.MARKET Domain Extension

Why choose a .MARKET domain?

Every other word in this group assumes a single seller: you. This one assumes the opposite — a market is a place where many sellers meet many buyers, and your job is to keep the place rather than to trade in it. That is a difference of business model, not just vocabulary: you do not earn on a margin, you earn on the fact that people turn up.

The marketplace

Many merchants, one basket, one checkout. Your real product is trust: buyers are dealing with you, not with strangers.

The market square

Growers, cheesemongers, bakers, makers. Who is there this week, at what time, and what came in fresh: the information changes every Saturday.

The sellers

Registration, terms, pitch fees or commission. A market only lives if it attracts sellers before it attracts buyers.

Market research

“The market” also names a sector, a demand, an audience. The word serves analysis firms as readily as traders.

Commission

Percentage taken, fixed fees, how quickly sellers are paid. Publishing these terms attracts good sellers and prevents misunderstandings.

What it actually changes

• It implies more than one seller. That separates it from the whole group, where the subject is always one shop and its price.
• It carries the economic sense too. A marketplace, a market square and a market sector all fit the same word without confusion.
• No registration restrictions. No trading licence or proof of activity to show the registrar.
• It works as an email address too. sellers@towncentre.market keeps trader enquiries apart from the public’s.