.fishing Domain
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What is a .fishing domain?
The .fishing domain is made for the angling community, from tackle shops and charter boat operators to fishing lodges and tournament organisers. It says what the business does before anyone clicks, which is worth more on a printed card or the side of a van than in a search result.
Who should register .fishing?
Tackle shops, charter boat operators, fishing lodges, tournament organisers, and angling content creators.
Why choose .fishing?
- Speaks directly to anglers
- Covers tackle, charters, and lodges
- Memorable for repeat customers
- Taps into a passionate hobby market
Who runs .fishing, and since when
Registry data from the .fishing 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
- Registry Services, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 28 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide on a first-come, first-served basis
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £30.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Angling businesses, .fishing and the phishing problem
Say a .fishing address out loud and then listen to it. Tackle shops, charter skippers and fishery owners buy this extension because it labels the business in one word, and then find that over the phone it sits one letter away from a word every bank and IT department has trained people to fear. That is not a reason to rule it out. It is a reason to test it before it goes on the side of a van.
The registry is Registry Services LLC, trading as GoDaddy Registry, and its own answer on eligibility is that anyone can register a .fishing globally on a first-come, first-served basis. No club membership, no rod licence, no country requirement. It reached the root zone in February 2014.
Where it earns its keep is the long tail of names that went on .co.uk years ago. A lake, a river beat, a charter boat, a fly-tying brand: most can still get their own name here, and the extension does the explaining so the name does not have to. What it will not do is lift you in UK search results, because a generic extension carries no geographic weight at all.
Is .fishing the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.fishing works well if
- You run a fishery, a charter boat or a stretch of river and the name you actually want disappeared from .co.uk a long time ago.
- Your brand name alone does not say what you sell, so putting the category after the dot saves a word in every address you print.
- Most of your bookings come from returning customers typing the name from memory, where memorability beats a familiar extension.
Look elsewhere if
- It sounds like phishing when spoken. Anyone reading the address to a customer will end up spelling it out, every single time.
- Your traffic comes from UK anglers searching Google. A .co.uk carries a UK signal that this does not, for about a third of the annual price.
- You also sell shooting, camping or general outdoor kit. A category extension boxes the shop in, and moving away from it later costs you the address.
Most of your customers within an hour's drive? A .co.uk does more for local search and costs a third as much. See .co.uk pricing.
.fishing vs .fish: which should you register?
We sell both and .fish is the dearer of the two. What separates them is where the word points. .fish is the thing; .fishing is the activity. A fishmonger, an aquatics shop or a seafood wholesaler wants the noun. A tackle shop, a charter skipper or a fishery wants the verb, because their customers are the people doing it.
So if you sell to people who catch fish, .fishing is the correct half of that split and it costs less. If you sell fish to people who eat them, .fish reads better, ends up shorter, and sidesteps the phishing resemblance completely.
.fishing domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .fishing domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyAnyone in the world, on a first-come, first-served basis, which is the registry's own published answer. There is no angling club membership to hold, no fishery licence to produce and no residency test. That also means the extension proves nothing on its own about the business behind it, so a charter operator or fishery still needs the site, the reviews and the contact details to do the reassuring.
Not because of the spelling. Mail filters score a sending domain on its authentication, its sending history and the content of the message, not on how the extension reads. What does matter is that a brand new domain has no reputation at all, so set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC records before you send anything, warm the address up gradually, and avoid sending your first campaign from a domain registered the same week.
It is neutral. Google treats it as a generic extension, so it carries no country signal and no ranking advantage from containing a keyword. The practical consequence for a British business is that it gives up the UK signal a .co.uk provides, which is a real loss if your customers search from Britain. Keyword-matching in the extension does not substitute for it. Judge .fishing on memorability, not on search.
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