.salon Domain
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What is a .salon domain?
The .salon domain is tailored for beauty salons, hair salons, nail bars, and spa businesses. It tells potential clients exactly what to expect and helps your business stand out in local searches.
Who should register .salon?
Hair salons, beauty salons, nail bars, barber shops, and day spas.
Why choose .salon?
- Tailored for personal care
- Helps attract local clients
- Polished and professional
- Works across salon types
Who runs .salon, and since when
Registry data from the .salon 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 November 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with no salon, qualification or premises registration needed
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £51.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .salon domain costs a UK salon yearly
Start with the price, because for most salons it settles the question. A .salon domain costs several times what a .beauty costs with us and several times again what a .co.uk does, every year, for as long as the chairs are full. That is not an argument against buying one. It is an argument for knowing what the money buys: a word that describes your premises exactly and that no client has ever needed explained.
That is rarer than it sounds. Salon is one of the few trade words that means the same thing to the customer as it does to the trade. A client says she is going to the salon; a stylist says she works in one. Compare that with a category word, which names a market rather than a room. brightside.salon needs no strapline.
Binky Moon, LLC runs the extension under Identity Digital and asks nothing of you: no qualification, no insurance, no premises. Two things are worth knowing before you plan a brand around a name. Identity Digital reserves names at any time, premium ones included, and tells registrars they may request the reserved list from their account managers rather than publishing it, so a name can be unavailable with no public record of why. And the acceptable use policy prohibits holding out a status or credential you do not have, which is worth a look if your site describes anything as registered or approved.
Separately, in England a salon offering tattooing, semi-permanent skin-colouring, cosmetic piercing or electrolysis must be registered with the local authority under section 15 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, and must carry those treatments out in registered premises. The domain has no bearing on that, but your treatment list is the first page anyone checks.
Is .salon the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.salon works well if
- Your business name is already the brand and you want the ending to name the building: brightside.salon rather than brightsidehairandbeauty.co.uk.
- You offer hair, nails, skin and brows under one roof, so no single-service word covers what the business actually sells.
- You have more than one branch and want an address that reads as the chain rather than as whichever town came first.
- Your address goes on mirrors, gowns, cards and a shopfront, where a short word that needs no explanation earns back some of its cost.
Look elsewhere if
- You fill the diary from people who live nearby and find you on a phone. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that this does not, at a small fraction of the price.
- You are watching the overheads. This is one of the pricier endings we sell and it renews at the same rate every year, unlike the discounted first years some registrars advertise.
- You are a mobile stylist or renting a chair. The word points at premises you do not have, and clients will hear it as a building.
Want the sector word without the annual bill? A .beauty costs a fraction of this and reads just as clearly to a client. See .beauty pricing.
.salon vs .beauty: which should you register?
Both point at the same customer, and the price gap between them is the widest in this category. The only question is whether the word salon earns it.
Sometimes it does. A .salon names a place, and a place is what a hairdresser, a nail bar or a day spa actually sells: an appointment, in a room, at a time. A .beauty names a sector, which suits a product line, a mobile therapist, a training course or a brand that is not tied to one address. Read both aloud with your business name in front and the answer usually arrives in about a second.
If the two are close, take the cheaper one and put the difference into photography. Clients pick salons on how the work looks, not on what follows the dot, and nobody has ever booked a cut because of an ending.
| .salon | .beauty | |
|---|---|---|
| What the word names | A place with chairs and appointments | A sector and a product category |
| Registry operator | Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital) | XYZ.COM LLC |
| In the root zone since | November 2015 | April 2016 |
| Suits a mobile therapist | Poorly | Well |
| Annual cost | Several times the .beauty | Low |
.salon domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .salon domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Binky Moon, LLC applies no eligibility test at all, so there is no premises to evidence, no qualification to supply and no trade body to join. A mobile therapist, a training provider or a product brand can register one just as easily as a high street salon. Whether any of them should is a different question, because the word points at a building and most clients will read it that way.
Choose .salon when you have premises clients come to, and .beauty when you do not. The salon word names a room with chairs and a diary, which is what a high street business sells. The beauty word names a sector, which fits a mobile therapist, a product range or a course. Cost is the other half of it: .beauty is far cheaper with us every year, so unless the word salon is doing real work in your name, the saving is easy money.
It does if you offer certain treatments in England. Under section 15 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, a business carrying on tattooing, semi-permanent skin-colouring, cosmetic piercing or electrolysis must be registered by the local authority and must work from registered premises. Your treatment list is the page anyone checks first, so keeping the registration visible beside those services saves questions and looks like the professionalism it is.
It is most likely reserved. Identity Digital reserves names from registration at any time, including ones classed as premium, and says registrars may request the reserved list from their account managers instead of publishing it. So a name can be held back with no public record and no website on it. Send us the exact name and we will check what the registry says about it before you order signage or print anything.
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