.guitars Domain
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Register your .guitars domain from just £112.00/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .guitars domain?
The .guitars domain is for guitar shops, luthiers, guitar teachers, and gear review sites. The guitar market covers everything from vintage collectors paying thousands for a '59 Les Paul to beginners picking up their first acoustic, and .guitars speaks to all of them. It's specific enough to attract real enthusiasts rather than casual browsers.
Who should register .guitars?
Guitar shops, luthiers, guitar teachers, gear review sites, and vintage guitar dealers.
Why choose .guitars?
- Targets passionate guitar enthusiasts
- Works for retail, lessons, and reviews
- Specific enough to attract buyers
- Memorable for a dedicated audience
Who runs .guitars, and since when
Registry data from the .guitars 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
- XYZ.COM LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 9 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone; no trade, retail or musician credentials are required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £112.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .guitars domain really costs a small shop
Start with the price, because it decides this one. A .guitars sits among the ten dearest extensions on our list, at roughly eleven times the annual cost of a .co.uk. Over a decade of trading that is the difference between about a hundred pounds and well over a thousand, on the address alone, before hosting or anything else. For a luthier or a small shop that is a real line in the accounts.
The reason it costs what it costs is historical rather than technical. Uniregistry took the extension into the root zone in January 2014 and priced its portfolio deliberately high, on the argument that a scarce, meaningful name is worth more than a cheap one. XYZ.COM LLC took over in March 2022 and the positioning stayed.
What you get for it is a name that finishes the sentence: bristol.guitars, vintage.guitars, yourname.guitars. That reads better than a hyphenated .co.uk, no argument. Whether it is a thousand pounds better over ten years depends entirely on whether the address is doing marketing work or just sitting in an email signature.
Is .guitars the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.guitars works well if
- The name only works with the word guitars in it, and every sensible .co.uk version is taken or hyphenated.
- You are a brand rather than a local shop, selling to players anywhere, so a UK-specific extension would not help you.
- The address is doing real marketing work: it goes on headstock decals, cases, video end cards and the side of a van at trade shows.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a local repair shop or teacher whose customers search for a town plus an instrument. A .co.uk carries the UK signal this does not.
- Margins are tight. This is one of the ten most expensive extensions we sell, renewed annually for as long as the business exists.
- You expect the keyword after the dot to bring in search traffic. It will not, and paying a premium for a keyword that earns no ranking is the common mistake here.
For a UK shop taking local trade, the .co.uk does more for search and costs a fraction as much. See .co.uk pricing.
.guitars vs .co.uk: which should you register?
These two are not close on any measure a UK guitar business should care about. The .co.uk is a fraction of the price, transfers between registrars almost instantly because it is an IPS tag change rather than a full transfer, comes with Nominet privacy for UK individuals at no extra cost, and tells Google the site belongs in UK results. None of that is true of a generic extension.
What the .co.uk cannot give you is a name that is already gone. If the only .co.uk left is three words and a hyphen, and yourtown.guitars is free, the shorter address may be worth the money, especially if it goes on physical products. Just make that decision knowing you are buying memorability rather than search visibility, and price it over ten years rather than one.
.guitars domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .guitars domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyThe registry charges more, and that is the whole answer. There is nothing different about the domain technically: the DNS records, the DNSSEC support and the mail routing are identical to any other extension, and it resolves at exactly the same speed. Uniregistry launched .guitars in 2014 with premium pricing across its portfolio and XYZ kept that pricing when it took the extension over in 2022. You are paying for the word, not for the plumbing, and you pay for it again every year.
It stops resolving, and after the redemption period the name goes back on the market for anyone. On an expensive extension that matters more than usual, because the annual bill is the sort of thing that gets queried in a lean year and cancelled by someone who does not realise the shop email runs on it too. Set it to auto-renew, keep the billing contact current, and if the address is printed on stock or instruments, treat the renewal as a fixed cost rather than a discretionary one.
Rarely, and the reason is who your customers are. Teaching is local: people search for lessons in their town, book by phone or message, and find you through Google Maps and word of mouth. A .co.uk supports that better and leaves you the best part of a hundred pounds a year to spend on something that actually brings enquiries. The extension makes more sense for a brand selling nationally or internationally, where the address is part of the packaging rather than a line on a business card.
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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