.camera Domain
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Register your .camera domain from just £52.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .camera domain?
The .camera domain serves camera shops, rental houses, photography equipment reviewers, and camera repair specialists. It's broader than .photography (which focuses on the photographer) because it puts the equipment front and centre. If your business sells, rents, or services cameras, .camera tells customers they're in the right place.
Who should register .camera?
Camera shops, equipment rental houses, camera repair specialists, and photography gear review sites.
Why choose .camera?
- Focuses on equipment, not just photography
- Clear and descriptive
- Works for retail, rental, and repair
- Distinguishes from photographer portfolio sites
Who runs .camera, and since when
Registry data from the .camera 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, and the registry is contractually barred from adding eligibility rules
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £52.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why nobody can be stopped from registering .camera
Something specific happened when .camera was contracted in August 2013, and it decides how this extension behaves. Specification 11 of the registry agreement commits the operator to open registration in plain terms: second level names will be available to lawful registrants, the string is treated as a generic dictionary word, and the registry will not limit eligibility based on identity or reserve the extension for whoever uses the word most commonly. It also says the registry will not shut out lawful users associated with a minority meaning of the word.
Read that last clause again, because it is the reason a camera club, a surveillance installer, a film hire firm and a phone accessory shop can all hold .camera names and none of them can be pushed out. The extension is a shared word, not a trade body, and the contract is what keeps it that way.
The practical consequence for a buyer is that .camera carries no credential. It tells a visitor what you are about, and it tells them nothing about whether you are any good, because nobody checked. That is fine as long as your copy does the work the extension cannot.
Is .camera the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.camera works well if
- You sell, hire or repair equipment and the word camera is the first thing a customer would type. The extension puts your keyword after the dot rather than padding the name.
- The .co.uk you wanted is taken by a bigger retailer, and yourbrand.camera is shorter and cleaner than a hyphenated alternative.
- You want an address that survives a change of stock. Camera covers stills, cine, broadcast and security without you renaming anything.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a photographer selling your own work. The subject of a photographer site is the person, not the kit, and this extension points at the kit.
- Price matters. A .camera costs around five times a .co.uk every year, and a shop with several product line domains feels that quickly.
- Most of your customers are local and find you through Google Business Profile and a map pack listing. A UK extension helps there in a way this one cannot.
Building a portfolio site rather than a shop? A .photography points at the work rather than the equipment and costs less. See .photography pricing.
.camera vs .photography: which should you register?
The split is subject matter, not quality. A .photography address is about the person behind the lens and reads naturally with a personal or studio name. A .camera address is about the object, which is why it sits better on a shop, a hire house or a repair bench than on a portfolio.
Cost pushes the same way. The .photography is the cheaper of the two by a clear margin, which matters because a working photographer usually only needs one domain, while a retailer might register several. If you do both, portfolio and shop, the tidiest answer is a .photography for the folio and a .camera for the trade side, rather than trying to make one address do two jobs.
.camera domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .camera domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, and the registry is not allowed to require it. The public interest commitments in the .camera registry agreement with ICANN commit the operator to open registration and forbid it from limiting eligibility by identity or from reserving the extension for the most common meaning of the word. A camera club, a CCTV installer or a film production company can all hold one on exactly the same terms as a retailer.
For a UK shop, the .co.uk is the better primary address. Google treats .co.uk as a UK geographic signal and treats .camera as generic with no country meaning, so on searches made in Britain the .co.uk starts ahead. Where .camera earns its place is as a memorable second address you can print, say aloud or point at a specific product line, redirecting to the .co.uk underneath.
The registry sets a higher wholesale price for it, and that is the whole explanation. There is nothing technically different about a .camera name: the same DNS records, the same DNSSEC support, the same everything. You are paying the registry more per year for a word after the dot. Check the renewal price on this page against a .co.uk before you commit, because the difference recurs every year for as long as you keep the name.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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