doctor-domain

Becoming a doctor - that is one of the desired professions of young children. However, if the children grow up, then the desired profession usually seems to be a long way off. Because the training to become a doctor requires good grades in school and, above all, the will and the strength and courage to persevere through the studies. At the end, however, for most of them the dream of having their own practice or saving lives in the operating theatre or vaccinating people in a developing country comes true. Self-employed rural doctors in particular are having a hard time, however, as the rural population is increasingly migrating to the cities. There are a number of practices that have their own website. On this website they like to show how modern they are set up and what they can do beyond the standard. In order to be found by potential patients, a medical practice - regardless of whether it is a general practitioner, a cosmetic surgeon or a dentist or orthodontist - can secure a meaningful domain extension for its own website. The domain in question is .doctor. This is a generic top-level domain specifically for doctors. Doctors, however, also means that the person who can register such a domain has a doctorate in a field other than medicine.

Award guidelines

Domain addresses ending in .doctor are freely allocated to persons who can prove that they have a doctorate - regardless of the field. After all, the domain extension is not intended to be abused. However, the allocation is also open to companies that want to bring health-related topics to the WWW. Thanks to the internationality of doctor, it is an understandable and concise domain extension.

Use and meaning

Especially internationally, the domain extension .doctor is used. In Germany, doctors usually register their website under the country-specific or a regional domain extension. The domain extension is therefore not of great importance nationally.