Buy your .HOLDINGS domain

No. The registry commits in its agreement to imposing no identity-based eligibility limit.

Rules on company form and trading names come from the law where you operate and are independent of domain names. The address therefore suggests a structure rather than proving one. Publishing the registered name, the company number and a list of subsidiaries on the page closes that gap.

Unless a brand needs independence, sub-domains under one roof are the more sustainable arrangement.

One certificate, one DNS zone, one place to administer; when a subsidiary is renamed only the sub-domain changes. Where a brand has its own customer base, though, a separate address is right. In that case link the two sides to each other and keep the corporate information in one place.

Of 10,983 registrations, 9,051 appear in the zone file — about 82%.

A high rate, and a sign of corporate rather than speculative use: names here are not bought and parked. Single-word roots will mostly look taken, while combinations adding a family name or a sector remain findable. Run the shortlist in one pass through the bulk domain name search.

The legal structure, the subsidiaries, audit reports and a financial calendar that is actually maintained.

Gathering these on one page builds confidence far faster than scattered announcements. Give a corporate contact rather than a personal one, and say who answers investor questions. Date every document you publish: a stale report raises more questions than no report at all.

Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra documents.

In group structures the real exposure is who holds the registration: the name often still stands with a subsidiary or a former adviser, and authorisation becomes the obstacle mid-transfer. Check the current holder from the whois search page and correct the ownership first if it needs it.