Buy your .lawyer domain today

Law firms, solo practitioners and lawyers building a personal brand are who .lawyer is designed for, and registrars also market it to legal review services. It names the profession directly, so visitors know they have reached a lawyer.

That directness helps a practitioner whose own name is the brand. A lawyer's full name plus .lawyer is short, clear and easy to share.

No license is checked when you register a .lawyer domain, but you do represent to the registry that you hold any licenses or credentials your work requires. .lawyer sits in ICANN's highly regulated tier, the same tier as .attorney.

If your license status changes, you agree to tell the registry. Treat the registration as a formal statement about your practice.

Yes, .law is a separate extension, and unlike .lawyer it verifies that the holder is a currently licensed lawyer or an authorized legal institution. Applicants submit their bar or accreditation details, and the registry checks them after registration.

So .law signals a verified license, while .lawyer relies on your own statement of credentials. .law is sold by a different registry with its own eligibility process.

Choose .lawyer if you are a practicing lawyer marketing yourself or your firm, and .legal if your site offers legal services or tools more broadly. .legal carries no statement of credentials, so it suits legal tech, document services and legal information sites.

A firm can hold both, putting the practice on .lawyer and a client resources site on .legal.

A .lawyer domain can break advertising rules only if the name is false or misleading, the same test the ABA applies to firm names. The comments to ABA Model Rule 7.1 allow a firm to use a distinctive website address that is not misleading.

Your state bar's version of the rules is the one that applies. Avoid names that suggest a specialty certification, a partnership or a public body you do not have.

A .lawyer registration asks for an up-to-date administrative contact and the contact details of the regulator or self-regulatory body where you mainly practice, in most cases your state bar. These details give complaints and regulators a clear route to you.

Keep them current when you move firms or jurisdictions.

Clients trust a .lawyer address most when the firm behind it is easy to verify, since the extension is newer and less familiar than .com. Your bar number, office address and attorney profiles on the site carry more weight than the ending.

If you already have an established .com, forwarding it to your .lawyer site keeps returning clients from getting lost.