.media Domain
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What is a .media domain?
The .media domain encompasses the full breadth of modern media, from traditional broadcasting to digital content creation. It provides a professional, authoritative address for organisations that produce or manage media content.
Who should register .media?
Media companies, content agencies, broadcasters, and digital content creators.
Why choose .media?
- Broad industry applicability
- Professional media branding
- Suits traditional and digital media
- Authoritative and modern
Who runs .media, and since when
Registry data from the .media 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 3 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone; you do not have to work in media to register one
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £37.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
How .media domains finish a company name
There is a specific reason this extension sells, and it has nothing to do with the industry. Thousands of companies are already called something Media. Hyde Park Media. Redwing Media. Most are sitting on a padded .co.uk because the clean one went long ago, and the word "media" is doing nothing in that address except making it longer. Move the word past the dot and the address becomes the company name with a full stop in the middle of it.
Apply that test before anything else. Say the finished address out loud to somebody who has not seen it written down. If it sounds like the company name, the extension is earning its keep. If you find yourself saying "dot media, M E D I A", it is not, and you have bought a longer domain at a higher annual price than the .co.uk you already own.
The second half of that test is the mishearing. Somebody who hears "Redwing Media" and goes to type it will produce redwingmedia.com about as often as redwing.media, because the ear does not hear where the dot goes. That is a real cost and it is worth planning around: hold the version you expect people to type, even if it is only pointed at the address you actually use.
Availability is stranger here than on a .co.uk
IANA entered .media into the root zone on 3 April 2014, and the sponsoring organisation is Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital. It arrived there through the same IANA transfer of 23 March 2018 that moved .academy and 195 other extensions in one go, so the rules governing it are portfolio rules rather than anything written for the media trade.
Two of them change what you will find when you search. Identity Digital operates the Domains Protected Marks List, which blocks a trademarked string across its whole portfolio in one purchase, so a name can be closed to you without anybody having registered it. It also applies homographic blocking to every domain it sells, at no charge and with nothing to activate: at purchase it identifies and blocks the lookalike permutations of your name so nobody can register them later. The first of those is an obstacle, the second is a real piece of value that comes free with the registration, and neither is mentioned on the checkout page.
DPML defensively blocks registrations of trademarked brands across the Identity Digital portfolio of domains. At time of purchase, all Identity Digital domain names matching the trademarked brand are reserved, allowing only the trademark holder to register them going forward.
What that means if you are buying one
This is why a .media name can come back unavailable with no owner listed anywhere. If the word before the dot is somebody else's registered trademark, the block may already be in place, and no registrar can sell you round it. Check the name against the trademark registers before you print anything, not after.
Is .media the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.media works well if
- Your company is already called something Media, so moving the word past the dot shortens the address without changing the name at all.
- The .co.uk version of your name is taken, and every free variant needs a hyphen, an abbreviation or a filler word to work.
- You produce content across formats, so a narrower extension such as .tv or .fm would describe only part of what you do.
- Clients find you through referral, credits and portfolio links rather than by typing a name into a browser bar.
Look elsewhere if
- It is the priciest extension in this group and it renews at that price every year. Against a .co.uk the difference over a decade is real money for a small studio.
- People who hear your name will type the .com version. You will end up buying that too, which turns one annual bill into two.
- Your clients are UK businesses searching locally. Google reads a .co.uk as a UK site; a .media carries no country signal in either direction.
- The word "media" is not part of your name. Bolting it on to gain a shorter address gives you a name your customers do not use.
If everything you make is video, the .tv reads faster to that audience and costs less each year. See .tv pricing.
.media vs .tv: which should you register?
Production companies and content studios usually shortlist these two together, and they behave nothing alike. One is a generic extension from 2014 with a broad word in front of it. The other is Tuvalu's country code from 1996 that the video industry adopted and never gave back.
Pick .media when the work spans formats, when the word is already in your company name, or when you want an address that will still describe you after the business moves on from whatever it does now. It covers audio, print, events, social and video without arguing with any of them.
Pick .tv when video is the product rather than one of the services. Recognition is the whole reason it costs what it does: broadcasters and creators have used it for well over two decades, and an audience that watches things reads it instantly. It is also the cheaper of the two annually, which surprises people.
The awkward truth is that neither will be typed correctly by somebody who only heard it. Whichever you choose, work out which .com or .co.uk your customers will guess at, and hold that one as well.
| .media | .tv | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Generic | Country-code, used generically |
| In the root zone since | 2014 | 1996 |
| Registry | Binky Moon, Identity Digital | Tuvalu, run by GoDaddy Registry |
| Reads as | Content of any kind | Video and broadcast |
| Annual cost | Highest in this group | High, and higher again on premium names |
| Free lookalike blocking | Yes, on every domain | Not published |
.media domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .media domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The extension is open to anyone anywhere, with no sector check, no accreditation and no documents to supply. The word is descriptive rather than restrictive, so a training provider, a church or a wedding photographer can register one exactly as easily as a broadcaster. The only barriers are names already taken, names the registry has reserved, and names blocked by a trademark holder across the Identity Digital portfolio.
The registry sets the wholesale price, and short descriptive words in the 2014 round of new extensions were priced above the commodity tier from the start. There is nothing technical behind it: the DNS resolution, the record types and the DNSSEC support are identical to a .co.uk. You are paying for the word. Check the figure on this page against a .co.uk and remember the difference recurs annually for as long as you hold the name.
Some will, and you should assume it. When an address is heard rather than read, listeners cannot tell where the dot falls, so "Redwing Media" becomes redwingmedia.com in a lot of address bars. The fix is not to avoid the extension, it is to hold the version people will guess at and redirect it. Budget for two registrations if your work comes in by word of mouth, radio or podcast mentions.
Yes, and it can happen before you ever try. Identity Digital runs the Domains Protected Marks List, which reserves every matching name across its portfolio in a single purchase, leaving only the trademark holder able to register them. A name blocked that way shows as unavailable with nothing published about who holds it. Separately, a registered .media name can be challenged afterwards through the UDRP or the faster Uniform Rapid Suspension process that applies to extensions from this round.
.tv, if video is the product and the audience is used to seeing it. The extension has carried that meaning since long before streaming was normal, and it costs less annually than .media. Choose .media instead when the studio also does audio, events, print or social, or when "Media" is literally part of the registered company name, because then the address and the name become the same thing.
No, and it does not help them either. Google treats new generic extensions the same as .com and .org, and keywords in the extension give no advantage or disadvantage. The one real search consideration is geographic: a .co.uk tells Google the site is aimed at the United Kingdom, and a .media tells it nothing at all. If most of your enquiries come from UK searches, that is a point in favour of keeping a .co.uk as the main address.
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