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New generic extensionSince 2014

.healthcare domain registration

An extension for health care: for a hospital, medical center or care provider, saying from the address that its work is people’s health.

Score card

.healthcare in six cells

Our score out of five, as we see it when we help a customer choose.

Trust
3 out of 5
Easy to remember
2 out of 5
Global reach
2 out of 5
Price stability
4 out of 5
Short names available
5 out of 5
Local meaning
1 out of 5

Overview

What is .healthcare

The word healthcare means health care, and it’s broader than the clinic: it covers hospitals, medical centers, home nursing, laboratories and any service concerned with people’s health. .healthcare entered the internet’s root in 2014 as a new generic extension; it is run by Binky Moon, LLC and supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing.

Visitors read it as a statement of health work: whoever holds the address treats or cares for patients. So it suits those who actually provide care, and misleads people if a store or tips site that offers no treatment holds it, however close it is to health.

We have a first-year offer, but the renewal is among the most expensive extensions we sell. The word is long and needs spelling out on the phone, and many people know it less well than .com, so register with it a short name in .com or .co that’s easy to say and leads to it.

Type
New generic extension (new gTLD)
In the root since
July 24, 2014
Name’s origin
healthcare, health care
Responsible body
Binky Moon, LLC
Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
DNSSEC
Supported
Names in Arabic
Supported (IDN)

Who it suits

For your field: is .healthcare the best fit?

Every field has an extension that says something about it. Here is what .healthcare says in each, and which extension completes it.

  • A hospital or medical center

    Excellent · The first choice

    It says you provide care in all its departments, and .com completes it for those who type your name without an extension.

    Register it with.healthcare.com

  • Home care in Kuwait

    Good · A good fit with .com

    It states your work clearly, and your city’s name before it tells the patient’s family you’re close to them; .com serves those who type your name out of habit.

    Register it with.com.healthcare

  • A medical laboratory

    Good · A good fit

    It says you’re part of care, and the lab’s name before it states its specialty.

    Register it with.healthcare.science

  • A single doctor’s clinic

    Good · .clinic is more precise

    For a small clinic .clinic is shorter and more precise, and .healthcare fits if it grows into a center.

    Register it with.clinic.healthcare

  • A non-profit health organization

    Good · A good fit

    It states its field, and .org says it’s not for profit.

    Register it with.healthcare.org

  • A health supplies store

    Consider another · Consider .store

    Health care promises treatment the store doesn’t provide; a trade extension is more honest with your customer.

    Register it with.store.com

What it does for you

What you gain when you register it

  • Your work in the address

    Anyone looking for care knows from the link they’ve reached a health provider.

  • One address for every department

    The hospital, its departments and clinics under one name patients find easily.

  • Email that presents your center

    info@riaya-salmiya.healthcare tells whoever receives it that the message comes from a health care provider.

  • Your name protected

    Register it before someone else uses it for a page impersonating your hospital.

And where its value shows

On the hospital sign

An address that states the field under the name.

On test results

A link patients return to when needed.

In appointment messages

Their source known before they’re opened.

In awareness campaigns

An address that shows who the message is from.

Pros and cons

What you should know before you register

Frankly, as we’d tell a customer who asks us before registering.

Pros

  • 01Covers all of health care
  • 02Suits hospitals, centers and labs
  • 03A first-year offer with us
  • 04Short names are easier to find than in .com
  • 05Supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing

Cons

  • 01Its renewal is among the most expensive we sell
  • 02A long word that needs spelling out on the phone
  • 03Read as a claim to provide care, so it misleads if you don’t
  • 04Less familiar than .com to many people

Rules

Registration terms for .healthcare

What the registry requires and what we add, in one place.

Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
Documents
None required, but you agree to follow the laws that govern the field
Name length
Up to 63 characters
Characters
a–z, digits and hyphens, never first or last
Names in Arabic
Supported (IDN)
Registration term
1 to 10 years
DNSSEC
Supported
Privacy protection
Optional, for a separate fee
Transfer
60 days after registration or the last transfer, with an EPP code; adds a year to its term

Life cycle

From registration until the name is free again

What happens to your name if it isn’t renewed, and when you can still get it back.

  1. 01Registration1 to 10 yearsThe name is yours from the moment you pay, for the term you chose.
  2. 02Before expiry31 days, then 8 days beforeWe remind you twice by email; auto-renewal saves you the reminder.
  3. 03After expiryDays 1–8The website and email stop; renew within these days at the regular renewal price.
  4. 04AuctionFrom day 10The name may go to auction; if it sells, it passes to its buyer.Domain recovery policy
  5. 05Redemption30 daysIf the registry offers it after deletion: a $200 redemption fee plus a year’s renewal.
  6. 06Final deletion5 daysThen the name is free again for anyone to register.

Tips

Before you register

  1. 1A subdomain for each departmentNames such as lab or maternity before yours take patients to the department they want.
  2. 2The city with the hospital’s nameMany hospitals have similar names, so your city’s name sets yours apart.
  3. 3A short name, read as it’s writtenIf it needs spelling out on the phone, it’s too long or too complicated.
  4. 4No digits or hyphens that need explainingEvery hyphen or digit has to be said, and what has to be said gets forgotten.
  5. 5Renew automatically, or register for yearsUp to 10 years at once, so you never miss a date.
  6. 6Make sure the name isn’t someone else’s trademarkA registered trademark’s owner can recover the name from whoever registered it first.

Nearby extensions

If your name is taken in .healthcare

FAQ5 questions

Frequently asked questions about .healthcare

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  • $72 for the first year with an offer, then $102 for each renewal. Look at the renewal price before you register: it’s what you’ll pay every year after the first.

  • Anyone, person or organization, from any country, with no documents. But it’s one of the extensions ICANN binds with special safeguards: at registration you agree to follow the laws that govern its field, data and consumer protection among them.

  • Yes, once 60 days have passed since it was registered or last transferred. Ask your current provider for the transfer (EPP) code and open a transfer request with us; a full year is added to the domain’s term.

  • We remind you by email 31 days and 8 days before expiry, and 3 days after it. After expiry the website and email stop, and you can renew in the first eight days at the regular renewal price; from day 10 it may go to auction. If it is deleted and the registry allows redemption within 30 days, the redemption fee is $200 plus a year’s renewal.

  • Yes. The body responsible for .healthcare has an Arabic table in IANA’s repository of internationalized names (IDN), so the name is written in Arabic and stored in a form that begins with xn--.

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