.cooking Domain
From Kitchen to Browser in One Word
Register your .cooking domain from just £30.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .cooking domain?
The .cooking domain is built for people who live and breathe food preparation. Recipe bloggers, cookery schools, YouTube cooking channels, meal kit companies: if your content starts at the chopping board, .cooking frames it in exactly the right context. It's warm, inviting, and tells visitors they're about to learn something delicious.
Who should register .cooking?
Recipe bloggers, cookery schools, meal kit services, cooking YouTube channels, and kitchenware retailers.
Why choose .cooking?
- Describes the content perfectly
- Warm and inviting tone
- Stands out from generic food sites
- Pairs naturally with brand or chef names
Who runs .cooking, and since when
Registry data from the .cooking 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
- Registry Services, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 28 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no restrictions on location or industry
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £30.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What a .cooking domain does for recipe sites
Recipe publishing is one of the most crowded categories on the web, and it is worth being honest about where a domain sits in that fight. Nothing about .cooking helps you outrank a national newspaper's food section or a supermarket's recipe hub. Google has said that keywords in an extension give no advantage or disadvantage in search, and the registry's own material implying otherwise should be read as marketing.
What the extension does buy is a name you can actually have. The obvious .com and .co.uk in food went years ago, and a cook or a school with a name worth keeping can usually still get it here.
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited launched it in March 2014 and Registry Services, LLC, part of GoDaddy Registry, has operated it since September 2021. The registry describes registration as global, first come, first served, with no restrictions on location or industry. Seven letters is on the long side for something read out in a video, so say the whole address aloud before you commit to it.
Is .cooking the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.cooking works well if
- You run a cookery school or class programme, and the address describes the service to somebody who has only seen it on a flyer.
- Your name is taken on the obvious extensions, and .cooking gives you the version of it you actually wanted at a sensible length.
- You make video or social content where people hear the address more often than they read it, and the word tells them the subject immediately.
Look elsewhere if
- You need it said aloud constantly. Seven letters after the dot is a long tail on a spoken address, and viewers mistype the end of it.
- Your audience is British and finds you through search. A .co.uk is read by Google as a UK site and costs less every year.
- You are hoping the extension lifts recipe rankings. It does not, and building on that assumption wastes the budget that should go into the content.
Publishing food content for a UK audience? A .co.uk is shorter to say, cheaper to keep and stronger in UK results. See .co.uk pricing.
.cooking vs .online: which should you register?
Both are open, both are affordable, and both exist because the obvious extensions ran out. The difference is that .online says nothing about you while .cooking says exactly one thing, and one thing is more useful than nothing when a stranger sees the address without any surrounding context.
The counterweight is flexibility. A food writer who moves into restaurant reviews, kitchen equipment or travel is stuck with an address that promises recipes, whereas .online never promised anything and so never becomes wrong. Pick .cooking if the subject is settled and the name is worth having. Pick something neutral if the plan is still moving.
.cooking domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .cooking domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNone. The registry states that anyone can register a .cooking domain on a global first come, first served basis with no restrictions on location or industry. There is no qualification to prove, no food business to evidence and no location rule, so a home cook, a cookery school and an equipment retailer all register on identical terms. The only names unavailable are those already taken or held on the registry reserved list.
No. Google Search Central has published that its systems treat new gTLDs like .com and .org, and that keywords in a top-level domain give no advantage or disadvantage in search. Recipe rankings come from the recipes: original photography, tested methods, structured data, and the sites and readers that link to you. Buy the extension because the name reads well, and put the effort into the pages themselves.
It is longer than most, and that matters more than it sounds if people hear your address rather than clicking it. Seven letters after the dot is a lot to dictate at the end of a video or a podcast, and the mistypes tend to land in the extension rather than the name. Read the full domain aloud twice before ordering. If it trips you up, a shorter extension will serve you better.
Included with Your .cooking 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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