.men Domain
A Domain for Men's Brands and Services
Register your .men domain from just £27.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .men domain?
The .men domain targets the men's lifestyle market. Men's fashion brands, grooming products, fitness programmes, and men's health platforms all serve a growing audience that's increasingly engaged online. A .men domain immediately identifies your site's target demographic, filtering for the right audience from the URL.
Who should register .men?
Men's fashion brands, grooming companies, men's health platforms, and fitness programmes targeting men.
Why choose .men?
- Clear demographic targeting
- Growing men's lifestyle market
- Filters for the right audience
- Concise and direct
Who runs .men, and since when
Registry data from the .men 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
- Exclusive Registry Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2015
- Delegated 8 May 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no restriction by gender or sector
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £27.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The company .men keeps, and why it matters
The registry behind .men is Exclusive Registry Limited, a Gibraltar company, and the operating and coordinating functions are handled by Global Registry Services. Its own about page names the family this extension belongs to: .loan, .win, .bid, .stream, .review, .trade, .date, .party, .download, .science, .racing, .accountant, .faith, .webcam and .cricket. Sixteen in total. Read that list before you commit, because your address keeps that company.
It matters in one practical place, which is email. Recipients and filtering systems both make judgements about unfamiliar extensions, and a grooming brand sending order confirmations does not want a conversation about why the receipt went to junk. If you register a .men, send test messages to a Gmail account, an Outlook account and a corporate address before the domain goes anywhere near a customer.
The naming case is still real. The word is short, the audience is obvious, and .com equivalents in men's fashion, grooming and fitness were taken long ago. What you trade for that is recognition, and at nearly three times a .co.uk with a British audience that expects .co.uk, it works better as a second address than as a first one.
Is .men the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.men works well if
- You publish for a male audience and the demographic is the whole proposition, so naming it in the address saves a line of explanation.
- The .com and .co.uk for your grooming or menswear brand are both taken, and the word men produces a shorter address than any variation of them.
- You are running a campaign or a title rather than the trading entity, so the domain is a marketing asset you can retire later.
Look elsewhere if
- Your email deliverability has to be dependable from day one. Test first, and if anything looks marginal, send from a .co.uk instead.
- You sell to UK customers through local search. A .co.uk carries a country signal this does not, and costs a third as much.
- Your range already reaches beyond men. An address that names one audience is an awkward thing to explain to the other half of the market.
Selling to British customers? A .co.uk costs far less, carries the UK signal, and raises no questions in an inbox. See .co.uk pricing.
.men vs .co.uk: which should you register?
For a UK business these are not close. The .co.uk is cheaper, is read by Google as a country signal, is instantly familiar to British customers, and transfers between registrars almost instantly because it is an IPS tag change rather than a full transfer. A .men offers a descriptive word and nothing else.
The one thing .men has going for it is availability of the exact name you want. If that is worth paying for, buy it, but keep the .co.uk as the address on invoices and outbound email and let .men handle the marketing. Splitting them that way costs a few pounds and protects the part of the business where an unfamiliar domain does actual damage.
.men domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .men domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNone at all. Nothing about the extension limits registration by gender, sector or location, and the ICANN registry agreement is a standard non-sponsored one with no community registration policy attached. Women, companies, charities and anyone else can register a .men on a first come, first served basis. The word is descriptive of an intended audience rather than a qualification, and nobody at the registry checks what the site is actually about.
Unfamiliar extensions get a harder look than established ones, from filtering systems and from the humans reading the message. That is not a rule you can look up, and it varies by provider, so treat it as something to test rather than something to assume. Send from the new domain to a Gmail account, an Outlook account and a corporate mailbox before you commit. Set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC properly whatever extension you pick, because authentication does more for deliverability than the domain ending ever will.
Exclusive Registry Limited holds the ICANN registry agreement, signed on 26 February 2015, and is a limited company formed under the Gibraltar Companies Act. The operating and coordinating functions are provided by Global Registry Services Limited, trading as GRS Domains, which runs a portfolio of sixteen extensions including .loan, .win, .bid, .download, .stream, .science and .party. Knowing that portfolio is useful context: an extension is judged partly by the neighbourhood it sits in.
Included with Your .men 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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