.glass Domain
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Register your .glass domain from just £65.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .glass domain?
The .glass domain serves a specific trade: glaziers, glass manufacturers, stained glass artists, and glass recycling firms. It's a niche extension, and that's the point. Customers searching for glass services get an immediate signal that your business is a specialist, not a generalist.
Who should register .glass?
Glaziers, glass manufacturers, stained glass artists, and glass recycling firms.
Why choose .glass?
- Signals specialist trade expertise
- Niche extension with low competition
- Works for craft and industrial glass
- Memorable for local tradespeople
Who runs .glass, and since when
Registry data from the .glass 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
- 2013
- Delegated 19 December 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no glazing certification or trade body membership
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £65.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .glass domain costs a glazing firm
£65.99 a year. Sit with that figure before anything else, because it is the highest of any extension in this group and close to seven times what a .co.uk costs. Across ten years of trading the gap is real money for a two-van glazier, and it buys nothing technical at all: the DNS records, the DNSSEC support and the mail routing are identical whichever address the site sits on.
What the money buys is a word the trade already says a hundred times a day. Read Ashworth dot glass down the phone from a scaffold and the person writing it down gets it right first time, which is more than most extensions manage. Short, concrete, nothing to spell out, no hyphen.
Three separate trades share it. Glazing and window firms, architectural and art glass studios doing stained, fused and cast work, and glass manufacturing and recycling operations. None has any claim over the others, because there is no certification to produce and no membership to prove. Anyone may register a .glass domain, so it identifies a subject rather than a qualification, and a customer checking whether you are competent will be looking at your accreditations instead.
Set against the price is where glazing work actually comes from. Emergency boarding up and replacement units are searched locally, from a phone, often at an awkward hour, and Google treats a generic extension as carrying no country target while a .co.uk states which country the site serves. Binky Moon, LLC has run the extension through Identity Digital since it was delegated on 19 December 2013. For a local trade business we would put the .co.uk first every time and treat the .glass as a memorable extra.
Is .glass the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.glass works well if
- Glass is the whole business rather than one service line, so the address describes you accurately in one short word.
- You are an architectural or art glass studio winning commissions on portfolio, where the address reads as a discipline.
- You read your address aloud constantly, on site and over the phone, and want an ending nobody has to spell back.
- The .co.uk of your firm name has gone, and yourname.glass is shorter than anything you would build around it.
Look elsewhere if
- At around £66 a year it is the dearest extension in this group, nearly seven times a .co.uk, for no technical benefit.
- Emergency call-out work is won on local phone searches, where a generic extension gives Google no country signal at all.
- You also fit doors, conservatories or roofline. An address naming one material makes the rest of the work invisible.
Most of your work arriving from local searches and call-outs? Own the .co.uk and let the .glass point at it. See .co.uk pricing.
.glass vs .co.uk: which should you register?
The gap in price here is wider than on any other extension in this group, so it deserves stating plainly. A .glass costs roughly seven times a .co.uk every year, and transferring a .co.uk between registrars is free while transferring a .glass is not. Over the life of a small glazing firm that difference adds up to real money that could have gone on a van livery or a month of advertising.
Where .glass earns its keep: saying it. On a scaffold, over a bad phone line, to somebody writing on the back of a job sheet, ashworth.glass is easier to get right than ashworthglazingservices.co.uk. That is a practical benefit in a trade where the address is spoken far more often than it is typed.
Where .co.uk wins: everything else. It carries a United Kingdom signal in Google, which is what decides local call-out work, it costs a fraction as much, it transfers free and near instantly on an IPS tag change, and it comes with free WHOIS privacy under Nominet's consent rules for a UK individual. Own that one, and add the .glass as the name you say out loud.
| .glass | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cost here | Around £66 | Around £10 |
| Transfer | Chargeable | Free and near instant |
| UK search signal | None | United Kingdom |
| Said aloud | One short word | Needs the firm name spelled |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free under Nominet rules |
.glass domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .glass domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyThe registry prices it that way, and at around £66 a year it is the dearest extension in this part of our catalogue. It buys no technical advantage whatever: the DNS, the DNSSEC support and the mail routing are the same as on a domain costing a tenth as much. You are paying for a short, on-topic word and nothing else, so judge it the way you would judge signwriting. If the shorter name really does read better, it may be worth it. If not, the money does more good elsewhere.
Not through search. Google reads it as a generic extension with no country attached, while a .co.uk tells search engines the site is meant for the United Kingdom, and emergency call-outs are won on exactly those local phone searches. What decides that work is a complete Google Business Profile, consistent contact details, reviews and a page that names the areas you cover. The extension is a branding choice sitting on top of all that, not a substitute for it.
Yes, and it is one of the better uses for it. There is no certification, no trade body check and no eligibility policy at all on this extension, so a studio doing stained, fused or cast work can register one exactly as easily as a double glazing firm. For a maker selling commissions on portfolio rather than on local search, the price argument that weighs against it for a glazier matters much less, because the address is doing brand work rather than search work.
It renews at the rate in force when the renewal falls due, so the figure shown on this page is the one to plan against rather than a first-year offer. There is no cheap introductory price here that jumps later. The registry does hold some names back as premium under its reserved names policy, and a name in that category can carry a different price that recurs annually, so check the exact figure at the point of ordering if the name you want is short or obvious.
Included with Your .glass 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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