| Registry | Binky Moon, LLC | Binky Moon, LLC |
| In the root zone since | 6 February 2014 | 19 December 2013 |
| What it names | The property type | The reason for the trip |
| Singular form exists | No, .villa is not delegated | It is the singular |
| Annual cost | About five times a .co.uk | A little more again |
.villas domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .villas domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, because .villa does not exist. IANA's list of delegated extensions has no singular form, so the plural is the only option and there is no risk of a visitor reaching a different owner by dropping the s. What they will reach is nothing, which fails cleanly. The near alternatives that do exist are .holiday, .vacations, .house and .rentals, and each names a different thing about the same business.
No. The ICANN agreement is Base and Non-Sponsored, so no ownership test, letting agency licence or local presence rule applies, and nothing about you is checked at the point of order. Agencies, management companies, developers and marketing sites all register on the same terms as owners. The honest caution is the other way round: the plural sets an expectation of choice, so registering one when you have a single property works against you.
It depends on where your guests are, which is unusual advice on this site. Google uses most country-code extensions to geotarget, so a .co.uk tells it your pages are aimed at Britain. That helps if your guests are British and works against you if a good share of your bookings come from Germany, the Netherlands or the United States. A country-neutral extension avoids pointing the site at one market when the market is several.
Not on its own, and anyone promising otherwise is selling something. What a short, describable address does is make direct booking possible at the moments platforms cannot reach: the welcome folder in the property, the departure email, the card handed over at the airport transfer. The domain is the thing a guest can remember and type next year. Everything that converts them after that is your site, your photographs and your pricing.
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