diff --git a/po/Makevars b/po/Makevars
index 10ed9f6c3e..7c6f9635ce 100644
--- a/po/Makevars
+++ b/po/Makevars
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Makefile variables for PO directory in any package using GNU gettext.
 
 # Usually the message domain is the same as the package name.
-DOMAIN = $(GETTEXT_PACKAGE)
+DOMAIN = gst-plugins-base-1.0
 
 # These two variables depend on the location of this directory.
 subdir = po