.FOOTBALL Domain Extension

Why choose a .FOOTBALL domain?

No other word in the catalogue names two things this different. Across most of the world, football means the game with a round ball, eleven players and almost no hands. In the United States and Canada it names another sport altogether — an oval ball, helmets, padding. If your audience is local, no difficulty at all. If it is international, your first sentence has to remove the doubt immediately.

The two games

Association football here, the American game there. A visitor from Europe and one from Sherbrooke expect different things entirely.

The club

Squads, fixtures, results, the table, the home ground. Saturday’s result is what everybody comes for on Sunday morning.

The fixture list

Matches, replays, cup rounds, postponements for weather. A postponement published in time saves thirty wasted journeys.

The supporters

Tickets, season passes, travel to away games. A club lives on its regulars far more than on its big nights.

Youth football

Registration, age groups, qualified coaches, kit required. Parents are reading, and what they mostly want is the real cost.

What it actually changes

• The word names two sports. The strongest ambiguity in the whole catalogue: settle it in the first line.
• .soccer exists precisely because of this. If you play the round-ball game for a North American audience, that extension is clearer.
• No registration restrictions. No affiliation to a governing body to demonstrate to the registrar.
• It works as an email address too. juniors@granby.football separates parents from sponsors.