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.design Domains

A .design Name for Your Portfolio.

Your address says what you do before anyone opens the page. Buy it here and we point it at your website for you.

See if your .design is free
Type a word to see it across the popular endings, or the whole name, like mystartup.design, to ask about just that one. A standard .design here is $61.02 a year.
Tell us what the site is, in a word or a sentence, and we suggest names, then check which ones are still available.

What to Know Before Buying a .design

  • Your own name is probably free

    A designer's name is usually gone on .com. On .design, firstnamelastname.design is much more likely to be available.

  • It suits work that gets shown

    Graphic, product, interior and fashion designers all use it, and it does its job best on a portfolio link in an application or a message.

  • Know the yearly cost

    It is a pricier ending. Expect about $47 a year at the cheapest sellers once any first-year offer ends, so check the price in the search above before you commit.

.design Domains at a Glance

Registry
Registry Services, LLC (GoDaddy Registry)
Type
Generic
Who can register
Anyone, anywhere
Shortest term
1 year
HTTPS
Not forced by the ending
How Google treats it
Generic, not tied to a country

Who Uses It

adobe.design

Adobe's design team

uber.design

Uber's design team

How Big Companies Use It

The most interesting use of .design is not on a freelance portfolio. Adobe runs its design team's website on adobe.design, and Uber does the same on uber.design. Neither replaces the main company website. They give the design team an address of its own, for showing work and recruiting.

The same idea works for one person. Your own name on .com is probably taken. Yourname.design is likely to be free, and it tells a hiring manager what they are about to see before they click. It works especially well as a single link in an application.

It is one of the pricier endings to keep, at about $47 a year at the cheapest sellers we checked in November 2026. That is a fair cost if your work gets you paid. If you are still at school, a cheaper ending with the same website will get you just as far.

A Good Fit For

  • Designer portfolios and job applications. A .design under your own name tells a hiring manager what they are about to see, and it works especially well as the single link you send.
  • A company's design team website. Adobe and Uber both use one, which gives the team a place to show work and recruit, without touching the main company website.

Not the Best Fit For

  • Tight budgets, given the yearly cost. It is one of the pricier endings to keep, so if you are starting out, a cheaper ending with the same portfolio on it will get you just as far.
  • Work unrelated to design. The ending sets a clear expectation before anyone opens the page, so visitors looking for something else may simply assume they have come to the wrong place.

What the Price Pays For

A registrar that only sells names will usually charge less for the name. What you get here is everything after it, in the same place as your website.

  • The connecting is done for you

    We write the DNS records and join the name to your website ourselves. Nothing to look up and nothing to copy between accounts.

  • The padlock comes with it

    The SSL certificate is issued when you pick the website, then renewed for as long as you use the name. It is not an extra.

  • Email on your name

    Add hello@ or info@ on the name, and mail sent there lands in the inbox you already read. The forwarding and MX records are set up here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to be a designer to buy a .design?

No. Anyone can register one, though it says most on work that is about design.

Can I host a design portfolio on it?

Yes. Upload your HTML files, a ZIP, images or a PDF, pick the website, and the name opens it.

Is .design good for SEO?

It neither helps nor hurts. Google treats newer endings as generic, so your work and the words on the page decide how it ranks.

Is .design worth it compared with .com?

If your name is free on .com at a lower price, that is the safer choice for most people. If it is taken, a .design under your own name beats a .com with extra words in it.

Do big companies use .design?

Yes, mostly for their design teams. Adobe uses adobe.design and Uber uses uber.design, each beside the main company website.

Do I need a paid plan?

The name is its own yearly purchase, and you can use it with a website kept anywhere. Connecting it to a website here needs a paid plan, from Starter. Free websites stay on a free subdomain.

Is the name mine, and can I move it later?

Yes. It is registered in your name, and the code you need to take it elsewhere is a click away in its menu. A name you already own elsewhere can move here the same way.

Other endings: .com domains, .co domains, .store domains, .shop domains, .xyz domains, .app domains, .studio domains, .io domains, .dev domains, .ai domains, .tech domains, all domain names

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