.STUDIO Domain Extension

Why choose a .STUDIO domain?

Photography studio, recording studio, design studio, yoga studio, dance studio, pottery studio. What all of these have in common is not the discipline: it is that somewhere there is a room where something gets made. That is what the word names — a place of production, as against .gallery, which names a place of display. One makes, the other shows.

The space for hire

Hourly or daily rates, kit included, access, parking. A good share of studios live as much on hire as on their own output.

The creative studio

Design, illustration, animation, games. The word implies a team that makes things rather than an agency that coordinates them — a distinction clients pick up on.

Recording

Desks, live rooms, mic list, acoustics. Your clients choose on precise technical grounds they want to read before phoning.

Classes and workshops

Yoga, pottery, screen printing, life drawing. A clear timetable and a term price do more for enrolment than a beautiful photograph of the room.

The shared workshop

Several makers sharing a rent, a kiln or a press. A common address gives public existence to a grouping that often has no legal form at all.

What it actually changes

• It says you make rather than show. That is the useful distinction against .gallery, and it reads at a glance.
• The word is identical in French and English. Rare, and convenient for a space whose clients come from both.
• No registration restrictions. No lease or proof of premises to show the registrar.
• It works as an email address too. bookings@theforge.studio keeps hire enquiries apart from the rest of your correspondence.