.film Domain
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What is a .film domain?
The .film domain serves the motion picture industry from independent filmmakers to major production houses. It provides a professional, industry-specific address for showcasing reels and promoting productions.
Who should register .film?
Filmmakers, production companies, film festivals, and cinema enthusiasts.
Why choose .film?
- Open namespace aimed at the film industry
- Perfect for showreels
- Memorable for productions
- Appeals to the film community
Who runs .film, and since when
Registry data from the .film 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
- Motion Picture Domain Registry Pty Ltd
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2015
- Delegated 27 February 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone; the registry describes .film as an open namespace with no verification
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £73.49 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
- Transfer in
- £73.49
- Adds a year to whatever is left on the domain
Who runs .film, and what nobody checks
Most extensions leave you guessing about their intent. .film does not. The registry site at nic.film states the position in one line: .film is an open namespace marketed towards the film industry and related participants. Marketed towards, not restricted to. Nothing is verified, no credential is asked for, and there is no community registration policy in the ICANN agreement that could add one.
The operator is Motion Picture Domain Registry Pty Ltd, which is an Australian company based in Victoria, and the extension has only been in the root zone since 27 February 2015, making it one of the later arrivals in this set. Its abuse contact is in Melbourne. That Australian ownership has no practical effect on a UK registrant, but it is worth knowing that the people you would be dealing with in a dispute are twelve time zones away.
What .film buys is a clean, unambiguous word that nobody mistakes for anything else. What it costs is real: this is one of the more expensive extensions we sell, several times a .co.uk every year, and an independent filmmaker between projects still pays the renewal.
Is .film the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.film works well if
- You are a production company or a festival with a name that reads well before the dot, and the .com went to an American company years ago.
- You want an address that says what the site is without a word of explanation. Nobody has ever had to ask what .film means.
- The site is a permanent business address rather than a project microsite, so the annual cost is spread across real work.
Look elsewhere if
- You are an individual filmmaker funding this yourself. The annual price is several times a .co.uk, and it recurs whether or not you shot anything that year.
- Your audience is UK based and finds you through search. A .co.uk carries a UK signal that .film cannot, at a fraction of the cost.
- You want the credibility of a vetted extension. Nothing about .film is checked, so it signals interest rather than standing.
Making a consumer facing site about watching films rather than making them? .movie is the word your audience actually uses. See .movie pricing.
.film vs .movie: which should you register?
Two different registries, two different price bands, one idea. .film is run by an Australian company and sits in the upper middle of our price list. .movie is run by Binky Moon, part of Identity Digital, and is by a wide margin the most expensive extension in this whole group, at a level that only makes sense for a studio, a brand protection budget or a title with money behind it.
If the price were equal the choice would be about register: film is the word the industry uses about its own work, movie is the word an audience uses about what it watches. Since the price is not equal, most people choose .film and the decision is made for them. Look at .movie only when the name is the product and the annual bill is a rounding error.
.film domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .film domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The registry states on its own site that .film is an open namespace, and the ICANN registry agreement is a standard base agreement with no community registration policy attached. There is no membership to prove, no credential to upload and no verification step. That cuts both ways: the extension is easy to get, and for the same reason it proves nothing about whoever holds one.
Often not, and the reason is the renewal rather than the first year. A .film costs several times a .co.uk annually, forever, and independent film work is lumpy. A practical middle path is a .co.uk as the permanent address that holds your email and your archive, plus a .film for the current production if you want the flourish. If money is tight, the .co.uk alone does everything the .film does except look industry specific.
The extension itself does almost nothing for ranking. Google treats .film as a generic extension with no geographic meaning, so it gives no boost in UK results the way a .co.uk does, and no boost on the keyword either. What moves a showreel up the results is the page: fast loading video, a text transcript, credits marked up properly and links from festivals and collaborators. The domain is packaging.
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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