Domain categories

Which domain category fits your website?

Explore Popular, Business or Geographic for a broad starting point. Compare Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Technology, Services, Money and Finance, Education, Food and Drink, Leisure and Recreation, Shopping, Real Estate or Novelty for a particular purpose. These are browsing categories, not sales rankings. Schools and students also have focused guides.

Example: choosing for a new public website

For a new public website, compare .com for a broad business or personal identity with .org for a community initiative. Keep the name flexible if the website may change direction. The name brightpath.com is an illustrative spelling, not a checked registration offer.

The page should help a first-time visitor to recognise the name and find the right contact. Prepare an introduction, clear navigation and current contact details before launch. Several competing addresses for the same website is a specific issue to resolve while the name is still a draft.

Choose the address for the first visit

For a new public website in the UK, compare .co.uk or .uk with .com. Start with the task: a first-time visitor should be able to recognise the name and find the right contact. The more descriptive ending is useful only if it helps explain that visit. Keep the same recognisable name in both candidates.

Sketch the first page before registering. Give space to an introduction, clear navigation and current contact details. If those details do not fit the promise in the proposed address, change the name or narrow the project. A domain can introduce the website, but the page still has to deliver the promised information.

Example: choosing for a software product website

For a software product website, compare .app for an application or software product with .tech for a broader technology project. Your publishing setup needs HTTPS. The name patchworktools.app is an illustrative spelling, not a checked registration offer.

The page should help someone evaluating a new tool to try the product and find its documentation. Prepare a working demo, documentation, support details and product limitations before launch. Launch links continuing to point to a temporary development address is a specific issue to resolve while the name is still a draft.

Connect printed and online references

Try patchworktools.co.uk on a product introduction, then try patchworktools.app. These are illustrative spellings, not availability results. Ask someone unfamiliar with Patchwork Tools to read each aloud and write it down. Watch for words that disappear where the name meets the ending.

Next, follow the address as someone evaluating a new tool. Open the demo page without signing into a private account. The name on the page, its main heading and its contact details should point to the same identity. A neat spelling is less useful if the public link reaches an unfinished screen.

Example: choosing for a bookable activity project

For a bookable activity project, compare .camp for a camp or outdoor programme with .games for a game community or gaming project. Explain the format, participants and practical arrangements. The name trailweekend.camp is an illustrative spelling, not a checked registration offer.

The page should help someone arranging an outing to check the activity and decide whether to book. Prepare dates, meeting information, participation requirements and contact details before launch. A playful name hiding essential information about the activity is a specific issue to resolve while the name is still a draft.

Keep the decision with the right person

For this project, the activity organiser should know which account holds the domain and where renewal notices arrive. If a designer connects the website, agree which changes they may make and how access will be handed back. The account should remain recoverable after a redesign.

The specific issue to avoid is a playful name hiding essential information about the activity. Record why the chosen address is the main one and what any extra registrations are for. That makes it easier to retain the right name when the website grows, the people involved change or a temporary campaign ends.

Read the registration quote and check the ongoing cost

Compare registration quotes for the complete shortlist in the site's selected currency. The table displays cached registration amounts and any known term; it does not quote the cost of every future renewal. A blank offer shown as an em dash is not a free domain.

Before placing the order, check the renewal charge and whether website publishing or email is a separate purchase. Keep one useful domain within a budget you can maintain. The final search may show a newer promotion or a premium-name charge that is not represented by the extension-level cache.

Search an ending, a category or a full domain

Filter by extension, category or country/region. A pasted domain matches its listed ending; use the domain search to check availability. Browse 80 rows at a time. Missing registration quotes show an em dash.

Make the next step a working public page

Use the domain search when you have two or three readable candidates. Once you have selected an available name and reviewed its terms, connect it to the platform that will host the homepage. Publish an introduction, clear navigation and current contact details before announcing the address.

Check the result on a phone, follow its main link and confirm the contact route works. Then replace temporary links on a profile link and the profiles people already use to reach Brightpath. Keep the site small enough to maintain and add more pages when there is useful material for them.