.lawyer Domain
A Commanding Presence for Legal Practices
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This domain has registration restrictions
Anyone may register a .lawyer domain, but the registration agreement makes you represent that you hold the credentials for the legal sector, and UK law backs that representation up. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .lawyer domain?
The .lawyer domain provides solicitors, barristers, and law firms with a web address that commands respect. Understood across legal traditions and jurisdictions, it's an excellent choice for practices serving diverse clients.
Who should register .lawyer?
Solicitors, barristers, law firms, and legal professionals in any jurisdiction.
Why choose .lawyer?
- Universally understood legal term
- Commands respect and recognition
- Works across legal traditions
- Professional alternative to generic domains
Who runs .lawyer, and since when
Registry data from the .lawyer 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
- Dog Beach, LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2014
- Delegated 22 May 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone, but you must represent that you hold the credentials implied
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £51.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
What the .lawyer registry agreement asks you to promise
Most extensions aimed at a profession are open in exactly the same way: pay, register, done. The .lawyer domain is the one in this group where the contract underneath is different. Its ICANN registry agreement carries the full set of public interest commitments written for regulated sectors, and one of them requires your registrar to make you represent, in the registration agreement you accept at checkout, that you hold the credentials for the sector the extension names. Two further clauses require you to report any material change to those credentials, and let the registry consult national supervisory authorities if somebody questions them. For comparison, the .legal and .vet agreements stop several clauses earlier, and .expert has none of it.
Nobody checks the box before the domain resolves. Registration is open, the operator is contractually barred from limiting eligibility by identity, and the name will be live minutes after the order goes through. The promise still stands, and in England and Wales the statute behind it has teeth. The Solicitors Act 1974 makes it an offence for an unqualified person to use any name, title or description implying they are a solicitor, and the Legal Services Act 2007 does the same for barrister. A domain name is a description.
One practical point for an SRA-regulated firm before you build anything. The SRA Transparency Rules require an authorised body to display its SRA number and the SRA digital badge in a prominent place on its website, so plan the footer at the same time you plan the address.
Registry Operators will include a provision in their Registry-Registrar Agreements that requires registrars to include in their Registration Agreements a provision requiring a representation that the registrant possesses any necessary authorizations, charters, licenses and/or other related credentials for participation in the sector associated with the TLD.
What that means if you are buying one
Note what the clause does not say. There is no verification, no practising certificate to submit and no delay while somebody reads it. The obligation lands on you as a representation, which means the moment it stops being true you are in breach of your own registration agreement, quietly, with nothing on screen to tell you.
Who is allowed to register .lawyer?
Anyone may register a .lawyer domain, but the registration agreement makes you represent that you hold the credentials for the legal sector, and UK law backs that representation up.
- Who may register
- Anybody, anywhere. The registry agreement commits the operator to open registration and forbids it from limiting eligibility by identity, so there is no verification step, no document to upload and no waiting period before the domain works.
- The promise you make
- Registrars must include a term requiring you to represent that you possess any necessary authorisations, charters, licences or other credentials for participation in the sector the extension names. You accept it when you accept the registration agreement, in the same click that buys the domain.
- Keeping it current
- A further clause requires registrants to report material changes to those credentials. If you are struck off or suspended, or a practising certificate lapses, the representation you made is no longer true and you are contractually obliged to say so rather than wait to be asked.
- If somebody complains
- Where the registry receives a complaint doubting the authenticity of a licence or credential, its agreement says it should consult the relevant national supervisory authority. In England and Wales that means the Solicitors Regulation Authority or the Bar Standards Board, both of which publish searchable registers.
- If you do not qualify
- Your order will not be refused and the site will work. The exposure sits elsewhere: a false representation breaches the registration agreement, and using any name, title or description implying you are a solicitor or a barrister when you are not is a criminal offence under the Solicitors Act 1974 and the Legal Services Act 2007.
Rules taken from the .lawyer Registry Agreement published by ICANN. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .lawyer the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.lawyer works well if
- You are an SRA-regulated firm or a set of chambers and you want an address that says what you do without a hyphen or an initialism.
- Your practice name is common and every sensible .co.uk built on it has gone, while the short version in front of .lawyer is still free.
- You correspond across jurisdictions, where lawyer travels better than solicitor, a word that means something specific in England and Wales.
- You want a separate address for one practice area or one partner, running alongside the firm site rather than replacing it.
Look elsewhere if
- You are not qualified and the site sells legal services to consumers. The contractual representation is the least of it; implying you are a solicitor is a criminal offence.
- Your clients are local and find you through UK search. A .co.uk carries a country signal that .lawyer does not, and costs roughly a fifth as much each year.
- You are a will writer, a paralegal service or a claims business. Lawyer sets an expectation your regulatory status may not match, and .legal is the safer word.
Practising as a solicitor for UK clients? A .co.uk still does more for local search and costs a fraction of this. See .co.uk pricing.
.lawyer vs .attorney: which should you register?
These two launched together in 2014 and there is nothing to choose between them technically. The difference is entirely linguistic, and for a British firm that difference settles it.
Attorney is American. In England and Wales the word survives mainly inside the phrase power of attorney, and a client who reads it on a UK firm site will assume either that you are a US practice or that you copied one. Lawyer is understood on both sides of the Atlantic, which makes it the sensible buy here, and it is the slightly cheaper of the two.
If you practise in both jurisdictions, or serve American clients from London, holding both and redirecting one costs less than the confusion would.
| .lawyer | .attorney | |
|---|---|---|
| Common UK usage | Everyday word for a legal professional | Rare outside power of attorney |
| Annual cost | Lower of the two | Higher |
| Eligibility check | None at registration | None at registration |
| Length after dot | 6 characters | 8 characters |
| Best for | UK and cross-border practices | US practices and US-facing work |
.lawyer domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .lawyer domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo qualification is checked, but you do have to promise you hold one. The registry agreement requires registrars to make you represent that you possess the credentials for the legal sector, and no verification sits behind it, so the domain resolves either way. In England and Wales the harder limit is statutory: using a description implying you are a solicitor or a barrister without being one is a criminal offence.
.lawyer suits a practice made of qualified people and .legal suits a business serving the legal sector without claiming to be a firm of solicitors. The registry agreements reflect that split, because .lawyer carries the credential representation and .legal does not. Legal technology companies, costs draftsmen, compliance consultancies and will writers all sit more comfortably on .legal, and a regulated firm sits more comfortably on .lawyer.
Nothing happens automatically. No registry monitors the roll and no suspension flows through to your DNS. What does change is your position under the registration agreement, which requires registrants to report material changes to the credentials they represented. If you retire, move in-house or are struck off, the honest step is to retire the address as well, or repoint it at something that makes no professional claim.
Only when the name you want has gone on .co.uk. That is the usual reason firms end up here and it is a good one, because a clean short name beats a padded long one. Set against it: the .co.uk sends a UK search signal, transfers between registrars almost instantly on an IPS tag change, and costs a fraction of this every year. Plenty of firms hold both and redirect.
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