.gripe Domain
Make Your Voice Heard
Register your .gripe domain from just £29.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .gripe domain?
The .gripe domain is for complaint sites, consumer advocacy platforms, and feedback portals where people share honest opinions about products and services. It's blunt, and that's the appeal. Review platforms and customer grievance forums use it to signal that sugar-coating isn't on the menu.
Who should register .gripe?
Consumer complaint platforms, review sites, customer feedback portals, and advocacy forums.
Why choose .gripe?
- Blunt and honest tone
- Ideal for complaint and review sites
- Low competition for names
- Sets expectations about the content
Who runs .gripe, and since when
Registry data from the .gripe 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, subject to the registry acceptable use policy
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £29.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The line between a .gripe site and harassment
A .gripe domain gets bought for one of two reasons and they need separating. The first is a feedback channel you run yourself: an open complaints board, a grievance service in a sector nobody else covers, a page where customers can say what went wrong without being routed through a form. That's uncontroversial, and the extension does the explaining so your strapline doesn't have to.
The second is putting somebody else in front of it, and there the ground is less friendly than it looks. Identity Digital operates .gripe through Binky Moon, and its acceptable use policy names cyber-bullying, harassment and other forms of abuse to individuals or groups as grounds for suspending, cancelling or locking a domain. Criticising a company for its conduct is not harassment. A site built around one named private individual is where complaints get traction, and the registry can act without waiting for a court.
The UDRP applies as well, and Identity Digital sells a Domains Protected Marks List block that lets a trademark holder reserve a matching label across its entire portfolio in a single purchase. Check availability before you plan a campaign around a particular name.
Is .gripe the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.gripe works well if
- You are running the complaints channel yourself and want a URL that explains its purpose without a paragraph of introduction.
- You collect consumer grievances in a sector with no obvious watchdog, and the word gripe sets the expectation accurately.
- You want a short single-word name that has not been available in .com since the early 2000s, which is what a 2014 extension actually buys you.
Look elsewhere if
- The target is a named private individual rather than an organisation. The registry acceptable use policy covers harassment and can take the domain down.
- The name you want is somebody else's trademark. It may already be blocked across the Identity Digital portfolio, and if it does register, the UDRP is still open to them.
- You want the site read as even-handed. The word delivers a verdict, which suits a campaign and undermines a review platform.
Building a review platform rather than a complaints board? A .review reads neutral and costs a little less. See .review pricing.
.gripe vs .review: which should you register?
The words do different jobs. A .review promises an assessment and leaves the verdict open, which is what you want if the site will carry positive entries alongside negative ones. A .gripe promises a complaint, and a visitor lands already expecting one.
For a business collecting customer feedback, .review is the safer choice and slightly cheaper to keep. For a campaign with a settled position, .gripe says in five letters what a strapline would need a sentence for. Nothing stops you registering both and pointing one at the other, which is what we would do if the campaign has a shelf life.
.gripe domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .gripe domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYou can register it; keeping it is the harder part. The domain is subject to the UDRP like every generic extension, so a trademark holder can file a complaint arguing the name is confusingly similar to their mark and was registered in bad faith. Criticism can amount to a legitimate interest, but that is a case you have to argue and win. Identity Digital also sells a Domains Protected Marks List block, so many well-known brands are already reserved across its extensions and will not register at all.
Not for disagreeing, but the acceptable use policy is broader than most people expect. Identity Digital reserves the right to deny, suspend, cancel, redirect or lock a domain where the use is abusive, and its published list of abusive uses includes cyber-bullying, harassment and other forms of abuse to individuals or groups, alongside malware, phishing and spam. A site criticising a company for its conduct is ordinary use. A site built around one named person is the one that draws complaints.
Only if the word is doing work a subdomain could not. A .gripe costs around three times a .co.uk every year, for as long as the site exists, and complaints.yourfirm.co.uk carries the same meaning at no extra cost while keeping your brand in front of the reader. The case for buying it is when the complaints site is the product rather than a section of another site, or when the exact word you want is available here and nowhere else.
Included with Your .gripe 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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