.clinic Domain
Where Patients Find Trusted Care
Register your .clinic domain from just £52.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .clinic domain?
The .clinic domain provides a professional, reassuring web address for healthcare providers of all kinds. From GP surgeries and dental clinics to physiotherapy practices and specialist treatment centres, .clinic signals a legitimate place of care.
Who should register .clinic?
Medical clinics, dental practices, physiotherapy centres, and specialist treatment providers.
Why choose .clinic?
- Reassures patients before they visit
- Appropriate for all healthcare specialisms
- Clean and professional web address
- Signals a legitimate place of care
Who runs .clinic, and since when
Registry data from the .clinic 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 11 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no clinical registration or licence check
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £52.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
How .clinic reads in UK healthcare naming
Start with the word rather than the domain. In Britain a general practice is a surgery, a dentist runs a practice, and clinic tends to mean private, specialist or appointment based: a physiotherapy clinic, a fertility clinic, a dermatology clinic, a veterinary clinic. Americans use it more loosely for healthcare in general. So .clinic fits a private or specialist provider naturally and an NHS general practice awkwardly, whatever the registry had in mind.
There is nothing to qualify for. Binky Moon runs .clinic on ICANN's standard base agreement, unsponsored, with no community specification and no eligibility rules, so nobody verifies that a registrant is a clinician or that the address belongs to a clinic. The acceptable use policy is the only backstop: Identity Digital treats holding yourself out as having a status, credential or authorisation associated with the extension when it does not exist as abusive use, and can suspend or cancel a name for it.
That leaves the extension to earn its keep on naming. It does when the practice name is a word or a surname and .clinic completes it, and when patients arrive by referral or by typing a name they already know rather than searching for a treatment near them. It does less well for a practice competing on local search, because the .co.uk carries a UK signal that a word extension does not, and .clinic costs several times as much every year. Whichever you pick, make sure the address on your Google Business Profile, your letterhead and your booking system is the same one. A patient checking they are on the right site is half the trust you are paying for.
Is .clinic the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.clinic works well if
- You are a private or specialist provider whose name works with the word: a physiotherapy, fertility, dermatology or veterinary clinic.
- Your practice is known by a single word or a surname, and the .co.uk version went to somebody else a decade ago.
- Most of your patients arrive by referral or recommendation, so the address is typed or said rather than found through a local search.
- You run several sites under one group and want a readable address for each clinic instead of a stack of subfolders.
Look elsewhere if
- You are an NHS general practice. Patients call it a surgery, they search for it as a surgery, and a .clinic address reads as somewhere else entirely.
- Local search brings you most of your patients. A .co.uk gives Google a UK signal that .clinic does not, at a small fraction of the yearly cost.
- You expect the ending to say you are qualified. Nobody verifies a .clinic registrant, so it carries exactly as much clinical weight as a .com.
A local practice living on people searching nearby? The .co.uk does more for that and leaves budget for the site itself. See .co.uk pricing.
.clinic vs .surgery: which should you register?
These two split along British and American usage, and getting it wrong costs you recognition rather than money. In the UK a surgery is where you see a GP, so .surgery reads naturally for a general practice here and reads as an operating theatre to an American. A .clinic reads as private or specialist in Britain and as ordinary healthcare across the Atlantic.
Neither carries an eligibility test, so the choice is only about what your patients call the place. Say the practice name out loud with each ending and keep the one you would not have to explain at reception.
If you are a dental practice, neither is the obvious answer, because .dental matches the word patients already use. And if you serve one town, the .co.uk still does more for you in local results than any of the three.
| .clinic | .surgery | |
|---|---|---|
| UK reading | Private or specialist care | A GP practice |
| American reading | Healthcare in general | An operation |
| Eligibility check | None | None |
| Best fit | Physiotherapy, fertility, dermatology, veterinary | General practice |
.clinic domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .clinic domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The .clinic registry agreement is ICANN's standard base agreement with no community specification and no eligibility rules, so there is no professional register to be on and no documents to supply. The registry acceptable use policy still applies, and it treats claiming a status or credential associated with the extension when you do not have one as abusive use, which can cost you the domain. Easy to buy, not a licence to display.
Usually not, because of the word rather than the technology. British patients call it a surgery or a practice, they search for it that way, and an address ending in .clinic reads as a private specialist service to a lot of people. If the practice already trades as a clinic, the ending fits. If it does not, you are asking patients to learn a new word for something they already know how to find.
Only when the name is the problem the money solves. A .clinic costs several times a .co.uk every year, for as long as the practice exists, and it brings no search advantage in the UK. What it buys is a clean, readable address when your .co.uk options are all hyphenated or padded with a town name. That is a real benefit for a practice known by name, and no benefit at all for one people find by searching.
The extension itself does not move you up local results. Patients searching for a treatment near them are served by a Google Business Profile with an accurate address, reviews, opening hours and pages describing what you treat. A .co.uk adds a UK signal that a generic word extension lacks. Where .clinic helps is after somebody knows your name: a short address that is easy to remember and quick to type into a phone.
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