.legal Domain
The Broader Domain for Legal Services
Register your .legal domain from just £51.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
What is a .legal domain?
The .legal extension covers the full spectrum of the legal industry, from traditional law firms and barristers' chambers to legal technology platforms and document services. It's broader than .lawyer or .attorney, making it suitable for any business in the legal sector.
Who should register .legal?
Law firms, legal tech companies, compliance consultancies, and legal document service providers.
Why choose .legal?
- Covers the entire legal sector
- Suitable for tech, compliance, and advisory
- Broader scope than .lawyer or .attorney
- Modern and professional web presence
Who runs .legal, and since when
Registry data from the .legal 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 20 November 2014
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no legal-sector verification at registration
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £51.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .legal covers more than solicitors and barristers
Only six activities are actually reserved in England and Wales. The Legal Services Act 2007 lists them: exercising a right of audience, conducting litigation, reserved instrument activities, probate activities, notarial activities and administering oaths. Everything else people think of as legal work, drafting a commercial contract, writing a will, advising on employment or data protection, running a case management platform, falls outside that list, and a great deal of it is done by people who are not solicitors.
That gap is why the .legal domain exists alongside .lawyer. Lawyer names a person and invites a question about their qualification. Legal names a field, and the field is far wider than the professions inside it. Legal technology companies, compliance consultancies, costs draftsmen, document services, mediators and in-house teams all sit in it without claiming to be anyone solicitor.
Binky Moon operates the extension on the Identity Digital platform under an agreement signed in October 2014. Registration is open, nothing is verified, and the registry has committed contractually to keeping it that way. The agreement does add three obligations written for sectors that touch the public: comply with applicable law, be told so at the point of registration, and apply reasonable security measures if you hold sensitive health or financial data. That last one deserves a thought if your site takes client documents through a portal. It stops short of the credential representation the .lawyer agreement carries, which is the clearest evidence there is that the two extensions were pitched at different buyers.
Is .legal the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.legal works well if
- You sell into the legal sector rather than practising in it: case management software, e-disclosure, costs drafting, transcription, expert witness directories.
- Your work is legal but unreserved, such as will writing, employment advice or contract drafting, and lawyer would overstate your regulatory position.
- You want one address covering a group that includes a regulated firm and unregulated sister businesses, without the extension picking a side.
- You need a memorable address for a resource: a knowledge base, a template library or a client portal that sits beside the main firm site.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a high street firm whose clients search by town. A .co.uk carries a UK signal in Google that .legal does not, at a fraction of the annual cost.
- You are hoping the extension implies regulation. It verifies nothing, and a client who checks will look for an SRA number rather than an address.
- Your brand name already ends in law or legal. Doubling up gives you something like smithlegal.legal, which reads badly and worse out loud.
Serving local clients who search by town? The .co.uk is still the extension they type by reflex. See .co.uk pricing.
.legal vs .lawyer: which should you register?
The choice between these two is about who you are rather than what you charge, and the registry agreements make the distinction unusually clear.
.lawyer is personal. It names a professional, and its ICANN agreement carries the full regulated-sector safeguards, including a term requiring you to represent that you hold the credentials the word implies. .legal is a field. Its agreement carries the general safeguards but not that representation, and it accommodates the large part of the sector that is not a firm of solicitors: the technology, the compliance work, the document services, the unreserved advice.
For a regulated practice either works and .lawyer reads warmer. For everyone else in the industry, .legal is both the more accurate word and the one that avoids implying a status you do not hold.
| .legal | .lawyer | |
|---|---|---|
| Names | A field of work | A professional |
| Credential promise | Not in the agreement | Required by the agreement |
| Registry operator | Binky Moon, LLC | Dog Beach, LLC |
| In the root zone | Since November 2014 | Since May 2014 |
| Best for | Legal tech and unreserved services | Regulated firms and chambers |
.legal domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .legal domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Registration is open worldwide with no verification, no regulatory check and nothing to supply, and unlike .lawyer the registry agreement contains no clause asking you to represent that you hold legal credentials. That is deliberate on the registry side and useful on yours, because most of the legal sector by headcount is not made up of solicitors and barristers. You still cannot imply regulation you do not have.
Yes, and it is usually a better fit than .lawyer. Will writing is not a reserved legal activity in England and Wales, so a will writer is not a solicitor and should avoid an extension that hints otherwise. .legal describes the field you work in without making a claim about your qualification, which is exactly the position an unregulated provider wants to be in when a client starts checking.
Several times more, every year, for as long as you keep it. That is the honest headline and the ten-year sum is worth doing before you commit. What the money buys is availability and clarity: the two-word .co.uk you actually wanted has probably gone, and a short clean name in front of .legal beats a padded one in front of .co.uk. Many firms hold both and redirect one.
It is treated as a generic extension, so it carries no ranking bonus and no penalty. The one real consequence is geographic: .co.uk tells Google a site targets the United Kingdom and .legal tells it nothing, so on searches with local intent you start slightly behind. Address that with a Google Business Profile, real location pages and UK contact details rather than by changing extension.
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Email Forwarding
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Auto-Renewal
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Free 10GB Mailbox
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