.movie Domain
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What is a .movie domain?
The .movie domain serves the film industry from a different angle than .film. Where .film carries an arthouse, production-side connotation, .movie is more consumer-facing: it's the word people use when they're looking for something to watch. Cinema chains, streaming guides, movie review sites, and fan communities all fit under .movie.
Who should register .movie?
Cinema chains, film review sites, streaming guides, movie fan communities, and entertainment news publishers.
Why choose .movie?
- Consumer-facing film branding
- The word people actually search for
- Ideal for reviews and listings
- Complements rather than competes with .film
Who runs .movie, and since when
Registry data from the .movie 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
- 2015
- Delegated 12 March 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no film industry credential or verification required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £219.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The .movie price is the decision, not the branding
Every other page about .movie talks about branding. The number on this page is the only thing that matters. At the price we sell it for, a .movie costs more than twenty .co.uk registrations, every year, for as long as you keep it. Hold one for a decade and you have spent four figures on a word after a dot. Nothing about the extension is technically different from a .co.uk: same DNS, same DNSSEC, same mail records. The registry simply charges more.
That price is deliberate. Binky Moon, the Identity Digital subsidiary that runs it, has kept .movie in its premium band since the extension entered the root zone on 12 March 2015. High wholesale pricing keeps the zone small and keeps speculators out, which is why .movie names are still available when equivalents elsewhere are long gone.
Nothing is verified. The registry agreement commits the operator to open registration and forbids it from limiting eligibility by identity, so the price is the only gate. If you can pay it you can have it, and if you cannot, the extension tells you so honestly, which is more than most do.
Is .movie the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.movie works well if
- You are protecting a title. A studio or distributor registering thetitle.movie is buying a defensive asset, and the annual cost sits inside a marketing budget.
- The domain is the product. A single word .movie name that reads as a brand can justify itself where a descriptive one cannot.
- You need a short address for print, trailers or out of home advertising, where every character you drop is worth paying for.
Look elsewhere if
- You are running a review blog or a fan site. The annual price is out of all proportion to the revenue a site like that earns.
- You want the option to walk away. Letting a .movie lapse hands a name you have promoted to whoever picks it up next, and buying it back is not guaranteed.
- You are comparing it on branding alone. Consumers do not know or care that .movie exists, so the extension buys recognition you would still have to pay to build.
Writing about films rather than releasing one? A .co.uk costs a fraction of this and does more for UK search. See .co.uk pricing.
.movie vs .film: which should you register?
Same subject, different audience, wildly different bill. .film is the trade word and sits at a price an established production company can absorb. .movie is the consumer word and sits at a price that only makes sense when the name itself is an asset you are defending.
The honest steer for almost everyone reading this: register the .film, or the .co.uk, and revisit .movie if the project ever gets the kind of budget where a domain renewal is not a line anybody queries. Buying the expensive one first and discovering you cannot keep renewing it is worse than never having it, because you will have printed it on something by then.
.movie domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .movie domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyThe registry prices it that way on purpose. Binky Moon has kept .movie in a premium band since launch, and high wholesale pricing is a standard way for a registry to keep a small zone free of speculators and available for the names people actually want. There is no extra service behind the price. You get the same DNS, the same DNSSEC and the same registrar features as a nine pound domain, and you pay for the scarcity.
No, the registry does not check rights at registration, but registering someone else's title is still a bad idea. Every new extension is covered by the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, and a rights holder with a registered trade mark can bring a complaint and have the name transferred. You would lose the domain and the registration fee, which at this price point is a painful way to learn the rule.
For almost every film website, yes. A .co.uk gives you a UK signal in Google search that .movie does not, at a fraction of the annual cost, and visitors arrive from search, social and links rather than by typing the address. .movie earns its price in one situation: the name is the brand, it goes on printed and broadcast advertising, and losing it to somebody else would cost more than the renewals ever will.
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