.supplies Domain
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What is a .supplies domain?
The .supplies domain is built for trade suppliers, office supply companies, and bulk product distributors. It communicates that your site sells consumables, materials, and products that businesses need on a regular basis. Repeat orders are the business model, and .supplies fits that pattern.
Who should register .supplies?
Trade suppliers, office supply companies, cleaning product distributors, and bulk material stockists.
Why choose .supplies?
- Signals regular purchase products
- Works for trade and office supplies
- Appeals to B2B buyers
- Clear and descriptive
Who runs .supplies, and since when
Registry data from the .supplies 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 13 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to any registrant, with no trade account or business registration required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £24.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
How .supplies fits repeat orders and B2B buying
Start with the trap. The registry that runs .supplies also runs .supply, and IANA gives both the same root zone registration date of 13 February 2014. Two extensions, one word, one letter between them. Register the plural and somebody will eventually type the singular, and that somebody may be a buyer with a purchase order in their hand. Taking both and redirecting one is a few pounds a year and removes the problem permanently.
Past that, the word does honest work. Supplies means consumables: the things a business buys again next month rather than once. Cleaning products, catering disposables, print media, workshop consumables, dental and veterinary stock, office paper. That repeat pattern is the whole business model for a lot of trade suppliers, and an address ending .supplies tells a purchasing contact what kind of relationship they are starting.
Registration is open to anyone. IANA shows .supplies delegated to Atomic Fields, LLC in February 2014 and transferred to Binky Moon, LLC in March 2018 alongside 195 other extensions. Nothing in the registry policies asks you to hold a trade account, be VAT registered, or prove you supply anything.
The honest limitation is search. A purchasing manager looking for catering disposables types catering disposables, not a domain. The extension helps once they know you, on a reorder email or a printed price list, far more than it helps them find you the first time. Treat it as a memory aid for accounts you already hold rather than a way of winning new ones.
Is .supplies the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.supplies works well if
- You sell consumables that customers reorder on a cycle, so the address is read most often by people who already buy from you.
- Your trade name plus the word supplies is how customers already describe you on purchase orders and delivery notes.
- You are splitting a consumables catalogue away from a main business that trades under a different name.
- You want an address that reads as business to business without putting trade or wholesale in the name itself.
Look elsewhere if
- You cannot register the .supply singular as well. One letter separates them, and a mistyped order email lands nowhere, or somewhere worse.
- You depend on new customers finding you through search, where product terms and a UK .co.uk do far more than the words in an extension.
- You sell to consumers rather than businesses. Supplies reads as trade counter, which can make a retail site feel like the wrong door.
Selling consumables to UK consumers rather than businesses? A .co.uk reads as local and costs less each year. See .co.uk pricing.
.supplies vs .co.uk: which should you register?
A UK trade supplier is comparing a descriptive word against a national one, and the two are not competing on the same ground. .co.uk tells Google and the reader that you are British. .supplies tells them what you sell. Neither does the other's job.
.co.uk is the safer single choice for a UK supplier: cheaper every year, read as local by customers and by Google, and moved between registrars near instantly because a .uk transfer is an IPS tag change rather than a registry transfer. .supplies is the better second address, or the better first one if you trade across Europe and a British extension would narrow you.
Most trade suppliers land on the .co.uk as the working address with a descriptive extension pointing at it. Which one you print matters more than which one you own, so make them the same.
| .supplies | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Signals | What you sell | Where you are |
| Geographic weight in Google | None | United Kingdom |
| Annual cost | Several times a .co.uk | Low |
| Transfer between registrars | Hours to days | Near instant IPS tag change |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individual registrants |
.supplies domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .supplies domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyThey are two separate top-level domains run by the same registry, one letter apart. IANA gives both a root zone registration date of 13 February 2014, and both now sit under Binky Moon, LLC. A .supplies domain and the matching .supply domain are different registrations, owned by different people, unless you buy the pair. For a trade supplier taking orders by email that is a reason to register both and redirect one, rather than discover the difference when a purchase order goes astray.
Anyone, anywhere, with nothing checked. There is no requirement to be a supplier, hold a trade account, be VAT registered or supply any documents at the point of order. The registry applies its acceptable use policy across all its extensions for the life of the registration, and inaccurate registration data is one of the grounds it can act on, so keep the contact details on the domain current and reachable.
It earns its place as a second address more often than as a first. A .supplies name is memorable on a reorder email, a price list or a delivery note, which is where trade customers actually meet your address. For being found in the first place a .co.uk does more, costs less, and carries a UK signal in Google search. Owning both is the usual outcome, and the combined bill still sits well under the cost of one lost account.
It expires, then sits in a grace period during which you can still renew it, then a redemption period where restoring it costs a fee on top, and after that it is released for anybody to register. Because .supplies renews at several times a .co.uk, it is exactly the sort of domain that gets let go by accident, particularly one registered defensively. Set auto-renew on anything your email or your invoices depend on, and keep the contact address on the domain one you still read.
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