.surgery Domain
A Precise Domain for Medical Specialists
Register your .surgery domain from just £45.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
This domain has registration restrictions
Anyone may register a .surgery, including people with no clinical registration whatsoever, so the word carries no authority on its own. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .surgery domain?
The .surgery domain is uniquely suited to surgeons, surgical practices, and cosmetic surgery clinics. In the UK, it also carries a familiar association with GP surgeries and dental surgeries, giving it a dual relevance that few other medical TLDs offer.
Who should register .surgery?
Surgeons, cosmetic surgery clinics, GP surgeries, and specialist surgical practices.
Why choose .surgery?
- Dual relevance in the UK medical context
- Uniquely suited to surgical specialists
- Familiar to British patients
- Professional and authoritative tone
Who runs .surgery, and since when
Registry data from the .surgery 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 17 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, with no medical, dental or surgical registration required
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £45.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .surgery means two different things in Britain
In Britain a surgery is a room, not an operation. It is where the GP sees you, where the dentist works, and where an MP hears constituents on a Friday afternoon. In American English the same word means the procedure itself. One extension, two readings, and which one a visitor applies depends on where they grew up.
That split decides most of this. For a British practice the word does useful work: elmroad.surgery reads as somewhere a patient books an appointment, and it needs no explanation to anyone raised here. For a cosmetic or orthopaedic clinic selling to patients abroad, the same word reads as the operation, which may be exactly the tone you want or a good deal more clinical than the brand intends. Read your own name in front of it and decide which audience you are writing for.
Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital, operates the extension and checks nothing. There is no GMC number to give, no dental registration, no practice code. What sits behind the sale is the registry agreement, which for this string carries the safeguards ICANN attached to strings touching regulated sectors: registrars must bind registrants to comply with applicable law including consumer protection law on misleading and deceptive conduct, must tell them so at the time of registration, and must require anyone collecting sensitive health data to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures.
The serious constraint in England is elsewhere. Section 10 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 makes carrying on a regulated activity without Care Quality Commission registration an offence, and no domain moves that an inch. Buy the .surgery because the word matches how your patients speak, not because it looks official.
Who is allowed to register .surgery?
Anyone may register a .surgery, including people with no clinical registration whatsoever, so the word carries no authority on its own.
- No clinical check
- Binky Moon, LLC asks for no GMC, GDC or Care Quality Commission reference and no evidence of practice. A .surgery registration says nothing at all about the person holding it.
- Regulated-sector terms in the agreement
- Because .surgery was treated as touching a regulated sector, its ICANN agreement requires registrars to bind registrants to comply with applicable law, including consumer protection law in relation to misleading and deceptive conduct, and to notify them of that requirement at the time of registration.
- A security duty on patient data
- The same agreement requires a term obliging registrants who collect and maintain sensitive health and financial data to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures commensurate with the offering of those services. For a UK practice that sits alongside your UK GDPR duties, not in place of them.
- Implying a status you do not hold
- Identity Digital prohibits holding oneself out as having a status, credential or authorisation associated with a TLD when it does not exist, and may deny, suspend, cancel, redirect or transfer a registration at its sole discretion. Separately, under section 10 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 it is an offence in England to carry on a regulated activity without registering with the Care Quality Commission.
Rules taken from the ICANN registry agreement for .surgery. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .surgery the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.surgery works well if
- You are a British GP, dental or veterinary practice and your patients already call the place the surgery, so the address matches the spoken habit.
- The practice is named after its street or village, which makes elmroad.surgery or hillside.surgery read exactly the way patients say it out loud.
- You want something short enough to print on an appointment card and read down a telephone without spelling every letter.
- You are a surgeon with an international private list, and the American reading of the word is the one you actually want.
Look elsewhere if
- Your audience is mainly outside the UK and you do not perform operations. They will hear the procedure, not the room, and a dental practice will confuse them.
- You are a single UK practice on a modest budget. A .co.uk costs a fraction of this each year and carries the UK signal in Google that .surgery does not.
- You expect the word to reassure patients that you are regulated. Nobody checks, so it does not, and a patient who knows that will look at the page content instead.
One UK practice watching the budget? The .co.uk does more in local search and costs a fraction of this. See .co.uk pricing.
.surgery vs .co.uk: which should you register?
For a GP or dental practice this comes down to whether the word justifies the annual difference. Google reads a .co.uk as a UK site, it costs a fraction as much, and it moves between registrars almost instantly because the change is only an IPS tag. A .surgery does none of that. What it gives you is a word your patients already use for the building.
Availability is what usually forces the decision. Street names and village names went on .co.uk a very long time ago, and the padded alternatives are worse than they look: elmroadsurgerypractice.co.uk is four words nobody will spell correctly on a phone. The same short name is often free on .surgery.
Practices that can afford both should take both and point one at the other, so the memorable address is on the appointment card and the searchable one is in the index. It removes the argument entirely.
| .surgery | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic signal in Google | None | United Kingdom |
| How a British patient reads it | The place you book into | A UK business, nothing more |
| Clinical or eligibility check | None | None |
| Transfer time | A few days | Near instant, IPS tag STACK |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals |
.surgery domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .surgery domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYes, and it is the clearest use of the extension anywhere in Britain. There is no eligibility check of any kind: no GMC number, no Care Quality Commission reference, no practice code. The flip side is that the domain proves nothing to a patient, so the reassurance has to come from the page instead. Name your clinicians with their registration numbers, publish the practice address, and say which regulator you are registered with.
Not in British English. Here a surgery is the room and the appointment, which is why the country is full of GP surgeries, dental surgeries and MPs holding constituency surgeries. In American English the word means the procedure. If a meaningful share of your visitors sit outside the UK, expect them to take the American reading, and check that the one you get is the one you wanted.
It carries no more authority than any other ending, because nobody checks who registers one. Binky Moon, LLC sells it to anyone who orders. The registry agreement does bind registrants to consumer protection law and to securing sensitive health data, and Identity Digital can suspend a name used to claim a credential the holder has not got, but none of that is verified before the sale. Treat the extension as branding and put the trust signals on the page.
The same as it costs to register, every year, and that is several times a .co.uk. Domains are one of the few business costs that never end, so the honest comparison is over ten years rather than one. A practice expecting to keep its name for a working lifetime should price it that way. Transferring to us does not reset anything either: your remaining time carries over and a year is added on top.
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