.accountants: Built for Firms That Work as a Team
.accountants was delegated to the root zone on 24 April 2014 and is sponsored by Binky Moon, LLC, part of the Identity Digital portfolio. The plural spelling is a choice that carries meaning: with a partnership, an office staffed by several advisers or an audit team behind it, the address implies the scale of the firm on its own. In a solo practice, the same plural can overstate things.
One thing to know before choosing: the singular .accountant is not a variant of this extension but an independent one belonging to dot Accountant Limited. Brand protection therefore has to consider both spellings. No eligibility restriction could be verified, so a business outside accounting can register too. To review candidates in one list, a bulk domain name search helps.
.ACCOUNTANTS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Delegated to the root zone 24 April 2014
- Singular form .accountant — a separate TLD held by dot Accountant Limited
- Eligibility No published registry restriction could be verified
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .accountants domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.accountants Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$32.99 /year -
Transfer
$116.99 /year -
Renewal
$125.99 /year -
Restore
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Late Renewal
$20.48
Included With Every .accountants Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.accountants Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .accountants domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .accountants address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .accountants domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $20.48 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .accountants returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.accountants Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.accountants Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .accountants domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.accountants Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .accountants Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No verifiable eligibility restriction applies. We found no primary source showing that the registry requires a professional credential, chamber membership or particular company form, so registration looks open as it stands. That also means anyone who wants the name can take it — so if your brand name matters, registering early is the practical protection. A whois search shows who currently holds it.
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Wrong overstates it, but it can read as a mismatch. The address promises a firm that works as a team; when the site behind it shows a single practitioner, visitors feel the gap. Working alone, the singular .accountant sets the expectation correctly. If you plan to grow and want the name reserved now, taking the plural is a defensible call too.
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If the budget allows, yes, because the two extensions are independent of each other. Holding the plural does not stop somebody else taking the singular, and two similar addresses in the same sector invite confusion. The rule: if your brand is already searched for and recognised, take both; if you are only starting out, the one spelling that fits your work is enough. Compare them side by side with a bulk domain name search.
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Yes — for email this extension behaves like any other generic ending. Point the domain's MX records at your email provider and the addresses start working. For business correspondence, publish SPF, DKIM and DMARC records as well; without them, messages you send can land in recipients' spam folders regardless of how the domain reads. All of these are added from the DNS management panel.
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The process mirrors the flow used by other generic extensions. Lift the transfer lock at your current provider, collect the authorisation code, open the request at the gaining registrar and approve the confirmation sent to the administrative address. A transfer restriction can apply during the first 60 days after registration, and requests inside that window are refused. The steps are laid out in order on the domain transfer page.
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