.cards Domain
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What is a .cards domain?
The .cards domain covers more ground than you'd expect. Greetings card companies, playing card manufacturers, trading card shops, and even business card printers all find it relevant. The word is broad enough to span industries but specific enough to signal a focused product line.
Who should register .cards?
Greetings card retailers, trading card shops, playing card brands, and business card printers.
Why choose .cards?
- Spans greetings, trading, and playing cards
- Memorable for repeat customers
- Works for physical and digital products
- Good name availability
Who runs .cards, and since when
Registry data from the .cards 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 restriction on the kind of cards you sell
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £33.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Which kind of cards a .cards domain suggests
Four unrelated trades own this word. Greetings cards, trading cards, playing cards and payment cards, and the extension cannot tell them apart. That is the problem to solve before you order: the label in front of the dot has to do all the disambiguating, because .cards on its own leaves a first-time visitor guessing which industry they have landed in.
Where it works cleanly is anywhere the product is a physical card and the brand name already narrows the field. A trading card shop, an independent greetings card illustrator, a printer doing business cards and loyalty schemes, a board game publisher selling decks. The word is short, plural and easy to say, and it puts the product into the address without a hyphen or a filler word anywhere.
There is one use to avoid outright. If your business touches payment cards in any way, this is the wrong extension. Phishing takes exactly that shape, an unfamiliar ending carrying a finance word, and a customer who has been warned about it by their bank will act on the warning rather than on your good intentions. Card processing belongs on the same domain as the rest of the business, where the visitor recognises the address they are already on.
The plural is fixed, which is worth checking against anything you print. We do not offer a singular version, so an address that drops the s goes nowhere at all. .cards domains joined the root zone on 6 February 2014 under Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital, with no rule about who may register or what sort of cards they sell. At £33.99 a year the extension costs about three and a half times a .co.uk, so treat it as a branding purchase rather than a saving.
Is .cards the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.cards works well if
- Your product is a physical card: greetings, trading, playing, tarot, loyalty or business cards printed and sold as the main line.
- Your brand name already says which industry you are in, so the extension adds the product without needing a hyphen.
- You are a designer or illustrator selling ranges direct, where a short address on the back of the card matters more than search.
- You want a clean address for a card-focused range that sits apart from a broader stationery or gift business.
Look elsewhere if
- You handle payments or card data. An unfamiliar ending with a finance word on it looks like the phishing pattern customers are warned about.
- Your customers find you by searching for what you sell locally. This carries no UK signal at all, where a .co.uk does.
- Everything you print has to carry the s. Drop it and the address does not resolve, because we offer no singular version.
Selling cards to UK customers who find you through search? The .co.uk does more for local visibility and costs far less. See .co.uk pricing.
.cards vs .shop: which should you register?
Both put a commercial word after the dot, and they answer different questions. A .cards address says what you sell. A .shop address says that you sell. For a business with one clear product line the first is more useful, and for one with a broad range the second stops the address contradicting the catalogue.
Pick .cards when cards are the whole business and you want the product named in the address, particularly where the brand name alone would leave a stranger unsure. Pick .shop when you sell cards alongside wrapping, gifts, prints and stationery, and an address that names only one of them would undersell the rest.
Pricing runs close enough between them that it should not decide anything. Neither is a country-code extension, so neither gives Google a reason to favour you in UK results, which is a point in favour of holding the .co.uk whichever of these you choose.
| .cards | .shop | |
|---|---|---|
| What it names | The product | The activity |
| Ambiguity | Four separate trades | None |
| Singular version | Not offered here | Not applicable |
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 2016 |
| UK search signal | None | None |
.cards domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .cards domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo, and this is the one clear warning on the page. An unfamiliar extension carrying a finance word is the exact shape of a card-skimming phishing link, and banks actively coach customers to distrust it. Even a legitimate business will lose conversions to that suspicion, and a support inbox full of people asking whether the email is real is its own cost. Keep anything involving card details on the domain your customers already recognise.
It is one of the better fits for the extension. Collectors know precisely what they are looking for and read a specialist address as a signal you deal in the category rather than stock it as a sideline. There is no restriction on who may register, so the extension is not a credential, but for a shop whose brand name alone would leave people guessing, putting the product in the address saves an explanation on every listing and every business card.
Not through us. Our catalogue carries the plural only, so an address ending in .card will not resolve for your visitors no matter how it is written. That makes proofreading important on anything printed, because a missing s on a shop sign or a card back is a dead address rather than a near miss. Register the .co.uk alongside it if you want a safety net that catches people who get the ending wrong.
Having your product in the extension is not a ranking factor, and no keyword after the dot is. What matters more for a UK shop is the country signal, and Google's documentation is explicit that a country-code domain tells search engines a site is meant for a particular country while a generic extension carries no such signal. A .cards is generic. If your customers search from the UK, that is a real argument for owning the .co.uk as the main address.
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