.accountants Domain
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Register your .accountants domain from just £91.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .accountants domain?
The .accountants extension gives accountancy firms, bookkeepers, and financial professionals a domain that speaks directly to their expertise. Clients searching for qualified accounting help will immediately recognise your professional focus.
Who should register .accountants?
Accountancy practices, bookkeepers, tax advisors, and payroll service providers.
Why choose .accountants?
- Instantly communicates financial expertise
- Differentiates from generic business sites
- Builds client confidence from the URL
- Perfect for local and specialist practices
Who runs .accountants, and since when
Registry data from the .accountants delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registry operator
- Binky Moon, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 24 April 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no accountancy qualification or registration check
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £91.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
The .accountants and .accountant confusion, and what it costs
There are two of these, one letter apart. .accountants, plural, is operated by Binky Moon for Identity Digital and has been in the root zone since April 2014. .accountant, singular, is a separate extension delegated in February 2015 to dot Accountant Limited in Gibraltar, one of the sixteen in the Global Registry Services portfolio alongside .loan, .win, .bid and .download. Different registries, different pricing, different neighbourhoods. We sell the plural, and whichever you buy you should expect to spell it out every time you say it.
The plural is one of the dearer extensions we carry, at roughly nine times the annual cost of a .co.uk. Start there, because a practice keeps a domain for as long as it keeps clients and that bill repeats without anyone deciding to renew it.
What the money does not buy is vetting of any kind. The ICANN agreement carries the Category 1 public interest commitments that apply to regulated sectors, so through your registrar you undertake to comply with applicable laws on privacy, data collection and consumer protection, and to secure sensitive financial data. There is no check that you are ACCA, ICAEW, AAT or CIMA qualified, no professional body lookup and no certificate to upload. A prospective client reading the address learns your sector, not your standing.
Which is the argument for treating it as a campaign or landing address rather than the practice's main one. Put the qualifications on the page. Let the domain do the categorising.
Is .accountants the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.accountants works well if
- Your firm name is a surname or a set of initials that means nothing on its own, and the extension supplies the category the name leaves out.
- You are launching a specialist line, contractor accounts or research and development claims say, and want a landing address separate from the practice site.
- The .co.uk you wanted went to a firm in another county years ago, and holding the exact name matters more to you than the extension does.
- You advertise offline, on vans, sponsor boards or in the local press, where a category word in the address does more work than a strapline.
Look elsewhere if
- It costs roughly nine times a .co.uk every year, for a practice that will hold the name for decades. Multiply that out before you commit to it.
- A near-identical .accountant exists on a different registry, so callers, typists and printers will get it wrong and you will correct them for the life of the domain.
- Almost all your work arrives through local referral and local search, where a .co.uk gives Google a UK signal that no generic extension carries.
A local practice competing on local search? The .co.uk is a fraction of the price and works harder in UK results. See .co.uk pricing.
.accountants vs .co.uk: which should you register?
This is the comparison that decides it, and price is only half of it. A .co.uk costs a small fraction of a .accountants and tells Google the site is aimed at the UK. For a practice whose clients are within an hour of the office, that geographic signal is worth more than any category word in the address bar.
Where .accountants earns a place is when the name to the left of the dot is doing no work at all. A surname on a .co.uk says nothing about what the firm does. The same surname on .accountants says one useful thing. If your practice is named after people rather than after what it sells, the extension fills a gap a strapline would otherwise have to fill.
For most UK practices the honest answer is both: the .co.uk on the letterhead and the .accountants redirecting to it. That way you keep the search signal and gain a line that works on radio, print and vehicle livery.
| .accountants | .co.uk | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic signal to Google | None | United Kingdom |
| Annual cost | Roughly nine times a .co.uk | Baseline UK price |
| Transfer speed | Hours to seven days | Near instant, by IPS tag change |
| WHOIS privacy | Paid add-on | Free for UK individuals under Nominet rules |
| Professional vetting | None | None |
.accountants domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .accountants domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. The registry runs it as an open extension with no professional body lookup and no certificate to upload. Its ICANN agreement carries the Category 1 commitments about complying with applicable law and protecting sensitive financial data, but those are undertakings you give through your registrar, not checks anybody performs on you. The practical consequence is that the address proves nothing to a client, so your qualifications and firm registration number need to be visible on the site itself.
They are two separate extensions run by two unrelated registries. The plural is operated by Binky Moon for Identity Digital and was delegated in April 2014. The singular went to dot Accountant Limited in Gibraltar in February 2015 and sits in the Global Registry Services portfolio next to .loan, .win and .download. We sell the plural. Neither is a variant of the other, so registering one gives you no claim on the other and no protection against someone else taking it.
Often not, and it is worth being blunt about that. At roughly nine times a .co.uk a year, a sole practitioner or a two-partner firm is paying a meaningful sum every year for a word that a strapline says for free. It makes more sense when the firm name is opaque, when you advertise offline, or when you want a memorable second address for a specific service. As the only domain a small local practice owns, the .co.uk is the better buy.
Not on its own, and not as much as a .co.uk would. Google treats every extension outside ICANN's country-code list as generic, so .accountants carries no geographic signal at all. Local visibility comes from your Google Business Profile, consistent name and address details, reviews and pages that actually name the towns you serve. A keyword in the extension is not a ranking factor. Buy it for memorability rather than for search.
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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