.work Domain
Where Work Gets Done
Register your .work domain from just £13.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .work domain?
The .work domain is a short, sharp extension for coworking spaces, job boards, freelance platforms, and productivity tool makers. It's the singular form of .works, and its brevity makes it ideal for mobile-first branding and social media bios. Four letters that say everything about purpose and productivity.
Who should register .work?
Coworking spaces, job boards, freelance platforms, and productivity software companies.
Why choose .work?
- Four letters, maximum clarity
- Perfect for coworking and job sites
- Mobile-friendly brevity
- Strong productivity association
Who runs .work, and since when
Registry data from the .work 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 18 August 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no employment, trade or residency requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £13.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What .work costs, and how it differs from .works
Price is the first thing worth knowing. Most of the 2014 extensions sit at two, three or four times a .co.uk. A .work domain sits a few pounds above one, which changes the decision completely: it stops being a question of whether the extension is worth a premium and becomes a question of whether you like the word.
Registry Services, LLC runs it from Tempe, Arizona, trading as GoDaddy Registry, and IANA records the delegation on 18 August 2014. That matters more than it sounds, because .works is a separate extension run by an entirely different company, Binky Moon in the Identity Digital group. Same idea, different registry, different price, different renewal terms and a different abuse contact. People buy the wrong one of the pair regularly, so decide which you want before you search rather than after.
The naming case is strong in one narrow band: recruitment, coworking and anything about employment, where the .com equivalents were exhausted well before 2014. Put a company name in front of it and the extension supplies the category without a strapline.
The counterweight is that work describes a field rather than a service, so on its own it tells a visitor very little about what you do. It also has a habit of disappearing into a sentence when spoken. Say "we are at acme dot work" on a call and a fair number of people will hear it as part of the sentence rather than as the address, so you end up spelling it. Neither point is a reason to avoid it. Both are reasons to test the address on a real person before it goes on anything printed.
Is .work the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.work works well if
- You run a job board, a recruitment agency or a coworking space, and the word does the categorising a strapline would otherwise have to.
- The annual price sits close to a .co.uk, so holding it alongside your main address is a small cost rather than a decision.
- You want a one-syllable suffix that fits in a social media bio, on a lanyard or across the back of a business card.
- Your brand name and the extension form a phrase together, so the dot does part of the naming for you.
Look elsewhere if
- Your customers are UK employers searching locally. A .work carries no country signal, so the .co.uk is still doing a job it cannot.
- Spoken aloud it can vanish into the sentence around it. If you take enquiries by phone, expect to spell it every time.
- The word names a category rather than a service, so somebody who has only seen the address knows almost nothing about you.
Recruiting mainly in the UK? Register the .co.uk first and keep the .work as the short one you say out loud. See .co.uk pricing.
.work vs .co.uk: which should you register?
This is the comparison that actually decides it, because the usual objection to a new extension is cost and here the gap is small. A .work is a few pounds a year more than a .co.uk rather than three or four times it.
What the .co.uk still wins on is everything to do with being British. Google reads it as a UK geographic signal, transfers move on an IPS tag change rather than an authorisation code, and Nominet does not publish a UK individual registrant name and address by default, so privacy costs nothing. On a .work, privacy is a paid add-on and a transfer takes days rather than minutes.
What the .work wins on is the word itself, and only that. If your business is about employment and the address reads better with it, buy it. Just do not buy it expecting it to replace what a .co.uk does for a UK audience.
| .work | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Registry | Registry Services, LLC (GoDaddy Registry) | Nominet |
| Geographic signal | None | United Kingdom |
| Annual cost here | A few pounds above a .co.uk | Our lowest price band |
| Transfer speed | Hours to days | Near instant, by IPS tag |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals |
.work domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .work domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyDifferent registries run them. IANA records .work as delegated to Registry Services, LLC, which trades as GoDaddy Registry, while .works belongs to Binky Moon, LLC in the Identity Digital group. They are not singular and plural versions of one product: the prices differ, the renewal terms differ, and the policy and abuse contacts are separate organisations. Decide which of the two you want before you start searching, because the names available under each are unrelated.
Anyone, anywhere. There is no requirement to be an employer, a recruiter or a business of any kind, no residency test and nothing to prove. The registry publishes no eligibility criteria, so a .work is bought the same way a .com is. The only unavailable strings are the ones every new extension has to withhold under ICANN policy, which covers all two-character labels at the second level and the short-form names of countries and territories.
It is one of the better fits, because the extension supplies the category and leaves the whole name in front of the dot for your brand. The trade-off is reach. A UK-only board still wants the .co.uk for local search, and a board covering several countries gets nothing from either. Most job boards using a .work hold it as the public, spoken address and run a .co.uk or .com alongside it for search and for people typing from memory.
It is neutral rather than bad, which is not the same as free. Google has said keywords in an extension give no advantage or disadvantage, so nothing about .work costs you ranking on its own. The real cost is what you do not get. A .co.uk tells Google the site is probably more relevant to people searching in the UK, and a .work says nothing about where you are. If your customers are British and search locally, that missing signal is a real point against it.
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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