.catering Domain
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What is a .catering domain?
The .catering domain is purpose-built for companies that bring food to the occasion. Whether you specialise in weddings, corporate events, or private dining, this extension tells prospective clients exactly what you do.
Who should register .catering?
Catering companies, event caterers, corporate catering services, and private chefs.
Why choose .catering?
- Describes your service instantly
- Ideal for event-focused marketing
- Professional and industry-specific
- Easy for clients to remember
Who runs .catering, and since when
Registry data from the .catering 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 30 January 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, caterers and everybody else alike
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £34.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Whether .catering earns its eight characters
Eight characters after the dot. Weigh that first, because a caterer's address usually already carries a company name, and pattonandsons.catering runs to twenty two characters before anybody types a slash. It looks fine down the side of a van. It is harder work on a business card, in an email signature, and read out across a noisy wedding fair.
What you get back is a word nobody has to interpret. .catering is delegated to Binky Moon and reached the root zone at the end of January 2014, which puts it among the earliest of the new endings, so the short and obvious names went a long time ago. There is no eligibility rule and none is coming: the registry has committed to ICANN that second level registrations will be open and available to lawful registrants, and that it will not limit eligibility based on identity.
One thing catches people out. A name can appear unavailable without being registered by anybody. Identity Digital operates a Domains Protected Marks List, which lets a trademark holder block a matching string across the extensions it runs, so if the word you want returns nothing and cannot be bought, a block is a likely explanation rather than a glitch in the search.
For most UK caterers the .co.uk keeps doing the work, because enquiries arrive through local search and Google Business Profile rather than from somebody guessing a domain. .catering makes better sense as a second address for one service line, corporate lunches or weddings, pointed at the page that sells it.
Is .catering the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.catering works well if
- Your company name gives no clue what you do, and you would rather the address explained the business than a strapline nobody reads.
- You are separating one service line, weddings or corporate or film unit catering, onto its own address and campaign.
- The address is going on a van, a marquee banner or a gazebo, where length costs nothing and clarity is worth everything.
- You trade under a name whose .co.uk was taken in 2003 by somebody in a different county entirely.
Look elsewhere if
- Eight characters after the dot makes for a long address on a card, in an email signature and when spelled out down a phone.
- Your enquiries come from local search. A .co.uk carries a UK country signal that .catering does not, and costs less to keep.
- Clients pass your details on verbally at events. Every extra syllable in the address is another chance for that referral to arrive at nowhere.
Catering for events across one county? A .co.uk is shorter, cheaper and carries the UK signal in search. See .co.uk pricing.
.catering vs .co.uk: which should you register?
Length is the first thing that separates these two, and it runs the opposite way to the assumption. A .co.uk is six characters after the dot and .catering is eight, so the descriptive option is barely longer than the country one. What actually differs is what each says.
.co.uk tells Google where you are, which matters enormously for a caterer, because almost every enquiry starts with a place name attached to the search. .catering tells a human what you do, which matters at the moment somebody reads your address on a banner or forwards it to a bride. Those two audiences want different things from the same string.
The costs are not close. A .catering renewal runs several times a .co.uk renewal every year, and a .co.uk transfer is a near instant IPS tag change while .catering takes hours to days. For a business that quotes on margin, the .co.uk stays the address and .catering becomes the campaign.
| .catering | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Letters after the dot | Eight | Six |
| Tells the reader | What you do | Where you are |
| UK local search | No country signal | Clear UK signal |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals |
| Transfer time | Hours to days | Near instant, IPS tag STACK |
.catering domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .catering domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The registry checks nothing about your trade, your premises or your certification, and it has committed to ICANN that second level registrations will be open and available to lawful registrants without limiting eligibility based on identity. Whatever registrations or hygiene requirements apply to your catering business apply because of the food you serve, not because of the domain you own, and the two have no connection at all.
It is the longest ending in this batch at eight characters, and that is a real cost on printed material and on the phone. It is not fatal. The test is how the whole address reads, not the extension in isolation: a short trading name in front of it can come out shorter than a long name in front of a .co.uk. Say the full address out loud twice before you buy, and if you stumble on it, so will your customers.
Instead of, rarely. Alongside, often. The .co.uk gives Google a UK country signal that helps you in exactly the local searches caterers depend on, and it costs several times less every year. Where .catering earns its keep is a second address on one service line, printed on a banner or used in a campaign, redirecting to the page that sells that service. Both can be registered to the same account and managed from the My365i control panel.
Included with Your .catering Domain
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.
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