.food Domain
A Domain That Speaks the Universal Language
Register your .food domain from just £32.00/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .food domain?
The .food domain is the broadest food-industry extension on the internet, covering everything from artisan producers and meal-kit subscriptions to recipe blogs, food magazines, and grocery delivery brands. Where .restaurant or .cafe pin you to a single category, .food gives you room to grow across the whole sector. It works just as well for a small Cornish chocolatier as it does for a national supermarket's food blog. Four letters, instantly understood in any market.
Who should register .food?
Artisan food producers, recipe sites, meal-kit companies, food magazines, grocery brands, and culinary content creators.
Why choose .food?
- Covers the entire food industry, not just one niche
- Short and globally understood
- Pairs naturally with brand and product names
- Strong fit for both producers and publishers
Who runs .food, and since when
Registry data from the .food 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
- Internet Naming Co.
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2016
- Delegated 4 November 2016
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no eligibility check and no local presence rule
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £32.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .food spent years closed before opening up
ICANN signed the .food registry agreement on 21 April 2016, and the company on the other side of it was Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation. ICANN's record for that agreement still lists a Specification 13 amendment, which is the document designating a .brand extension: one company, its own names, nobody else invited. That is how an obvious four-letter word for the largest consumer category on earth sat unused while .restaurant and .cafe were filling up.
It changed hands. Internet Naming Co. runs it now, and its published registry policies describe general availability as perpetual open registration for all registrants, first come first served. No trade licence, no proof you sell food, no country test.
What that history buys you today is availability. A category this broad would normally have been picked clean in its first year, and .food skipped that year entirely. Against that, it carries less recognition than a 2014 extension that has been on sale the whole time, so you will spend more of your life explaining it. Register it because the name you want is free, not because buyers already know the ending.
Is .food the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.food works well if
- You make or sell food and the .co.uk you wanted went a decade ago. Availability is the real argument here, not recognition.
- You are naming a product line, a campaign or a launch rather than the parent company, so the address only has to work for that one thing.
- Your trading name ends in a word that pairs with the ending, so the whole address reads as a phrase rather than a name with a suffix bolted on.
Look elsewhere if
- You sell to UK shoppers who search locally. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that .food cannot match, and costs a fraction of the price.
- You take orders over the phone. "Dot food" gets typed as .com by people who have never met a domain ending that is a whole English word.
- You are watching the annual spend. At the price on this page it is several times a .co.uk, every year, for as long as the business exists.
Selling mainly to British shoppers? The .co.uk will do more for local search and cost far less each year. See .co.uk pricing.
.food vs .shop: which should you register?
Both are open, both arrived in the 2010s, and both describe what is on the other side of the address rather than who owns it. The split is what you want the ending to claim. .shop says you sell things. .food says what the things are and says nothing about selling them, which suits a producer, a magazine or a recipe site as readily as a retailer.
If you are running a checkout, .shop is the clearer promise and shoppers meet it more often. If the site is about the food rather than the transaction, .food is the honest label. Neither moves you up Google on its own, so pick the one that survives being read out loud in your market.
.food domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .food domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Internet Naming Co. runs .food as open general availability, first come first served, with no eligibility test and no documents to supply. Its published registry policies describe general availability as perpetual open registration for all registrants. The registry does expect the name and its use to comply with applicable law, so for a food business the usual labelling and consumer protection rules apply to the site whatever the address ends in.
Because the extension spent its early life closed. ICANN's registry agreement for .food dates from April 2016 and its amendment record includes a Specification 13, the document that designates a single-company .brand extension. It later changed hands to Internet Naming Co. and opened to everyone. Endings that launched openly in 2014 had their best names gone within months. .food skipped that rush, so a two-word name long gone in .com is often still sitting there.
For UK search, yes, and the reason is geography rather than quality. Google treats a country-code extension such as .co.uk as a signal that a site is aimed at that country. .food is a generic extension and carries no country signal at all, so it starts level with .com and behind .co.uk for a British audience. The extension is a small factor next to content and links, but if your customers are all in Britain the .co.uk is the better buy.
Included with Your .food Domain
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
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