.engineer Domain
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What is a .engineer domain?
The .engineer extension is crafted for individual engineers and small engineering consultancies who want a domain that reflects their professional standing. Whether you're a chartered engineer or freelance consultant, .engineer communicates technical competence.
Who should register .engineer?
Chartered engineers, structural engineers, freelance engineering consultants, and technical specialists.
Why choose .engineer?
- Reflects professional standing and skill
- Ideal for individual engineer portfolios
- Communicates technical competence
- Distinguished from generic business domains
Who runs .engineer, and since when
Registry data from the .engineer 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
- Dog Beach, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 29 May 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide; no engineering qualification or registration is checked
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £34.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Engineer is open, Chartered Engineer is protected
In Britain the word engineer is not protected. Anyone can use it, which is why the person who services your boiler and the person who designs a bridge share a job title. What is protected are the titles held on the national register maintained by the Engineering Council: Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer and Engineering Technician, which the Council describes as legally protected titles awarded after independent assessment through a licensed professional engineering institution.
.engineer follows the looser word, and the registry has committed to keeping it that way. Specification 11 of its ICANN agreement contains an explicit open registration commitment: the operator undertakes to run an open extension where no restrictions are placed on a registrant's eligibility to register an address for lawful purposes. There is no qualification check and no professional body behind it.
That combination sets the rule for your copy. The domain says nothing about competence, so the claims on the page have to carry their own weight. Putting CEng after your name when you are not on the register is the problem, not the extension. Used honestly, yoursurname.engineer reads well for an individual consultant and beats a padded .co.uk that had to add the word limited to be free.
Is .engineer the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.engineer works well if
- You are an individual consultant and the singular word fits: yoursurname.engineer works where a plural or a company suffix would read oddly.
- You want a memorable address for a personal CV site, a portfolio of projects or a technical blog that follows you between employers.
- The obvious .co.uk needs a hyphen or an added word to be free, and the extension lets you drop both.
Look elsewhere if
- You run a practice with several engineers. The singular reads as one person, and .engineering fits a firm better even though it costs more.
- You are bidding for UK public sector or construction work. Procurement teams read a .co.uk as established and an unfamiliar extension as a question to ask.
- You expect the extension to imply chartered status. It cannot, and if your copy implies it while the Engineering Council register does not list you, that is a real exposure.
Naming a practice rather than a person? .engineering reads as a firm and avoids the singular problem. See .engineering pricing.
.engineer vs .engineering: which should you register?
One names a person, the other names a discipline, and that grammatical difference decides most of these. A sole consultant is an engineer, so yoursurname.engineer scans naturally. A practice does engineering, so yourfirm.engineering scans naturally. Getting it the wrong way round produces an address that reads slightly off without anyone being able to say why.
The trade off is money: .engineering costs noticeably more per year. For a one person consultancy that difference is worth avoiding, and the singular is the better fit anyway. For a firm with staff and a tender pipeline, the plural form is worth the extra and the .co.uk should sit alongside it either way.
.engineer domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .engineer domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The registry agreement with ICANN contains an explicit commitment to open registration, undertaking that no restrictions will be placed on a registrant's eligibility to register an address for lawful purposes. Nothing is verified, no institution is consulted and no certificate is uploaded. The extension describes a subject rather than certifying a person, which is worth knowing both as a buyer and as somebody reading a competitor's address.
Only if you are on the register. Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer and Engineering Technician are legally protected titles held on the national register maintained by the Engineering Council and awarded after assessment through a licensed professional engineering institution. The domain extension gives you no claim to any of them. The word engineer on its own is not protected in the UK, which is exactly why the protected titles matter and why misusing one is treated seriously.
It is neutral. Google treats .engineer as a generic extension with no geographic meaning, so it gives no lift in UK results the way a .co.uk does, and having the keyword after the dot is not a ranking factor in itself. What it does buy is a shorter, cleaner name that people remember and click on, and click behaviour on a well written result is worth more than any extension. If your customers are UK based, keep a .co.uk in the mix.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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