.cleaning Domain
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What is a .cleaning domain?
The .cleaning extension is tailored for the cleaning industry, from domestic cleaners and window cleaners to commercial janitorial services. A .cleaning domain makes your business instantly identifiable and easy to find.
Who should register .cleaning?
Cleaning companies, domestic cleaners, janitorial services, and specialist cleaning providers.
Why choose .cleaning?
- Instantly identifies your trade
- Perfect for local service businesses
- Easy for customers to remember
- Stands out in search results
Who runs .cleaning, and since when
Registry data from the .cleaning 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, with no industry requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £63.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .cleaning domain really costs a local cleaner
Start with the bill, because it is the whole argument. A .cleaning domain costs around six times what a .co.uk costs, and it costs that again every year for as long as the business exists. For a trade where most jobs are booked within a few miles of the van and margins are thin, that is a decision rather than a rounding error, and any page that skips over it is selling rather than advising.
Search does not help the case either. Domestic cleaning is about as local as a category gets. People type cleaner near me, or end of tenancy cleaning followed by the name of their town, and Google reads .co.uk as a signal that a site is aimed at the United Kingdom. It reads .cleaning as a generic extension with no country attached, so the country code gives you something here and this one gives you nothing.
Where .cleaning earns its price is at the other end of the trade. A commercial contract cleaner bidding for office and school work, a franchise operating in a dozen towns, a specialist in ductwork, biohazard or solar panel cleaning: those businesses sell a category rather than a postcode, and the word after the dot does useful work in an email signature and on a tender document. Binky Moon operates the extension on the Identity Digital platform, it was delegated in January 2014, and anyone anywhere may register one with no checks at all.
Is .cleaning the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.cleaning works well if
- You are a commercial or contract cleaner selling nationally, where the address appears on tenders and email signatures rather than on a local flyer.
- You run a franchise or a multi-branch operation and no single town name belongs in the hub address.
- You are a specialist in something people search by service rather than by place, such as ductwork, biohazard or solar panel cleaning.
- Your trading name is long and the short version in front of .cleaning is still available when every .co.uk variant has gone.
Look elsewhere if
- You clean houses in one town. The extension costs roughly six times a .co.uk every year and adds nothing on the local searches that bring the work in.
- You compete mainly on price. That annual renewal is a fixed cost set against jobs priced by the hour, and it never goes away.
- Your customers are older or less confident online. A .co.uk is what they expect on a leaflet, and an unfamiliar ending reads as suspicious to some of them.
Cleaning houses in one town? A .co.uk costs a fraction of this and does more for the local searches you actually want. See .co.uk pricing.
.cleaning vs .services: which should you register?
If the .co.uk you wanted has gone and you are shopping among the newer extensions, these two are the realistic shortlist, and one of them costs about half the other.
.cleaning is precise. It names the trade, so a name like brightspark.cleaning explains itself with no strapline underneath. .services is broad and much cheaper, and it survives the business growing sideways into grounds maintenance, waste clearance or facilities work, which cleaning firms do more often than they expect at the outset.
The test is whether cleaning will still be the whole business in five years. If it will, pay for the precision. If you can already see the next service line, the broader word will not need replacing and the money saved covers a fair amount of advertising.
| .cleaning | .services | |
|---|---|---|
| Says the trade | Exactly | Not at all |
| Annual cost | Around double | Around half of .cleaning |
| Room to grow | Locks you to cleaning | Covers any service line |
| UK search signal | None | None |
| Best for | Specialists and contract cleaners | Multi-service trades businesses |
.cleaning domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .cleaning domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyUsually not, if the business is local. The extension costs roughly six times a .co.uk every year and delivers no advantage on the searches that produce domestic work, which are overwhelmingly local and where .co.uk carries a United Kingdom signal. It starts to pay off for contract cleaners, franchises and specialists selling a service nationally, where the address turns up on tenders rather than on a leaflet through a door.
Yes. There is no industry requirement, no trade body membership and no documentation. Binky Moon runs the extension under a standard ICANN agreement carrying the four commitments every new extension signs and no sector safeguards at all. Registration completes in minutes. The only practical limits are the reserved names list every registry maintains and whatever somebody else has already taken.
No. Google has been clear that words in an extension are not a ranking factor, so cleaning after the dot does nothing that cleaning in your page titles and content does not do better. The extension is a branding decision. If anything it costs you a small amount of local signal against a .co.uk, which Google does treat as evidence that a site targets the United Kingdom.
It follows the standard generic extension lifecycle: a grace period after expiry when you can renew normally, then a redemption period where recovery costs considerably more, then release back to general availability. The website and email stop working at the start of that process rather than at the end. Set the renewal to automatic, keep the contact address current, and never let the reminder go to a mailbox on the domain itself.
Included with Your .cleaning 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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