.marketing Domain
Practice What You Preach Online
Register your .marketing domain from just £34.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .marketing domain?
The .marketing domain is the natural choice for agencies and professionals who specialise in promotion and brand growth. Using a .marketing domain demonstrates that you understand modern branding, starting with your own web address.
Who should register .marketing?
Marketing agencies, digital marketers, SEO specialists, and brand consultants.
Why choose .marketing?
- Demonstrates marketing savvy
- Says what the agency does before the click
- Perfect for agency branding
- Memorable for prospective clients
Who runs .marketing, and since when
Registry data from the .marketing 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 9 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with no requirement to work in marketing or hold any accreditation
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £34.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why agencies pick .marketing, and who should not
An agency's own domain is a work sample, which is the honest reason this extension exists and the honest reason it divides the industry. Half your prospects read seventeen.marketing as a firm confident enough to skip the queue for the .com. The other half read it as a firm that could not get one. Both readings are available and you do not get to choose which one lands.
What tips the balance is the word in front of the dot. A short, distinctive name carries the extension and the whole address looks chosen. A descriptive phrase does not: affordable-digital-marketing-leeds.marketing repeats the word, reads like a landing page rather than a company, and undoes the point it was meant to make.
There is one practical thing to know before you go shopping. The registry agreement for .marketing commits Identity Digital to running a Domains Protected Marks List, which lets trade mark holders reserve exact match terms and terms containing their marks across every extension the registry operates. A name can come back unavailable without anyone having built a site on it, and a block of that kind is why.
The extension has been live since 2014, delegated first to Fern Pass LLC and now run by Binky Moon. No professional body vets holders, no qualification is checked and a plumber can register one, so treat it as branding. Branding is what an agency should be buying here anyway.
Is .marketing the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.marketing works well if
- Your agency name is one short distinctive word, so the address reads as a deliberate choice rather than as a fallback from a taken .com.
- Most of your work arrives by referral, from speaking or from social, where the address is a badge rather than a search result.
- You are launching a new agency brand and want the naming to say what you do without adding "digital" or "media" to the name itself.
- You want a campaign address that is separate from your main site and reads clearly on a poster or a conference badge.
Look elsewhere if
- You win work from local search. Google gives a .co.uk a British signal and gives a .marketing nothing, on exactly the queries that convert.
- Your name is already descriptive. Repeating "marketing" either side of the dot makes the address read as spam rather than as a brand.
- Non-technical clients still equate an unfamiliar extension with a fly-by-night supplier, and an agency asking for retainer fees can do without that doubt.
Pitching mainly to UK businesses that find you on Google? Put the site on a .co.uk and redirect this to it. See .co.uk pricing.
.marketing vs .co.uk: which should you register?
For a British agency selling to British clients this is closer than the extension's fans admit. A .co.uk tells Google the site is aimed at Britain, which is a real advantage on a search like "marketing agency Leeds". A .marketing tells Google nothing geographic, because generic extensions carry no country signal.
So the trade is search advantage against brand signal. If your pipeline comes from local search, the .co.uk is doing paid work for you every day of the year. If it comes from referrals, from a stage or from LinkedIn, the address is a badge, and .marketing is the better badge.
The cheap answer is to hold both, point the .marketing at the .co.uk, and hand out whichever suits the audience in front of you. Two registrations still cost less than one lost retainer.
| .marketing | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Country signal in Google | None, treated as generic | United Kingdom |
| Says what you do | Yes, in the extension | No |
| Annual cost here | Around three times a .co.uk | Low |
| Familiar to UK clients | Less familiar | Universally recognised |
| Transfer to 365i | Hours to a few days | Near instant IPS tag change |
.marketing domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .marketing domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyIt is neutral rather than bad. Google treats generic extensions as carrying no country signal and no ranking advantage or penalty, so a .marketing competes on the same terms as a .com. The real cost is what you give up: a .co.uk carries a British signal that helps on local searches, and for an agency chasing "marketing agency" plus a town name, that signal is worth more than the branding.
No. There is no eligibility rule, no accreditation and no professional body behind the extension, so anybody can register one. That matters when you are evaluating a supplier as much as when you are choosing your own address: the extension tells a prospect nothing about competence, and your case studies, named clients and results have to do that work instead.
Some will, and it depends heavily on the name in front of it. A short branded name reads as deliberate. A keyword-stuffed one reads like a cold email, because that is where people have seen the pattern before. If you send a lot of outbound email, be aware that unfamiliar extensions attract more suspicion from recipients and from filters than a well-warmed .co.uk does.
Make it the main site only if search is not where your work comes from. Agencies that live on inbound local search do better with the .co.uk indexed and the .marketing redirecting to it, because moving an established site between domains costs you months of settling even when the redirects are correct. Agencies that live on referrals can lead with the .marketing from day one.
Included with Your .marketing 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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