The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)* granted Minds + Machines, a Santa Monica, California company, with an exclusive license to operate .law as a new top-level domain. This new domain is only available to attorneys and law firms. Anyone who applies for a .law domain must certify that he or she is an attorney and submit to a verification process. Minds + Machines started taking orders last month, and some prominent, large law firms have signed up as early adopters.
For more information, check out these sites and articles.
- http://nic.law/
- http://investors.mindsandmachines.com/
- http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/
- http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/early_adopters_take_new_law_domains
- http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/legal_marketers_get_early_crack_at_law_domain_names
- http://www.lawsitesblog.com/2015/04/former-head-of-bloomberg-law-lexisnexis-to-lead-new-law-top-level-domain.html
Stay tuned for news regarding other possible new domains in the future, such as .esq and .lawyer.
*Created in 1998, ICANN is a non-profit organization responsible for the coordination of namespaces on the Internet. For more information about ICANN, check out https://www.icann.org/.
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