.maison Domain
French Elegance for Property Brands
Register your .maison domain from just £52.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .maison domain?
"Maison" is French for "house", but it carries a sense of refinement that the English word doesn't quite capture. French property agents, luxury home builders, and interior design studios targeting the French market get a domain that feels elevated. UK businesses selling property in France, or French-inspired home brands, find .maison adds a touch of class to their web address.
Who should register .maison?
French estate agents, luxury home builders, interior designers, and UK property firms selling in France.
Why choose .maison?
- Carries French elegance and refinement
- Ideal for luxury property brands
- Resonates with French-speaking markets
- Adds sophistication to the address
Who runs .maison, and since when
Registry data from the .maison 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 6 February 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no French connection or trade credential needed
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £52.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What maison means beyond houses, and who buys it
In French, maison covers more ground than the English house. It is a dwelling, it is a household, and it is the word French uses for an established firm: a maison de couture, a maison de champagne. That second meaning is why the extension gets bought by people who are not selling property at all.
Binky Moon runs it, it entered the root zone in February 2014, and registration is open to anybody with nothing to demonstrate. The buyers who make sense of it fall into two camps. There are French and Belgian agents, architects and builders using the literal meaning. Then there are interiors, homeware, fragrance and fashion brands using the connotation, where the address is meant to sound like a house in the couture sense.
Be careful about the money. At around five times a .co.uk each year, .maison is one of the dearer names we sell, and there is nothing technical behind the difference. Be careful about the spelling too. English speakers hear mason, and a good number will type it that way. If a French audience is the target, remember they reach for .fr first, so this is a brand decision rather than a search one.
Is .maison the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.maison works well if
- You are an interiors, homeware or fragrance brand and want an address that reads as a house in the couture sense, not the housing sense.
- You sell or build property in France or Wallonia and your customers read French before they read anything else.
- Your brand is a single word that gains from the pairing, so the domain becomes the whole name rather than a name with a category bolted on.
Look elsewhere if
- Most English speakers will hear mason and type it. That is a spelling correction on every phone call, every advert and every business card.
- At roughly five times a .co.uk each year it is one of the more expensive extensions we sell, with nothing technical to show for it.
- It tells Google nothing about France. A country-code extension carries a geographic signal; a generic one like this does not, in either direction.
Selling houses in English to English speakers? A .house costs less and needs no translating. See .house pricing.
.maison vs .house: which should you register?
Same object, different register. .house is plain English and self-explanatory to anyone who reads the address; .maison is French and asks the reader to bring something with them. For an estate agent, a builder or a lettings business selling to British customers, the plain word wins on every practical measure and costs noticeably less each year.
.maison earns its premium only where the connotation is the product: a design studio, a small luxury label, a French-market property brand. If you find yourself explaining the address rather than the business, that is the answer. Take the .house, or take the .co.uk, and keep the French for the copy.
.maison domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .maison domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The registry places no restriction on nationality, residency or trade, so anyone anywhere can register one. In practice the buyers split between French-language property businesses using the literal meaning and design, homeware and fashion brands using the sense of an established house. A British interiors studio has as much claim to it as a Paris agency. What you cannot do is expect it to signal France to a search engine, because it does not.
Some will not, and that is the main practical cost of this extension. The nearest English word is mason, and the pairing of a silent i and an unfamiliar ending means mishearings are common when the address is read out. Test it before you commit: say the full address to somebody who has not seen it written and ask them to type it. If the answer comes back wrong more than occasionally, register the obvious misspelling too and redirect it.
The registry charges more, and that is the whole of it. DNS resolution, DNSSEC support, record types and hosting behaviour are identical on every extension, so nothing about a .maison is technically superior to a .co.uk. You are paying for the word. The figure on this page is annual and recurs for as long as you keep the name, so multiply it by the number of years you expect the business to run before deciding.
Included with Your .maison Domain
DNS Management
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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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