.dental Domain
A Smile-Worthy Web Address
Register your .dental domain from just £60.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .dental domain?
The .dental extension provides dentists, orthodontists, and dental hygienists with a domain that patients instantly associate with oral healthcare. A .dental domain reinforces your clinical credentials before a single appointment is booked.
Who should register .dental?
Dental practices, orthodontists, dental hygienists, and cosmetic dentistry providers.
Why choose .dental?
- Immediately associated with oral healthcare
- Reinforces clinical professionalism
- Memorable for patient referrals
- Ideal for practice websites and booking
Who runs .dental, and since when
Registry data from the .dental 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 17 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no GDC registration or licence check
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £60.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
How .dental reads to a patient booking online
Look at how British dental practices are addressed online and the same compromise appears everywhere: a surname, the word dental, then care or practice or surgery, then .co.uk, usually with the town bolted on because the plain version went in 2003. .dental exists to shorten that. Smith Dental in Kettering can be smith.dental rather than smithdentalpracticekettering.co.uk, and the short one is the one a patient can repeat to a friend without writing it down.
Nothing is checked. Binky Moon runs .dental on ICANN's standard base agreement, unsponsored, with no eligibility rules, so being on the General Dental Council register has no bearing on whether you can register the name. What the registry does police is the claim: Identity Digital's acceptable use policy lists holding yourself out as having a status, credential or authorisation associated with a TLD when it does not exist as abusive use, and abusive use can be suspended or cancelled. The extension is a name, not a qualification.
The practical questions are the ones patients create. Read the address aloud and work out whether the person on the other end will type .com from habit, then decide whether to hold that as well. Check that your practice management software, your online booking provider and your email signatures all use the same address, because a patient who lands on a parked page assumes you have closed. And weigh the yearly cost against what it replaces. A .dental is one of the more expensive extensions we sell, and a practice keeps a domain for as long as it keeps its sign.
Is .dental the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.dental works well if
- Your practice is known by a surname or a single word, and the matching .co.uk is long gone or needs a town bolted onto it.
- You are naming a new practice and want an address short enough to say once at the end of a phone call.
- You run several practices under one brand and want a readable address for each rather than a folder structure nobody remembers.
- You are a dental group, laboratory or supplier where dental is the category and your brand is the word in front of it.
Look elsewhere if
- You depend on local search. A patient looks for a dentist near them, and .co.uk gives Google a UK signal that .dental does not.
- Your patients are mostly older and ring the practice. An unfamiliar ending gets typed as .com and lands nowhere, or somewhere worse.
- You want the extension to say you are registered. It says nothing of the sort. The GDC register does that, and patients can check it in seconds.
One practice serving one town? The .co.uk is still the better main address, and a .dental makes a good short redirect to it. See .co.uk pricing.
.dental vs .com: which should you register?
A .com is the address people type when they are not sure. That is its whole advantage and it is a real one: a patient half remembering your name will guess .com before anything else. If the .com of your practice name is free and affordable, it is the safe choice.
A .dental wins on saying what it is. Nobody needs telling what smith.dental is for, it fits on a sign, and it survives being read out across a busy reception. The costs are the annual bill, which runs several times a .com, and the typing risk from patients on autopilot.
For a UK practice the honest answer is usually neither on its own. Register the .co.uk for local search, add the .dental if the name deserves it, and point them all at one site so nobody lands on a parked page wondering whether you have closed down.
| .dental | .com | |
|---|---|---|
| Who may register | Anyone, nothing verified | Anyone worldwide |
| Reads as | Obviously a dental practice | Anything at all |
| Typed by mistake | Patients may reach for .com | The default guess |
| Annual cost | Several times a .com | Low |
| UK local search signal | None | None |
.dental domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .dental domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The .dental registry agreement is ICANN's standard base agreement, unsponsored, with no eligibility rules, so General Dental Council registration has nothing to do with whether the name can be bought. The registry acceptable use policy does prohibit holding yourself out as having a status or credential associated with the extension when you do not have one, and abusive use can be suspended or cancelled. Anyone can buy it; nobody may misrepresent what it means.
For attracting new patients nearby, the .co.uk is stronger. Search engines read it as a UK site, and most dental enquiries begin with somebody searching for a dentist in their town. A .dental is better at being remembered and repeated, which matters for referrals and for anything printed. Practices that can afford both usually register both and point them at one site, with the .co.uk as the address they advertise.
Some will, and it is worth planning for. People type the ending they have typed for twenty years, particularly if they heard the address rather than read it. If the .com of your name is available at a sensible price, holding it and redirecting removes the problem. If it is taken by somebody else, say the full address slowly on the phone and put it in print exactly as it should be typed, ending included.
Multiply the price on this page by ten and treat that as the real figure, because a practice keeps its address for as long as it keeps its sign. A .dental sits at the higher end of what we sell, several times a .co.uk each year, and there is no loyalty discount waiting at renewal. That is not a reason to avoid it. It is a reason to decide deliberately rather than treating the first year as the price.
Included with Your .dental Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
Set up professional email addresses and forward to any inbox.
Auto-Renewal
Never lose your domain with automatic renewal protection.
Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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