.engineering Domain
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What is a .engineering domain?
The .engineering domain is suited to engineering firms, consultancies, and departments that operate at scale. From mechanical and electrical to software and aerospace, .engineering provides a web address that matches the breadth of the discipline.
Who should register .engineering?
Engineering firms, multidisciplinary consultancies, R&D departments, and engineering recruitment agencies.
Why choose .engineering?
- Suits firms of all engineering disciplines
- Conveys technical scale and ambition
- Professional presence for large consultancies
- Strong fit for recruitment and portfolios
Who runs .engineering, and since when
Registry data from the .engineering 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 3 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no proof of engineering qualification required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £52.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .engineering is open when CEng is not
Anyone in the UK may call themselves an engineer, and the Engineering Council decided years ago that policing a word that common was not worth attempting. What it does hold are four protected titles: Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, Engineering Technician and ICT Technician. Only people on its register may use those, and the register is searchable, which is where a client checks you rather than in your address bar.
The .engineering domain sits firmly on the open side of that line. Binky Moon operates it on the Identity Digital platform, it was delegated in April 2014, and there is no qualification test, no institution membership check and no document to supply. Its ICANN agreement does carry three commitments that most extensions skip, written for sectors that touch the public: your registrar must bind you to comply with applicable law, tell you so at the point of sale, and require reasonable security measures if you hold sensitive health or financial data. Modest obligations, but they sit in the contract you accept at checkout.
Where the extension earns its keep is scale. It reads as an organisation rather than as a person, which suits a multidisciplinary consultancy, a civil and structural practice or an in-house design group far better than a lone consultant. If you are one engineer trading under your own name, the singular .engineer costs about two thirds as much and sits more naturally after a surname. Either way the extension evidences nothing. Put the institution, the registration number and the post-nominals on the page, where a client will actually look for them.
Commonplace use of the word engineer in our language has evolved over many centuries. Hence anyone in the UK may describe themselves as an engineer. Seeking to regulate or legislate on the use of a now common term is recognised by the Engineering Council as totally impractical.
What that means if you are buying one
Read that as a warning about what a domain can and cannot do for you. If the regulator has given up on controlling the word itself, an address ending in .engineering proves nothing about competence to a client who knows the sector. The proof is a register entry, a peer-assessed title, and named people with their institutions listed on your team page.
Is .engineering the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.engineering works well if
- You run a multidisciplinary practice with several engineering disciplines under one roof, and no single specialism belongs in the name.
- The .com and .co.uk you wanted belong to an unrelated business with a similar name, and you would rather say what the firm does than add a hyphen.
- You recruit constantly. A careers site on a .engineering address reads as an employer in the sector rather than as another agency listing.
- You want a distinct address for a bid portal, a graduate scheme or a long-running project that sits apart from the main company site.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a sole practising engineer. The singular .engineer costs around a third less and reads better after a personal name.
- Most of your work is won through UK search. A .co.uk carries a United Kingdom signal to Google that .engineering does not, and costs a fraction of it.
- You are hoping the extension implies chartered status. It cannot, and a client who understands the difference will look for the register instead.
Trading as one engineer rather than as a firm? The singular .engineer costs less and reads more naturally after a personal name. See .engineer pricing.
.engineering vs .engineer: which should you register?
Both came out of the same 2014 wave and we sell both, so this is a question about grammar and money rather than about policy. Neither asks for a qualification, neither is restricted, and neither order will be refused.
Take .engineer when the domain is a person: consultants, expert witnesses, contract engineers and anyone whose site is effectively a CV. It is also the cheaper of the two by a clear margin, and that gap repeats every year. Take .engineering when the domain is an organisation with several people and more than one discipline inside it, because the discipline noun stops the address sounding like one individual with a laptop.
Say both out loud with your own name in front. Most people find one is obviously right and the other faintly awkward, and that test is worth more than anything else on this page.
| .engineering | .engineer | |
|---|---|---|
| Reads as | A firm or department | One named person |
| Annual cost | Higher | Around a third less |
| Length after dot | 11 characters | 8 characters |
| Qualification check | None | None |
| Best for | Consultancies and practices | Sole consultants and CV sites |
.engineering domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .engineering domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. There is no eligibility test, no membership requirement and nothing to upload, so anyone anywhere can register one. What you accept at checkout is a registration agreement binding you to comply with applicable law, which in the UK means the Engineering Council titles CEng, IEng, EngTech and ICTTech stay off your site unless the people named actually hold them. The domain is open; those four titles are not.
Choose by whether the site is a business or a person. The plural discipline word reads as an organisation and suits a practice with several specialisms; .engineer reads as an individual and suits a consultant, an expert witness or a personal portfolio. Cost pulls the same way, because .engineer is roughly a third cheaper every year. If you are a limited company with staff, pay the difference. If you are one person, do not.
It is neutral, which in a UK-only market is a mild disadvantage. Google treats .engineering as a generic extension with no country attached, so it sends no United Kingdom signal at all, whereas a .co.uk does. Nothing about the extension holds a site back on its own merits and plenty of firms rank well on one. If your enquiries all come from British searches, the .co.uk is doing something for you that this cannot.
The registry sets the wholesale price, and long descriptive extensions from the 2014 wave were priced well above the country codes. Nothing technical justifies it: the DNS records, the DNSSEC support and the resolution speed are identical. Treat it as an annual line item for the life of the business rather than a one-off, run the ten-year figure, and decide whether the name is worth that against a .co.uk plus a redirect.
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