.photo Domain
A Sharper Address for Photographers
Register your .photo domain from just £29.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .photo domain?
The .photo domain offers photographers a concise, modern web address that puts their craft front and centre. Shorter than alternatives, it's quick to type and easy to share on business cards and social media.
Who should register .photo?
Photographers, photo editors, stock photography services, and photo booth hire companies.
Why choose .photo?
- Short and easy to share
- Clean branding for creatives
- Works across all photography niches
- Modern and professional
Who runs .photo, and since when
Registry data from the .photo 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
- Registry Services, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 16 January 2014
- Who can register
- Anyone worldwide, first come first served, with no restrictions
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £29.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Choosing between .photo, .photos and .photography
The real decision on this page is not whether to buy a photography extension. It is which of four to buy, because .photo, .photos, .photography and .pictures all exist, all resolve, and all cost different amounts. We sell every one of them, and the prices are not in the order you would guess.
Length is the honest tiebreaker. Five letters after the dot is shorter to say, shorter to type on a phone and shorter on a business card than eleven. The plural .photos reads better when the site is a collection rather than a service, and .photography reads better on a wedding or commercial photographer's invoice, where the longer word sounds like a trade rather than a file. Say all four out loud with your own name in front. One of them will sound wrong immediately.
The registry answers the eligibility question directly: anyone can register a .photo worldwide on a first come, first served basis, without restrictions. GoDaddy Registry has run it since June 2022, having taken it over from Uniregistry, which launched it in January 2014.
Is .photo the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.photo works well if
- Your name is long already, so five letters after the dot keeps the whole address short enough to read off a card.
- You want an address that names the craft without spelling out a trade, which suits an artist or a stock library better than .photography does.
- You are building a portfolio site that lives alongside social profiles, and the address needs to survive being typed on a phone screen.
Look elsewhere if
- Your enquiries come from local searches for a wedding or event photographer. A .co.uk carries a UK signal that no generic extension does.
- Clients will keep typing .photos or .photography by mistake. If that matters, you are buying two or three domains, not one.
- You expect the word photo in the address to bring in search traffic on its own. It does not work that way and never has.
Booking weddings and events across a UK county? The .co.uk earns its place first and costs a third as much. See .co.uk pricing.
.photo vs .photography: which should you register?
Same idea, different register. The short one sounds like a label on a body of work; the long one sounds like a business you invoice. Neither is better, and Google has no preference between them, so this is a decision about how the address reads to a client rather than a technical one.
The practical split we see is that portrait, wedding and commercial photographers who send quotes tend to be happier with .photography, because the word matches what is written on the invoice. Artists, stock libraries and anyone whose address gets typed on a phone tend to prefer .photo for its length. If the name in front of the dot is already long, take the short one. If clients will confuse the two, hold both and redirect, because the pair still costs less than most single-page marketing spends.
.photo domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .photo domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNothing technical, and quite a lot in how each reads. All three resolve identically, cost different amounts, and are run by different registries: .photo by GoDaddy Registry, and .photos and .photography by Binky Moon. The singular suits a brand or an individual, the plural suits a collection or a gallery, and the long form reads as a trade or service. Choose on how the whole address sounds when you say it, then check whether the mistyped versions are available before you commit to one.
None. The registry states that anyone can register a .photo domain worldwide on a first come, first served basis without restrictions, so there is no professional body, portfolio or trading history to evidence. That makes it quick to buy and also means the extension proves nothing about the photographer behind it. Everything a prospective client believes about you still has to come from the work on the page, the pricing and the contact details, exactly as it would on any other extension.
Some will, and the plural is a real extension rather than an error page, so a mistyped address can land on a stranger's site rather than nowhere. That is the strongest argument for buying the near variants alongside the one you use, particularly if your address is printed on stationery or read out at events. If budget only stretches to one, the mitigation is to make the name in front of the dot distinctive enough that a wrong ending still fails obviously rather than quietly.
Included with Your .photo 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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