.works Domain
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What is a .works domain?
The .works domain is the plural sibling of .work, and the extra letter changes the meaning. Where .work is about doing, .works is about results. Portfolio sites, creative studios, and engineering firms use it to present completed projects. It also doubles as a statement: yourbrand.works. That sentence structure is hard to ignore in marketing materials.
Who should register .works?
Creative studios, engineering firms, portfolio sites, and brands wanting a sentence-style domain.
Why choose .works?
- Doubles as a complete sentence
- Focuses on results and output
- Ideal for portfolios and case studies
- Versatile across creative and industrial sectors
Who runs .works, and since when
Registry data from the .works 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 16 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no business registration or local presence needed
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £33.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .works and .work are not the same domain
Grammatically they are a pair. Commercially they have nothing to do with one another, and that is what catches people out. IANA records the .works domain to Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital, delegated on 16 January 2014. It records .work to an entirely different company, Registry Services, LLC, delegated seven months later on 18 August 2014. Two operators, two contracts, and two quite different price lists: on our own pricing .work costs well under half what .works costs each year.
That matters more than a piece of trivia normally would. Registering acme.works reserves acme.works and nothing else. The .work version stays available to anybody, a competitor included, and every customer who drops the s lands wherever that person points it. There is no shared registry, no shared reserved list and no mechanism tying the two together. If the name matters, price up both and decide deliberately rather than discovering the gap later.
The two meanings of works, and both are usable
The first is the sentence trick the extension was built for. Read thebike.works or thisthing.works aloud and the address makes a claim rather than pointing at a server. It is a good device for a campaign site, a product launch or a portfolio, and it is a large part of why the extension exists.
The second is older and gets overlooked. In British English a works is a place where things are made: the gasworks, the ironworks, an old print works down by the canal. For an engineering firm, a fabricator or a joinery, that reading is closer to the truth than anything a generic extension offers, and it does not depend on the reader getting a joke. The registry side is simple either way. The agreement, signed on 14 November 2013, is base and non-sponsored, so there is no eligibility test, no company registration to show and no country you have to be in. The names held back are the usual ones: two character labels, country and territory names, and the registry premium list.
Two checks are worth making before you commit. Search both spellings, because the price and the availability differ and finding that out afterwards is expensive. Then read the renewal price rather than the first-year one. ICANN rules oblige the registry to give 180 days notice of a renewal increase and to price renewals uniformly across the extension, but a name the registry classes as premium can carry a higher renewal, and that has to be disclosed clearly at the point of first registration rather than sprung on you at year two.
Is .works the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.works works well if
- Your name completes a sentence when the extension is read with it, so the address says something instead of merely pointing somewhere.
- You are an engineering firm, a fabricator or a workshop, and the older sense of a works as a place where things are built fits the brand.
- You are publishing a portfolio or a case study site and want it clearly separate from the main company address.
- You need a memorable address for a campaign or a product launch that will never be confused with your permanent domain.
Look elsewhere if
- The near identical .work exists, is run by a different company and costs less than half as much. A dropped s sends your visitor to a stranger.
- Spelling it out over the phone means stressing a single letter, which is the kind of detail people reliably get wrong.
- It costs roughly three and a half times a .co.uk a year, which is hard to defend for a site that mostly serves one town.
- If the sentence only lands in English, the effect is lost on any customer reading the address in another language.
Not building a portfolio or a campaign site? A .co.uk costs a fraction of this and carries a UK signal in search. See .co.uk pricing.
.works vs .work: which should you register?
Almost everyone who reaches this page has been comparing these two, usually after noticing the price gap. The gap is there because they are unrelated products. .works is one of the Identity Digital keyword extensions, run by Binky Moon under a 2013 agreement. .work belongs to Registry Services and arrived in the root zone in August 2014. Owning one gives you no claim whatsoever on the other.
Where .work wins: price, plainly. It is the cheaper by a wide margin, and the singular reads more naturally for anything about jobs, employment or freelance hire. Where .works wins: the sentence structure, and the industrial meaning that suits a workshop or an engineering business.
The real decision is whether to buy both. For a hobby project or a short campaign, take the one you want and accept the typo risk. For a brand you expect to still be trading in ten years, buying the pair and redirecting the spare is cheap insurance against somebody else owning the address your customers keep typing.
| .works | .work | |
|---|---|---|
| Registry operator | Binky Moon, LLC | Registry Services, LLC |
| Root zone since | January 2014 | August 2014 |
| Annual cost | More than double the .work | The cheaper of the pair |
| Reads as | Output, a portfolio, a works | A job, or the act of working |
| Who may register | Anyone worldwide | Anyone worldwide |
| Typo risk | Visitors drop the s | Visitors add an s |
.works domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .works domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyThey are separate extensions run by separate companies. IANA records .works to Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital, delegated in January 2014, and .work to Registry Services, LLC, delegated in August 2014. The prices differ sharply, with .work costing well under half as much per year. Owning one gives you no rights over the other, so acme.works and acme.work can end up in completely different hands.
For a brand you intend to keep, yes, and treat the second one as insurance rather than a website. The two addresses differ by one letter nobody hears clearly over the phone, and whoever holds the one you did not buy collects your mistyped traffic. For a short campaign or a side project the risk is small enough to accept. Point the spare at the main site with a redirect so it costs you nothing beyond the annual fee.
Anyone, with no checks at any stage. The ICANN registry agreement is a base, non-sponsored contract with no eligibility specification, and it commits the operator to keeping registrations open and available to lawful registrants. You need no company registration, no trade body membership and no address in any particular country. The restrictions that do apply are on names rather than people: two character labels, country and territory names, and the registry's own premium and reserved lists.
It is neither good nor bad. Google stated in July 2015 that new generic extensions are treated the same as .com and .org, and that keywords in an extension give no advantage or disadvantage in search. What you give up against a .co.uk is the geographic signal, because Google reads a country-code domain as strong evidence a site is meant for that country. For a UK business chasing local searches that is the argument against .works, not any ranking penalty.
It can, and that is one of the better reasons to choose it. In British English a works is a place where things are made, as in gasworks, ironworks or print works, so a fabricator, a foundry or a joinery reads naturally with it. The other meaning is the sentence device, where the name plus the extension makes a claim: thisthing.works. Pick whichever reading matches the business and use it consistently across signage and stationery.
Up to five days, and often less. You need the authorisation code from your current registrar and the domain must be unlocked, and ICANN rules block a transfer within 60 days of first registration or of a previous transfer. Under the transfer policy the losing registrar has five calendar days to respond before the transfer approves by default. That is slower than a .uk domain, which moves near instantly on an IPS tag change, but your remaining registration period carries over and a year is added.
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