.gallery Domain
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Register your .gallery domain from just £26.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .gallery domain?
The .gallery domain transforms your web address into a virtual exhibition space. Purpose-built for showcasing visual collections, it suits physical galleries moving online and digital-first exhibition platforms alike.
Who should register .gallery?
Art galleries, exhibition spaces, online portfolio showcases, and photography galleries.
Why choose .gallery?
- Signals a curated experience
- Ideal for visual collections
- Works for physical and digital spaces
- Distinctive and descriptive
Who runs .gallery, and since when
Registry data from the .gallery 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
- 2013
- Delegated 8 November 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone; no gallery, exhibition or trade body membership needed
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £26.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The .gallery domain versus the image gallery problem
There is a wrinkle in the .gallery domain that nobody selling it mentions. On the web, gallery has meant a page of images for about as long as there have been websites, and every content management system ships a gallery template. So an address ending .gallery can read to a visitor as a section rather than a destination: something that belongs after the slash, not after the dot.
It reads correctly when the word in front is unmistakably a name. A surname or a house name in front of the dot reads as an institution. A common noun such as photos or prints in front of the dot reads as a page somebody has moved. If your second-level name is a plain descriptive word, this extension works against you. If it is a proper name, it works for you.
Past that, .gallery is one of the older keyword extensions. Binky Moon signed its contract in September 2013 and it entered the root zone that November, part of the first wave, and it is priced sensibly against the rest of the category.
The other thing to hold on to is that the extension confers nothing at all. Identity Digital's acceptable use policy names this directly: holding yourself out as having a status or authorisation associated with a top-level domain, when no such authorisation exists, is listed as abusive use. Nobody checks that you run a gallery. This is a good address for a gallery that already exists, not a shortcut to being taken for one.
Is .gallery the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.gallery works well if
- You run a physical gallery and the name in front of the dot is the gallery name, so the address reads as a place.
- You are a dealer or a curator whose .com went to an unrelated business years ago.
- You want a separate address for an exhibition programme that sits apart from your main site.
- The address has to work on a printed invitation without a strapline underneath explaining what it is.
Look elsewhere if
- Your second-level name is a common noun. The address will read as a page inside a bigger site rather than the site itself.
- You are a photographer building a portfolio. .gallery describes a room, and the people looking for you are typing something else.
- You want the extension to signal that somebody has vetted you. Registration is open and the registry says so plainly.
Showing your own work rather than other people's? A .art keeps the artist meaning that .gallery gives away to the room. See .art pricing.
.gallery vs .art: which should you register?
These two get shortlisted together and they are not interchangeable. .gallery describes the place where work is shown. .art describes the work. That difference decides it more often than price, and the prices sit within a pound or two of each other anyway.
Pick .gallery if you represent other people: a dealer, a curated space, a programme of exhibitions. Pick .art if the work is yours, or if the organisation is broader than one room.
| .gallery | .art | |
|---|---|---|
| What it describes | The space | The work |
| In the root zone since | 2013 | 2016 |
| Registry | Binky Moon, Identity Digital | UK Creative Ideas, London |
| Annual cost | Slightly higher | Slightly lower |
| Ambiguity risk | Can read as a page type | Reads as a subject |
.gallery domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .gallery domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. There is no eligibility test, no trade body membership and no proof of an exhibition space. Binky Moon runs the extension under Identity Digital and the only real constraint is the acceptable use policy, which among other things treats claiming a status or authorisation you do not hold as abusive use. The extension describes an intention, not a credential.
Rarely the best choice. Gallery describes a room where work is shown by somebody who represents artists, and a photographer selling shoots is offering a service instead. .photography names the profession, .photos names the collection, and either reads more accurately to a client. Take .gallery if you curate other people's work or run an actual exhibition space.
It depends on whose work is on the walls, and the prices are close enough that cost will not decide it. .gallery suits dealers, curated spaces and exhibition programmes, where the address names a venue. .art suits individual artists, collectives and broader cultural organisations, where the address names a subject. Both are open to anybody, so neither carries more authority than the other.
Some will, and it is the main risk with this extension. Gallery has meant a page of images since the earliest websites, so an address built on a descriptive noun can read like a section of a larger site. A distinctive proper name in front of the dot removes the problem almost entirely. Write the full address down and show it to somebody outside the trade before you commit.
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