.webcam Domain
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Register your .webcam domain from just £27.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .webcam domain?
The .webcam domain serves live camera feeds, video conferencing platforms, and webcam hardware retailers. Tourism boards running live scenic feeds, ski resorts showing slope conditions, and wildlife trusts streaming nest cams all use .webcam to tell visitors they'll find a live visual feed. It's niche, and that niche knows what it wants.
Who should register .webcam?
Live camera feed operators, webcam hardware retailers, scenic tourism feeds, and wildlife streaming projects.
Why choose .webcam?
- Signals live visual content
- Perfect for scenic and wildlife feeds
- Niche with a dedicated audience
- Clearly describes the content type
Who runs .webcam, and since when
Registry data from the .webcam 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
- dot Webcam Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 6 March 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide under a standard non-sponsored ICANN registry agreement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £27.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Who runs .webcam, and what it sits alongside
.webcam is run by dot Webcam Limited, a Gibraltar company, under an ICANN registry agreement dated 23 January 2014. It is the standard base contract, non-sponsored, and the section where a registry can add its own commitments is marked as intentionally omitted. There is no eligibility test of any kind. Anyone can register one.
What is worth knowing before you buy is the company it keeps. The same operator publishes .webcam under the GRS Domains brand alongside .review, .date, .racing, .faith, .win, .loan, .stream, .accountant, .science, .bid, .cricket, .men, .download, .trade and .party. That is a portfolio sold on volume rather than on prestige, which is a fair thing to know before you put a mailbox on one. Send a test message from the address to a Microsoft 365 inbox and a Gmail inbox before you move any real email across.
There is a plainer problem too, and it is the word rather than the registry. Webcam carries an adult-content association that has nothing whatever to do with a ski slope or a nest box, and filters that work on keywords do not read context. If your audience watches from schools, hospitals, councils or corporate offices, load the address from one of those networks before you print it on a sign.
Is .webcam the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.webcam works well if
- The live feed is the whole product: a harbour camera, a nest box, a slope view, and it deserves an address of its own.
- You sell webcam hardware or streaming kit, and you want the category word in the address rather than only in the page title.
- The camera is promoted separately from any one brand, for example a tourism feed sponsored by several organisations at once.
Look elsewhere if
- The feed belongs to a business that already has a domain. A subdomain such as webcam.yourtrust.org.uk costs nothing, inherits the trust you have built, and never needs renewing separately.
- Your visitors watch from school, workplace or public sector networks. The word attracts keyword filtering that has nothing to do with your content, and nobody will write to tell you.
- You will send email from it. A niche name from a volume portfolio is a bigger deliverability gamble than a .co.uk, so test it before migrating a mailbox.
Already own the main site? A subdomain costs nothing, and if you do want a second address, a .co.uk builds more trust with a UK audience. See .co.uk pricing.
.webcam vs .co.uk: which should you register?
This is really a comparison between buying a second domain and using a subdomain of the one you already own. A .co.uk at £9.99 is the cheaper second domain. A subdomain is free.
The case for .webcam is that the address describes the content before anyone clicks, which counts when a link is shared out of context or printed on a board at a viewpoint. The case for .co.uk is everything else: a third of the price, a UK signal Google reads as a country target, no keyword filtering, and an extension visitors have seen thousands of times. For most British operators the feed belongs on the main domain.
.webcam domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .webcam domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNone beyond the standard rules that apply to every new extension. The ICANN registry agreement for .webcam, dated 23 January 2014, is the base non-sponsored contract, and the clause where a registry can add its own commitments is recorded as intentionally omitted. No trade body, no verification, no local presence. What does apply is the usual anti-abuse regime every registrar must write into its registration agreement, covering malware, phishing, botnets, counterfeiting and other unlawful activity, with suspension as the consequence.
It can be, and the risk is worth testing rather than assuming. Content filters used by schools, councils, hospitals and corporate networks commonly match on keywords, and "webcam" is a keyword with a strong adult-content association that a filter has no way of separating from a wildlife camera. Nothing about the extension is inherently blocked, but the word invites the wrong classification. Before you print the address on signage or a leaflet, load it once from a school or office network and confirm it comes through.
For most organisations, a subdomain. An address like webcam.yourtrust.org.uk costs nothing, carries the reputation of the domain you already run, needs no separate renewal and cannot lapse by accident. A separate .webcam makes sense when the camera really is its own thing, for instance a feed operated jointly by several bodies, or a product you sell access to. If you register one anyway, keep the main site as the address of record and treat the .webcam as the memorable route in.
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DNS Management
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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