.zone Domain
Define Your Territory Online
Register your .zone domain from just £33.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .zone domain?
The .zone domain works for businesses and communities that occupy a defined space, whether physical or digital. Time zone tools, gaming zones, sports fan zones, and industrial zones all play on the word's meaning. It carries a sense of territory and belonging that more generic extensions miss.
Who should register .zone?
Gaming communities, sports fan zones, industrial park operators, and time zone utility tools.
Why choose .zone?
- Implies territory and belonging
- Works for digital and physical zones
- Versatile across industries
- Four letters, easy to remember
Who runs .zone, and since when
Registry data from the .zone 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 9 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no restriction on who may hold one
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £33.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The word .zone already means something in DNS
Here is the collision nobody selling this extension mentions. In the Domain Name System, a zone is the unit of delegated authority, and a zone file is the plain text file holding the records for it. Anyone who has ever edited DNS reads the word that way first. So example.zone lands with a technical audience as a pun or a test lab, and with everybody else as territory, which is what the extension is actually sold on.
.zone was delegated in January 2014 and is run by Binky Moon, LLC as part of the Identity Digital portfolio. It is open: no eligibility rules, no local presence, no documents. The plural does not exist, so nothing resolves at .zones and nobody can register it against you.
The word earns its place where a defined space is the actual product. Indoor climbing and trampoline venues, drop zones, fan zones on a matchday, enterprise zones and industrial estates, gaming communities that already use the word for their servers. In all of those the suffix is doing something the .co.uk cannot: it names the thing rather than sitting behind it. Where it falls down is anywhere general. Because "zone" carries no trade and no location, an ordinary business ends up with an address that is four letters long and says nothing.
Two practical points. It costs roughly three times a .co.uk each year, and unlike a .co.uk it gives Google no reason to associate you with Britain. If your customers reach you by searching for a town and a service, that matters. Our steer is the one we give on most of these: register the .co.uk to be found, register the .zone because it is the name you actually want to say out loud, and point one at the other.
Is .zone the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.zone works well if
- Your business really is a defined space, physical or online, and the word "zone" is already how customers describe it to each other.
- You run a venue, an activity centre or a matchday fan area where the address goes on signage and needs to be short enough to read from a distance.
- You are naming a gaming community or a server that already uses the word, in front of an audience who will not blink at a newer extension.
- The .co.uk for the name has gone and the alternatives all involve adding a word you do not want in the brand.
Look elsewhere if
- Your audience is technical. To a network engineer, "zone" is a DNS term, and yourcompany.zone reads as a demo rather than a business.
- You need local search visibility in the UK. This is a generic extension with no country signal, and it costs around three times what a .co.uk does every year.
- Your business does not occupy a space in any sense. Without that hook the word contributes nothing and the address is simply four extra letters to explain.
No physical or virtual "zone" in the business? A .co.uk will cost less and do more for you in UK search. See .co.uk pricing.
.zone vs .co.uk: which should you register?
A .co.uk is the default for a British business and a .zone is a naming device. They are rarely competing for the same job, and when they are, the .co.uk usually wins on the numbers.
Where .zone is the right call: the word is part of the offer, the address goes on a sign or a shirt more often than into a search box, and you want something four letters long that people repeat. Where .co.uk is the right call: almost everything else, because it is cheaper, it is what people guess, and it carries a UK association in Google that no generic extension gets.
Worth adding: on a .co.uk, a UK individual registrant can keep their name and address out of the public WHOIS at no cost under Nominet rules. On .zone that privacy is a paid add-on, which is one more small annual difference in the same direction.
| .zone | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Generic | UK country-code |
| In the root since | 2014 | 1985 |
| Google location cue | None | United Kingdom |
| Annual cost | About three times a .co.uk | Low |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals |
.zone domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .zone domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyTo most people it means a defined area, which is exactly what the extension is sold on: fan zones, drop zones, activity zones, enterprise zones. To anyone who works with DNS it means something else first, because a zone is the unit of delegation in the Domain Name System and a zone file holds the records. That double meaning is harmless in front of consumers and slightly awkward in front of engineers, so it is worth knowing which audience you are naming for.
No. Only the singular exists in the root zone, so nothing will ever resolve at yourname.zones. That removes one typo-squatting risk, since nobody can register the plural to trade off your name, but it also means a mistyped address produces a browser error rather than landing anywhere useful. Print the address carefully and consider registering the matching .co.uk as a safety net.
Anyone in the world. Binky Moon, LLC operates .zone as an open extension inside the Identity Digital portfolio, with no eligibility criteria, no local presence rule and no documents to supply. Registration is first come, first served. The registry does reserve the right to suspend or cancel a name under its acceptable use policy, including where a registrant lets their registration details go out of date.
For most ordinary businesses, yes, and we would rather say so. If your work has nothing to do with a space or an area, the word adds no meaning, so you are paying roughly three times a .co.uk each year for four letters that need explaining. The extension pays for itself when the space is the product: a climbing centre, a fan zone, a trampoline park, a gaming community. Outside that, buy the .co.uk.
Included with Your .zone 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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