attorney-domain

.attorney domain

from 99.00€ per year including 19% VAT

Meaning and history

There are many lawyers and law firms. The reason for this is that mankind is quite quarrelsome and there are many occasions, even by law, which are not so clearly regulated. To find a lawyer or a law firm that you trust, you have to compare a bit. In the case of lawyers, there is no need to compare hourly rates, at least in Germany, where this is regulated by the lawyers' fee schedule. In the USA it looks different. Here, there is no upper limit to the hourly wage. To find a lawyer, many people all over the world choose the WWW today. This is a good way to get a good overview of the lawyers in a firm and also of the firm itself, its premises and also its clients may have left references on the website. In short: The WWW offers a very good opportunity for lawyers to present themselves and their law firm. A suitable domain extension for this is .attorney. This is a generic top-level domain especially for lawyers. If you use this domain for your own website, everyone will recognize that this is the web presence of a licensed lawyer.

Allocation

The top-level domain .attorney is administered by Rightside Registry, which is located in Kirkland, Washington State, USA. It is a special top-level domain for this selected professional group. In order to be able to register a domain address, it is necessary that the contact and accreditation data of the responsible licensing or accreditation authority, in this case the bar association, are provided when registering the domain address with this domain extension. Accordingly, this is a highly regulated top-level domain.

Use and meaning

For this reason, the use of the domain extension .attorney is restricted to lawyers and their law firms. Access is not available to any other person, i.e. a private individual or a company that is not a law firm. Since this domain extension is a term that is less known in Germany, the domain extension has for this reason only a very low importance in Germany.

Special features of the domain extension

The current top-level domain for selected professional groups places special requirements on the registrant. The latter must provide the registrar with the contact and registration data of his competent registration or licensing authority (e.g. the bar association or the panel dentist association) upon request. His data deposited with the Registrar must be kept up to date at all times. Upon request, the registrant assures that he has the required qualifications, licenses and permits and undertakes to inform the registrar of any changes in this regard, as defined in the following text: Requirements for highly regulated TLDs: registrants must provide their registrar with administrative contact information for notification of complaints or reports of registration abuse, as well as contact details of relevant industry regulatory or self-regulatory bodies at their principal place of business, which must be kept up to date. In addition, registrants must have all necessary authorizations, charters, licenses and/or other related entitlements to participate in the sector associated with that strictly regulated TLD and report any material changes to the registrant's authorizations, charters, licenses and/or other related entitlements to participate in the sector associated with the strictly regulated TLD.