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New generic extensionSince 2014

.guide domain registration

The extension of guides: for a tour guide, a city guide or how-tos that teach people something step by step, for anyone who wants to say they know the way and lead their visitors.

Score card

.guide 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
4 out of 5
Global reach
2 out of 5
Price stability
4 out of 5
Short names available
4 out of 5
Local meaning
1 out of 5

Overview

What is .guide

The word guide means someone or something that knows the way and shows it to others. .guide entered the internet’s root in 2014 and is run by Binky Moon, LLC. It is a short word familiar in travel and learning, understood by most people who know some English.

.guide suits tour guides, city and restaurant guides, and how-to sites that teach a skill or explain a device or a procedure, and guides for students and travelers. At jawla-muscat.guide, visitors know before opening the page that they’ll find someone to show them around Muscat, its markets and its landmarks.

With us the first year comes with an offer, and the renewal costs a little more. The word promises knowledge, so a guide who gets things wrong loses a reader’s trust faster than others. It’s less familiar than .com, so your visitor may type .com out of habit. If your visitors come to Oman from abroad, write your page in Arabic and English together.

Type
New generic extension (new gTLD)
In the root since
May 8, 2014
Name’s origin
guide
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 .guide the best fit?

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

  • A tour guide

    Excellent · The first choice

    Tours, prices and dates under a name that says what you do: you’re the guide.

    Register it with.guide.tours

  • A city or restaurant guide

    Excellent · The first choice

    For anyone gathering the best places and pointing people to them; readers know from the name they’ve found someone to show the way.

    Register it with.guide.com

  • A how-to and learning site

    Good · A good fit

    Lessons that teach a skill step by step; .academy if you add courses.

    Register it with.guide.academy

  • A product’s user guide

    Good · A good fit

    The help pages apart from the store; the main site stays on .com.

    Register it with.com.guide

  • A travelers’ guide to Oman

    Good · A good fit with .city

    To a visitor from abroad, .guide says you’ll show them around, and .city with your city’s name that you’re a local.

    Register it with.guide.city

  • A law office

    Consider another · Consider .legal

    Clients look for a lawyer, not how-tos; .legal says what you offer.

    Register it with.legal.com

What it does for you

What you gain when you register it

  • A guide’s trust

    The name says you know the way, so people who need directions come to you.

  • Email before the trip

    Travelers write to info@jawla-muscat.guide before they ever reach Muscat.

  • A familiar word

    Understood in travel and learning with no explaining.

  • Names still free

    Short names are easier to find in it than in .com.

And where its value shows

On the guide’s card

Travelers take it home.

In the tour leaflet

The link to photos and details.

In travelers’ group chats

Travelers send it to anyone asking for a guide.

In search results

Says the page is a guide, not an ad.

Pros and cons

What you should know before you register

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

Pros

  • 01A familiar word in travel and learning
  • 02Says you know the way
  • 03A first-year offer, with a renewal only a little higher
  • 04Short names are easier to find in it than in .com
  • 05Supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing

Cons

  • 01Less familiar than .com
  • 02Says nothing about your country or your town
  • 03Your customer may type .com out of habit

Rules

Registration terms for .guide

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

Who may register
Anyone, person or organization, from any country
Documents
None required
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. 1Name the place you guide injawla-muscat.guide says where you take your visitors, so anyone heading to Muscat finds you.
  2. 2Register .tours for the tours pageThe guide introduces you, and .tours shows your tours and their dates.
  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.

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FAQ5 questions

Frequently asked questions about .guide

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  • $38 for the first year with an offer, then $50 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 or conditions; the contact details in the owner’s name just need to be accurate.

  • 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 .guide 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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