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New generic extensionSince 2014

.place domain registration

The extension of places: for a café, a restaurant, a hall or a guesthouse, for anyone who wants to invite people to a real place they visit and come back to.

Score card

.place 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
5 out of 5
Short names available
4 out of 5
Local meaning
1 out of 5

Overview

What is .place

The word place means a spot or a location. .place entered the internet’s root in 2014 and is run by Binky Moon, LLC. It names no particular place, so the name before it makes its meaning: beit-nizwa.place or qahwa-omaniya.place, and visitors know they’re looking at a place they can go to.

.place suits cafés, restaurants, event halls and guesthouses, and any place that wants to show its photos, opening hours and how to get there. It can carry the name of a neighborhood or a street, or gather one city’s places in a single guide.

With us its price is fixed for the first year and every renewal. The word is general, so without a clear name before it, it says nothing; and it’s less familiar than .com, so your customer may type .com out of habit. If your visitors are in Oman, put the neighborhood or city in the name, so they know at first sight where to find you.

Type
New generic extension (new gTLD)
In the root since
June 5, 2014
Name’s origin
place
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 .place the best fit?

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

  • A guesthouse or inn

    Excellent · The first choice

    Photos, rooms and directions, under a name that says you have a place waiting for its guests.

    Register it with.place.com

  • An event hall

    Excellent · The first choice

    For reservations, photos and free dates; the name says the place is what you offer.

    Register it with.place.events

  • A café or restaurant

    Good · A good fit

    Says you’re a place to go to; .coffee or .pizza says what’s served there.

    Register it with.place.coffee

  • A landmark or heritage site

    Good · A good fit

    For a page introducing an old place, its history and how to visit.

    Register it with.place.tours

  • A neighborhood shop in Muscat

    Good · A good fit with .com

    The neighborhood’s name before .place tells customers you have an address they can visit; .com is for those who type it out of habit.

    Register it with.com.place

  • An online-only store

    Consider another · Consider .store

    With no place to visit, you don’t need the word “place”; .store says what you are.

    Register it with.store.com

What it does for you

What you gain when you register it

  • A place to visit

    Tells visitors there’s a door to walk through behind the site, not just a page.

  • Email in the place’s name

    info@beit-nizwa.place reaches your guests and says where the message came from.

  • A price that doesn’t change

    The first year and every renewal cost the same.

  • Names still free

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

And where its value shows

On the front door

The address under the sign itself.

On maps

Your link beside the pin.

On the guest’s bill

They come back to it when they miss the place.

On the invitation card

Says where the guest is coming.

Pros and cons

What you should know before you register

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

Pros

  • 01A short word everyone knows
  • 02Says you have a real place
  • 03A fixed price for the first year and every renewal
  • 04Short names are easier to find in it than in .com
  • 05Supports names in Arabic and DNSSEC signing

Cons

  • 01General: says nothing without a clear name before it
  • 02Less familiar than .com
  • 03Your customer may type .com out of habit
  • 04Says nothing about your country

Rules

Registration terms for .place

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. 1The place’s name and town before .placebeit-nizwa.place says what the place is and where, so visitors need not ask.
  2. 2Put the map on the first pageWhoever types a .place address wants to know how to get there.
  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 .place

FAQ5 questions

Frequently asked questions about .place

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Contact support

  • $38 a year, for the first year and every renewal: the price you see when you search, with no other fees at registration.

  • 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 .place 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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