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New generic extensionSince 2014

.finance domain registration

An extension that says your work is money: for a financial services firm, an adviser or a financing platform, naming its field before the visitor reads a line of the site.

Score card

.finance in six cells

Our score out of five, as we see it when we help a customer choose.

Trust
3 out of 5
Easy to remember
3 out of 5
Global reach
2 out of 5
Price stability
3 out of 5
Short names available
4 out of 5
Local meaning
1 out of 5

Overview

What is .finance

The word finance means money, its management and the funding of business, and the extension’s name places your site in that field at first sight. .finance entered the internet’s root in 2014 as a new generic extension; it is run by Binky Moon, LLC and supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing.

It suits financial services firms, financial advisers and those who provide financing or accounting to companies. People read it as a statement of financial work, and money is a field where visitors need reassurance, so it suits those who actually do this work, and misleads if anyone else holds it.

We have a first-year offer, and renewal costs more. Many people know it less well than .com, and some are wary of financial links whose extension they don’t know, so register your company’s name in .com too, so your customers in Lebanon find you by what they’re used to typing.

Type
New generic extension (new gTLD)
In the root since
April 24, 2014
Name’s origin
finance, money and its management
Responsible body
Binky Moon, LLC
Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
DNSSEC
Supported
Names in Arabic
Supported (IDN)

Who it suits

For your field: is .finance the best fit?

Every field has an extension that says something about it. Here is what .finance says in each, and which extension completes it.

  • A financial services firm

    Excellent · The first choice

    It names your field with a word everyone knows, and .com completes it for those who type your name without an extension.

    Register it with.finance.com

  • An independent financial adviser

    Good · A good fit

    An address in your name presents your work, and .expert introduces you as someone with expertise.

    Register it with.finance.expert

  • Project financing in Lebanon

    Good · A good fit with .com

    A project owner types .com out of habit, and .finance says what you offer; your city’s name before it says you’re close by.

    Register it with.com.finance

  • A finance app or wallet

    Good · A good fit

    It states the purpose in the address, and .app says it’s an app to download.

    Register it with.finance.app

  • A personal finance blog

    Good · A careful fit

    It names your topic clearly, but visitors may take it for a finance company; so say on its first page that it’s a blog.

    Register it with.finance.blog

  • An online store

    Consider another · Consider .store

    Money in a store’s name suggests financial work you don’t offer; a trade extension is clearer to your buyer.

    Register it with.store.com

What it does for you

What you gain when you register it

  • Your field in the address

    Visitors know from the link they’re facing financial work, before they read the company’s name.

  • Email that presents your work

    info@tamweel-beirut.finance tells whoever receives it that the message comes from a body working in finance.

  • Short names still free

    Common financial words were taken in .com long ago, and you may find many of them free here.

  • Your name protected

    Register your company’s name in .finance before someone else uses it for a page impersonating you.

And where its value shows

In financing contracts

An address that shows the field beside the signature.

In client emails

Email whose source is known before it’s opened.

In reports

A link fit for the company’s figures and reports.

In search results

Shows its field before the click.

Pros and cons

What you should know before you register

Frankly, as we’d tell a customer who asks us before registering.

Pros

  • 01A word people know everywhere
  • 02Suits financial services and advisory work
  • 03A first-year offer with us
  • 04Short names are easier to find than in .com
  • 05Supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing

Cons

  • 01Renewal costs more than the first year
  • 02Less familiar than .com, and visitors are warier where money is involved
  • 03Read as a claim to financial work, so it misleads if that isn’t yours
  • 04Says nothing about your country

Rules

Registration terms for .finance

What the registry requires and what we add, in one place.

Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
Documents
None required, but you agree to follow the laws that govern the field
Name length
Up to 63 characters
Characters
a–z, digits and hyphens, never first or last
Names in Arabic
Supported (IDN)
Registration term
1 to 10 years
DNSSEC
Supported
Privacy protection
Optional, for a separate fee
Transfer
60 days after registration or the last transfer, with an EPP code; adds a year to its term

Life cycle

From registration until the name is free again

What happens to your name if it isn’t renewed, and when you can still get it back.

  1. 01Registration1 to 10 yearsThe name is yours from the moment you pay, for the term you chose.
  2. 02Before expiry31 days, then 8 days beforeWe remind you twice by email; auto-renewal saves you the reminder.
  3. 03After expiryDays 1–8The website and email stop; renew within these days at the regular renewal price.
  4. 04AuctionFrom day 10The name may go to auction; if it sells, it passes to its buyer.Domain recovery policy
  5. 05Redemption30 daysIf the registry offers it after deletion: a $200 redemption fee plus a year’s renewal.
  6. 06Final deletion5 daysThen the name is free again for anyone to register.

Tips

Before you register

  1. 1Guard your name against impersonationRegister your company’s name in other extensions too; a page impersonating a financial firm harms its clients.
  2. 2Sign your name with DNSSECSigning makes forged DNS answers for your address harder, and money clients deserve that protection most.
  3. 3A short name, read as it’s writtenIf it needs spelling out on the phone, it’s too long or too complicated.
  4. 4No digits or hyphens that need explainingEvery hyphen or digit has to be said, and what has to be said gets forgotten.
  5. 5Renew automatically, or register for yearsUp to 10 years at once, so you never miss a date.
  6. 6Make sure the name isn’t someone else’s trademarkA registered trademark’s owner can recover the name from whoever registered it first.

Nearby extensions

If your name is taken in .finance

FAQ5 questions

Frequently asked questions about .finance

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  • $35 for the first year with an offer, then $66 for each renewal. Look at the renewal price before you register: it’s what you’ll pay every year after the first.

  • Anyone, person or organization, from any country, with no documents. But it’s one of the extensions ICANN binds with special safeguards: at registration you agree to follow the laws that govern its field, data and consumer protection among them.

  • Yes, once 60 days have passed since it was registered or last transferred. Ask your current provider for the transfer (EPP) code and open a transfer request with us; a full year is added to the domain’s term.

  • We remind you by email 31 days and 8 days before expiry, and 3 days after it. After expiry the website and email stop, and you can renew in the first eight days at the regular renewal price; from day 10 it may go to auction. If it is deleted and the registry allows redemption within 30 days, the redemption fee is $200 plus a year’s renewal.

  • Yes. The body responsible for .finance has an Arabic table in IANA’s repository of internationalized names (IDN), so the name is written in Arabic and stored in a form that begins with xn--.

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