.tips Domain
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What is a .tips domain?
The .tips domain is ideal for advice sites, how-to blogs, and expert knowledge platforms. Gardening tips, cooking tips, travel tips: the word naturally pairs with nearly any subject. Content creators and niche bloggers find it works particularly well because "tips" is one of the most common words people add to search queries.
Who should register .tips?
Advice bloggers, how-to content creators, niche knowledge sites, and consumer guidance platforms.
Why choose .tips?
- Matches common search query patterns
- Pairs with nearly any subject
- Ideal for advice and how-to content
- Positions you as a helpful resource
Who runs .tips, and since when
Registry data from the .tips 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
- 2013
- Delegated 13 November 2013
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no publisher check and no documents to supply
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £28.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Advice or gratuities: the two markets .tips serves
The word has two jobs. A tip is a piece of advice, and a tip is money left on a table, and .tips gets used for both. The second reading has grown as cash has disappeared: a QR code on a receipt pointing at a short .tips address is a tidy way to route a gratuity to the person who earned it. If you are buying for the advice meaning, know that the other one exists, because a name like table.tips or staff.tips will be read the way the reader expects rather than the way you intended.
For the advice market the extension does something specific. The phrase people search is nearly always a subject followed by the word tips, and this lets the whole phrase live in the address instead of in a folder. That is a naming win. It is not a ranking win: Google publishes its position and says keywords in a top-level domain give no advantage or disadvantage in search, so what you gain is the click and the recall, not the position.
.tips entered the root zone on 13 November 2013, was delegated to Corn Willow, LLC, and moved into Binky Moon with 195 other extensions in March 2018. Registration is open to anybody, with no check on whether the advice is any good. That cuts both ways. It is why the name you want may still be free, and why a reader gives your address no credit at all until the content earns it.
Is .tips the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.tips works well if
- The site is one subject deep, and the title people already use for it is that subject followed by the word tips.
- You are setting up a cashless tipping page for staff and need a short address that fits under a QR code on a receipt.
- The subject .com went years ago and you would rather have two clean words than a hyphen in the middle.
- Somebody has to type it from memory after seeing it once in a video description or on a slide.
Look elsewhere if
- You expect the word in the address to lift you in search results. Google states plainly that a keyword in the extension gives no advantage.
- The advice is one section of a commercial brand. Keeping it in a folder of the main domain points every link at the same place instead of two.
- You want no ambiguity at all. A fair share of readers will assume tips means gratuities, and that may be the half that matters.
Publishing advice as part of a UK business? Put it in a folder of your .co.uk and keep the authority together. See .co.uk pricing.
.tips vs .guide: which should you register?
Both are Binky Moon strings under Identity Digital, both are open to anyone, and both promise help. The difference is the shape of the content. Tips are short, plural and endless: you add another one every week and the site grows sideways. A guide is singular and finished: one long reference that you maintain rather than extend.
Pick the one that matches how you actually publish. A weekly gardening column is a .tips site pretending to be nothing else. A single 8,000-word reference on choosing a boiler is a .guide, and calling it tips undersells the work. Get this wrong and the address quietly contradicts the page for years.
Cost is the tie-breaker where the content could honestly go either way. .tips is the cheaper of the two annually, and neither carries any geographic signal, so a UK publisher aiming at UK readers still wants a .co.uk alongside whichever one they choose.
| .tips | .guide | |
|---|---|---|
| What the site promises | Short, repeatable pointers | One long reference, maintained |
| Second meaning | Gratuities | A person who shows you round |
| Registry | Binky Moon, LLC | Binky Moon, LLC |
| In the root zone since | 2013 | 2014 |
| Annual cost | Lower | Higher |
.tips domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .tips domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyAnyone, anywhere, with no eligibility check of any kind. Identity Digital runs .tips on a first-come, first-served basis and applies no publisher test, no editorial standard and no residency rule. The only barriers are the standard ones: names on the ICANN Specification 5 reserved schedule, names the registry holds back or prices as premium, and names a trademark holder has blocked across the portfolio through DPML.
No. Google has published its position on new generic extensions and states that keywords in a top-level domain give no advantage or disadvantage in search. What matching the query phrase does buy you is attention in the results page, where a reader scanning ten blue links sees exactly what they typed. Treat that as a click-through gain. The ranking still comes from content depth, internal linking, page speed and whether anyone else references you.
Yes, and it is one of the better uses for the extension. A short address on a card or a QR code reads clearly at table height, and there is no registry rule against commercial or payment use. Two practical notes. You will need proper hosting with a valid certificate, which every 365i package includes free, and you should check your payment provider allows the flow you have in mind before you print anything with the address on it.
Rarely, and we would rather flag it now. The word describes a content format, not a company, so it ages badly the moment the business does more than publish advice. It also reads ambiguously on an invoice, where a supplier may take it for a gratuity page. Use it for the publication and keep the company on a .co.uk, then point one at the other. That way the address you print on paperwork never needs a footnote.
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