.shop Domain Names
.shop domain names, ready to trade
Four letters that mean the same thing in shopping districts everywhere. .shop is the literal ending — the address as signage, understood before the page loads. Register from $3.99/yr, with the renewal figure shown before you pay.
.shop
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The Extension
Why .shop?
.shop went live in 2016 from the new-gTLD round and competes for the same work as .store: telling the visitor, in the address itself, that this is a place to buy. It is a letter shorter, reads as the more everyday word in British English, and has been adopted widely in markets where 'shop' is the borrowed English word for retail. Between the two, honestly, the better name usually decides — take whichever reads best with your brand, and consider holding both if the brand justifies it.
Mechanically it is a standard gTLD: open worldwide, auth-code transfers under ICANN rules, WHOIS privacy included free here. The registrar's checklist for any commerce name applies — registration in your details rather than a platform's, SSL live before the first product page, mail authentication published before the first order confirmation — and the renewal is shown beside the registration before any money moves.
Good Fit
.shop works best for
- Online shops wanting the shortest literal ending
- Local retailers adding a web shopfront to a physical one
- Brands trading in markets where 'shop' is the everyday word
- The sibling registration beside a .store or .com
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Literal and short
The everyday word for retail, one letter shorter than its rival — an address that works as a shop sign in most of the world's markets.
Commerce-grade setup
Free SSL at first resolution, SPF, DKIM and DMARC from the zone editor, and the registration in your own name throughout.
The pair question answered
.shop and .store searched together, so defending both — or choosing confidently between them — is one decision with the facts in view.
Common Questions
Questions about .shop
.shop or .store — which should I register?
Say both aloud with your brand name and pick the one that flows; that test settles most cases. .shop is shorter and the more everyday British word; .store sometimes reads better with certain names. For a brand worth defending, registering both and redirecting one to the other costs a routine renewal and ends the question permanently.
Is .shop recognised outside English-speaking countries?
Unusually well — 'shop' is one of English's most-borrowed commercial words, used natively in German, Japanese, Dutch and dozens of other markets' everyday retail vocabulary. That makes .shop one of the more travel-proof endings of its generation for cross-border commerce.
What happens to my shop if the domain lapses?
The same as any name: resolution stops — shop, checkout and order emails together — then grace, then redemption at a steep registry fee, then release. For a trading shop that sequence is measured in lost revenue per hour, which is why auto-renew against an in-date card and a monitored contact mailbox are the first settings we check, not the last.
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