.photography Domain
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Register your .photography domain from just £31.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .photography domain?
The .photography domain carries the full weight of the profession in your web address. It communicates dedication and specialism, distinguishing professional photographers from casual hobbyists.
Who should register .photography?
Professional photographers, photography studios, wedding photographers, and commercial photography firms.
Why choose .photography?
- Conveys professional commitment
- Distinguishes from hobbyists
- Ideal for studio websites
- Strong search relevance
Who runs .photography, and since when
Registry data from the .photography 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 13 November 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone; no professional accreditation or portfolio required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £31.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .photography is worth twelve extra characters
Count the characters first. A .photography domain adds twelve characters to your address counting the dot, which makes it one of the longest extensions in common use. That is easy to test before you buy: write the full address out by hand, then read it down a phone to somebody who has to write it down at the other end. If it survives both, the extension is fine. If your studio name is already three words, it will not.
There are shorter relatives and they do not mean the same thing. .photos reads as a collection, which suits an archive or a shared set better than a business. .photo is singular and sits oddly for a studio. .pictures is the cheapest of the group by a distance and the least specific of the four. .photography is the only one that names the profession rather than the output, which is why people accept the extra characters.
On search, be clear-eyed about what you are buying. The word in the extension is read by people scanning a results page, and that helps them choose you when your competitors are all trading as initials. It is not a ranking factor: Google treats keyword extensions the same as any other generic extension. The advantage is with the reader, not the algorithm.
Binky Moon has run it since 2013. Registration is open, and nothing in the address certifies that anybody has looked at your work.
Is .photography the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.photography works well if
- You are a working photographer and your surname .com belongs to somebody else, which is how most people arrive here.
- Your studio name is one short word, so the long extension still leaves a manageable address.
- You want the profession named in the address for people scanning a results page or a supplier directory.
- You shoot weddings or commercial work, where clients find you by name and type it deliberately rather than guessing.
Look elsewhere if
- Your business name is already long. Add twelve characters and the address stops fitting anywhere useful.
- People need to type it after hearing it once. Photography is easy to spell and tedious to dictate.
- You want a local advantage for a studio serving one town. A .co.uk carries the British signal that this cannot.
Publishing a collection rather than selling a service? A .photos is shorter, cheaper and describes the output more accurately. See .photos pricing.
.photography vs .photos: which should you register?
One names the profession, the other names the pile of files. That sounds like a small distinction and it changes who each address suits.
.photography is the right buy for a person or a studio selling a service, because it describes what you do for a living. .photos is shorter, a few pounds cheaper each year, and reads as a collection: an archive, a set of images, a gallery from one event.
Both are run by Binky Moon and both are open to anybody, so the decision comes down entirely to which word describes the site.
| .photography | .photos | |
|---|---|---|
| What it names | The profession | The output |
| Characters after the dot | Eleven | Six |
| Annual cost | A few pounds more | A few pounds less |
| Best for | Studios and working photographers | Archives and shared collections |
| In the root zone since | 2013 | 2013 |
.photography domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .photography domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyIt is the longest extension most people will consider, and whether that matters depends on the name in front of it. A one-word studio name keeps the whole address workable. A three-word trading name does not, and you will feel it every time you write an email address on a booking form. Test the full address on paper and out loud before you order rather than after.
Choose .photography if you sell a service and .photos if you are publishing a collection. The first names the profession, which is what a client is buying; the second names the output, which suits an archive, a shared event set or a stock library. Both come from Binky Moon and both are open to anybody, and .photos costs a few pounds less each year.
Not through the extension itself. Google treats keyword extensions like any other generic extension, so the word after the dot is not a ranking factor. Where it does help is the moment a human scans the results: the word tells them what the site is before they read the title, which can win the click. Rankings still come from the pages, the links and the local signals you build.
No. There is no accreditation to prove, no portfolio to submit and no trade body to join. That is worth knowing in both directions: it makes registration quick, and it means the extension is not evidence of standing when you are checking out somebody else. Identity Digital's acceptable use policy does treat claiming a credential you do not hold as abusive use of a domain.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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