Creative Domain Names
Browse 22 creative domains from just £12.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
Creative Domain Names
For artists, designers, photographers, and creative professionals, your domain name is part of your portfolio. Creative domain extensions like .design, .art, .studio, and .gallery let your web address communicate your craft before visitors even reach your site. They make a statement about who you are and what you do.
The creative industry thrives on visual impact and memorability. A domain like yourname.design or yourstudio.art is inherently more engaging than a generic alternative. These extensions are also excellent for SEO, as they provide clear topical signals to search engines about your site's content and purpose.
Whether you are a freelance illustrator building a portfolio, a photography studio showcasing your work, or a design agency establishing your brand, 365i offers a curated selection of creative domain extensions. All registrations include free DNS management and email forwarding to get your creative presence online quickly.
How to pick between .design, .studio, .art and .photography
Twenty-two extensions sit in this category and they split three ways. Some name the craft: .design, .photography, .graphics, .photo. Some name the outfit: .studio, .gallery, .band. The rest are a word with a tone to it, .ink, .rocks, .ninja, .pink, .monster, chosen for how they sound rather than what they say. Only the middle group survives you changing what you do. All of them have to work in the two places the address really gets used: read off a card, and typed by a client who heard it once on a call.
.design and .studio are the two most people end up between. Putting the discipline in the address reads well while that is what you sell, and reads oddly the year you start describing yourself as a brand consultant instead. .studio describes the setup, so it still fits after the work moves. For photographers the gap is narrower than it looks: .photography at £31.99 reads as a service and sits naturally on an invoice, while .photo at £29.99 reads as a thing and suits a portfolio more than a business.
One fact about .art is worth having before you buy it as a credential. The registry states that a .art domain is open to anyone, listing individual artists, galleries, museums, collectors and brands alike, so the extension shows taste rather than standing. In a field where taste is the product that's still worth something, but it isn't a badge and nobody checked your work.
Price is where a few of these stop being a design decision. .theatre is £454 a year and .guitars £112, every year, for as long as the site exists. Against those, .studio at £34.99 and .art at £25.99 are ordinary running costs. And if your invoices go to UK clients, the .co.uk is the address they will try first, so hold that one whatever else you print.
What we would suggest
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A design studio whose name has gone on .com
.designThe extension carries the word, so the studio name stands alone at the second level rather than turning into namedesignltd.com. At £44.99 it is the dearest of the everyday creative extensions, and that is the trade you are making.
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A photographer taking bookings and selling prints
.photographyPhotography is the word people type when they are hiring rather than browsing, and the full extension reads as a service on a quote. The cost is length: twelve characters land in every email address you hand out.
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A small motion or production house
.studioIt names the outfit instead of the discipline, so the address survives the year you move from motion work into branding. It is also quicker to say aloud than .photography or .graphics, which matters on a phone call.
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A commercial gallery listing exhibitions
.galleryThe extension does the explaining, so the space can hold its own name at the second level instead of tacking the word gallery on the end of it. Useful when the name is a person or a street.
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An artist selling original work directly
.artThe registry publishes that .art is open to anyone, from a one-person practice to a museum, so there is no application to make and no sector body to join. At £25.99 it is one of the cheaper statements in the category.
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A band with gigs and a mailing list
.bandIt names the group rather than a member, so the address still reads correctly after a line-up change, and it avoids the yourbandmusic.com compromise when the plain name has gone.
Available Extensions
Browse all 22 creative domains from £12.99/yr. All prices exclude VAT.
Mistakes we see with creative domains
Worth reading before you register, because most of these cost money to undo.
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Registering the creative extension and leaving the matching .co.uk for somebody else to take. UK clients type .co.uk out of habit, and whoever holds it collects the enquiries you paid to earn.
Do this insteadRegister the .co.uk alongside it and point one at the other. Both sit in the same My365i control panel, and free DNS management and email forwarding come with each of them.
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Choosing the extension that describes the work you happen to do this year. A motion designer who moves into brand strategy spends the next decade explaining an address that names an old job.
Do this insteadIf the work is likely to widen, pick a string that describes the outfit, .studio, rather than the service, .design or .graphics. Reprinting stationery is cheaper than losing an address people already know.
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Picking a string that only works on screen. .moda, .moe and .ink get misheard on a call and mistyped afterwards, and you never find out about the enquiry that went nowhere.
Do this insteadSay the whole address out loud to somebody who has not seen it written. If they ask you to spell it, keep it for the printed work and give the phone a plainer address to write down.
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Treating the domain as a one-off purchase. .theatre runs to £454 a year and .guitars £112, and those bills arrive every year for as long as the portfolio is online.
Do this insteadAdd up ten years of renewals before you commit. If the total makes you wince, .studio, .art or .graphics do the same job for a fraction of it.
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Letting the contact details on the domain go stale after a studio move or a name change. Identity Digital, which runs .studio, .gallery, .photography and several others here, can suspend a registration where the registrant fails to keep its information accurate.
Do this insteadKeep a monitored address on the domain rather than a project inbox you will close, and update it the day you move. It takes a minute in the My365i control panel.
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Buying the domain before checking the handles. A creative identity gets judged as a set, and discovering the name has gone on Instagram after the cards are printed is an expensive way to find out.
Do this insteadCheck the social handles first, then register the domain to match. The domain is much easier to swap later than an audience is.
Included with Every Creative Domains Registration
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
Set up professional email addresses and forward to any inbox.
Auto-Renewal
Never lose your domain with automatic renewal protection.
Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
Creative Domains FAQ
Creative domains are excellent for portfolio sites. An address like yourname.design or yourname.photography immediately tells potential clients what you do. Many creative professionals find these extensions more memorable and impactful than a standard .com.
Yes. Creative domains are not limited to individuals. Design agencies, photography studios, galleries, and creative businesses of all types use these extensions to reinforce their brand identity and stand out in a crowded market.
Google treats all generic TLDs equally in search rankings. A .design domain has the same ranking potential as a .com. The added benefit is that creative extensions provide a clear signal to both search engines and visitors about your site's content.
Absolutely. Every domain registered through 365i includes free email forwarding. You can create professional email addresses like hello@yourstudio.design and forward them to your existing inbox.
The creative category includes many extensions, .design, .art, .studio, .gallery, .photo, .photography, and .graphics among others. If your preferred name is taken on one extension, it is likely available on another.
No. The .art registry publishes that a .art domain is open to anyone, and lists individual artists, galleries, museums, art schools, foundations, brands and collectors side by side. There is no portfolio review, no sector body to join and no paperwork to send in. That cuts both ways: because nothing is checked, the extension says something about your taste rather than your standing, and a buyer who cares about provenance will still judge the work. Registration is £25.99 a year through 365i, with free DNS management and email forwarding included.
.photography suits a business taking bookings, because it is the word people search when they are hiring and it reads as a service on a quote or an invoice. .photo suits a body of work, a print shop or a personal portfolio, where the address points at images rather than at a supplier. Price will not decide it, since the two sit at £31.99 and £29.99 a year. Length might: the .photography extension is twelve characters, and all twelve turn up in every email address you print.
Most of this category sits between £22 and £45 a year: .rocks at £22.99, .art at £25.99, .photography at £31.99, .studio at £34.99 and .design at £44.99. Two are outliers worth knowing about before you fall for the name, .guitars at £112 and .theatre at £454, both annual. Whatever you pick, the bill repeats for as long as the site is up, so price it as a running cost and not a purchase. A .co.uk held alongside costs a fraction of any of them and gives UK clients the address they will guess first.
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Choose from 22 creative domains from just £12.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included.
