About .LAW
The .law domain is a specialized top-level domain (TLD) specifically designed for the legal industry. It was launched in 2015 by Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX), a domain registry operator. .law is intended to provide a trusted and recognizable online space for law firms, legal professionals, and organizations within the legal sector.
.law can be used both as a primary website address, or most commonly as a forwarding address to your main website. Shorter domain names (e.g. xyz.law) are significantly more affordable with .law when compared to .com, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for premium three-letter domains. Short domains like this are very commonplace for law firms since they often use acronyms for their partners.
Another common use for .law domains is for blanket industry domains or geographic domains, such as aviation.law or atlanta.law, respectively. With the domain world rapidly evolving beyond traditional extensions like .com, registering a .law domain presents a unique opportunity to establish a distinguished online identity for your organization.
Why register a .LAW domain?
Establish Authority. .law is restricted to verified members of the legal community, which helps establish credibility and authenticity for websites using this domain. YourName.law instantly builds interest for yourself and your business.
Enhance Recognition. .law allows law firms and legal professionals to create a distinctive online presence that instantly identifies them as part of the legal industry. This can help significantly with Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Plus, there’s less competition for the best names when compared to more crowded domains like .com or .org.
Protect Your Brand. With digital impersonation attacks threatening the integrity of institutions every day, protecting your name across relevant domain extensions is a necessary precaution for all legal institutions. A .LAW domain is an excellent opportunity to expand reachability and security. Learn more about domain portfolio management.
Frequently asked questions about .law.
.LAW is a restricted Top Level Domain (TLD) that aims to promote trust in the professional legal community by creating exclusive online spaces in which lawyers that are regulated and licensed to practice law can present themselves in a distinctive and memorable manner.
.LAW Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible to register (and continue to be a registrant of) a domain name in the .LAW TLD, the registrant must be a Qualified Lawyer or an Authorized Legal Institution (i.e., law firms, law schools, legal regulators such as bar associations, and courts of law. For the purposes of this Eligibility Policy, a Qualified Lawyer is a professional who is licensed to practice law by an approved regulator of legal services in a given jurisdiction. A Qualified Lawyer must be identifiable as a currently licensed practitioner in the public records kept by the relevant approved regulator.
For the purposes of verification, all registrants must provide accurate and up-to-date registrant data, which will be used to verify eligibility. It is particularly essential that the full legal name of the qualified lawyer or authorized legal institution is provided and recorded as the Registrant Name and/or Registrant Organization fields of the Registrant Contact information for the domain in question's WHOIS record.
If the independent verification agency is unable to verify eligibility using only the WHOIS data, a registrant may be asked to provide further information or supporting documentation (such as a copy of an accreditation certificate) to complete the verification process.
Technical information for .law.
- TLD .law
- Type gTLD
- Registration 144.99 USD / year
- Renewal 159.99 USD / year
- Transfer 144.99 USD / Transfer in your .law
- Time to Register Instant
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Renewal Grace Period 40 days
- Redemption Period 45 days
- Private Registration Not Available
- DNSSEC Supported / Learn how to add DNSSEC
- Trustee/Proxy Service No
- Blocking Service Part of the GlobalBlock Service / Learn more
- Languages Supported Chinese Simplified, French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Spanish,
- Individuals can register Yes
- Businesses can register Yes
- Registry GoDaddy Registry
- Information updated 2025-04-01
Why manage your .law domain with 101domain?
101domain is an international domain registration service with the largest selection of global domain names across a variety of subjects. A .law domain is just one of the many TLDs we can find, register, and manage for you and your business.