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What is a .show domain?
The .show domain bridges entertainment and events. Podcast hosts, TV show fan sites, trade show organisers, and live event promoters all find a home here. It's versatile: "show" works in the context of a comedy show, a dog show, a trade show, or a TV show. That breadth is its selling point.
Who should register .show?
Podcast hosts, trade show organisers, TV fan sites, live event promoters, and entertainment venues.
Why choose .show?
- Versatile across entertainment and events
- Works for podcasts, TV, and live events
- Short and energetic
- Pairs well with show names and brands
Who runs .show, and since when
Registry data from the .show 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
- 2015
- Delegated 9 April 2015
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no broadcaster, venue or promoter verification
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £31.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .show fits a title better than a company
Show is a verb as well as a noun, and testing that is the first job with any name here. Read yourname.show aloud. If the left-hand side is a person's name, the address can land as an instruction rather than a title, which is either a decent joke or a distraction depending on the brand. Titles do not have the problem at all: a programme, a podcast, a tour or an exhibition sits in front of the dot and reads exactly as intended.
Breadth is the other thing to weigh. The word covers a comedy show, a trade show, a dog show and a television show, which is why decent names are still available across every one of them. What breadth does not give you is a category signal. A search engine learns nothing about your subject from the extension, so every word to the left of the dot has to carry that weight on its own.
It arrived later than most of this group. IANA delegated .show to Snow Beach, LLC on 14 April 2015, another of the single-string companies Donuts set up for its 2012 applications, and folded it into Binky Moon, LLC in the March 2018 transfer of 196 extensions. Registration is open, with no test of whether you produce, promote or host anything at all.
For a UK venue or promoter selling tickets, we would still register the .co.uk as the main address and run the .show for the production itself. Ticket buyers type what they expect, and in Britain that remains .co.uk.
Is .show the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.show works well if
- You are naming a programme, a podcast or a tour, and the title reads naturally with the extension completing it.
- You organise a trade show or an exhibition and want an address that says what the event is without spelling out the word twice.
- The name is short and the .com went years ago, so a five-letter extension keeps the whole address inside a poster headline.
- You need a separate address per production and want them to look like a set rather than a pile of unrelated domains.
Look elsewhere if
- The left-hand side is a personal or company name, in which case the address can read as an instruction rather than a title.
- You want the extension to help you rank for event searches. It carries no category meaning to Google, so your page copy does all of it.
- Price: over three times a .co.uk each year, which is hard to justify for a one-off event that will be over in a weekend.
Running a series of events rather than one production? A .events reads more naturally across a whole programme. See .events pricing.
.show vs .events: which should you register?
Same registry family, both Binky Moon under Identity Digital, and the same total absence of eligibility rules. What differs is what the word promises a visitor.
.show is singular and it is a thing you watch. One production, one programme, one exhibition, with a beginning and an end. .events is plural and it is a diary. It suits a venue, an organiser or a company that runs many things across a year and wants one address for all of them.
Get that the wrong way round and the address quietly works against you. A festival with forty acts on a .show reads like one act. A single touring production on a .events reads like an agency. The extension is the last word of the name, so it should be the true one.
| .show | .events | |
|---|---|---|
| Number it implies | One production | A programme of many |
| Best for | Titles, podcasts, tours | Venues, organisers, diaries |
| Reads as a verb | Yes, test it aloud | No |
| In the root zone since | 2015 | 2014 |
| Annual cost | Lower than .events | Higher than .show |
.show domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .show domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYes. There is no broadcaster licence, venue registration or promoter verification of any kind. The ICANN registry agreement commits Binky Moon to keeping second level registrations open to lawful registrants and to not limiting eligibility based on identity. Identity Digital's acceptable use policy governs what happens next, and it deals with phishing, malware, spam and trademark infringement rather than with what you put on the stage.
It works well when the podcast has a title rather than a personal name. Something like thelongread.show reads as the programme; janesmith.show reads as an instruction to Jane. Say the whole address out loud before you buy, because a podcast address gets read aloud far more often than it gets typed. If your show name is already taken here, .fm is the other extension podcast audiences recognise, though it costs a good deal more.
No. Google takes no subject meaning from a generic extension, so the word show in your domain gives you no advantage for event queries. Worse for a UK organiser, a generic extension carries no geographic signal either, while a .co.uk does in Google UK results. If local search is where your ticket sales come from, register the .co.uk as the main site and treat the .show as the memorable address for posters and social profiles.
Anywhere from a few hours to seven days, which is normal for a generic extension. You will need the authorisation code from your current registrar, the domain unlocked and out of its first 60 days. Only .uk domains move near instantly, because those are an IPS tag change rather than a full transfer. Whatever remains on your registration carries over and the transfer adds a year, so nothing is lost by moving mid-term.
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