.consulting Domains: An Address for Advisory Firms
.consulting entered the root zone on 30 January 2014, and the IANA record names Dog Beach, LLC as the sponsoring organisation. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 49,380 names in the zone, of which 39,655 appear in the zone file — around four fifths sit behind a working site. That ratio suggests the ending is used by firms actually trading.
In advisory work a visitor is after something concrete: which problem you solve, in which sector, by what method. The rule follows. Put your firm's name or your own in the root and give the speciality in the page title; because the address stays put, your references and inbound links keep accumulating behind it. Where the work centres on personal development instead, the .coach domain reads more accurately.
.CONSULTING Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Dog Beach, LLC
- Root zone record 30 January 2014
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 49,380 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .consulting domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.
.consulting 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
$26.99 /year -
Transfer
$54.59 /year -
Renewal
$58.79 /year -
Restore
$139.90 -
Late Renewal
$7.32
Included With Every .consulting 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.
.consulting Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .consulting 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 .consulting 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 .consulting 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 $7.32 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 .consulting 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
.consulting Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.consulting Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .consulting domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.consulting Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .consulting Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No — consulting is not a protected profession in most countries and the registry verifies nothing.
Fields such as accountancy, legal advice and statutory audit are licensed, however, and that obligation follows from the service you provide rather than the address. To find out whether a name is free, run a domain name search.
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Look at who you work for: an organisation or an individual?
.consulting points at solving an organisational problem, at process and strategy work, and the client is usually a company. .coach centres on a person's development and describes a one-to-one relationship. Working in both areas, pointing the two addresses at separate pages avoids confusion; details are on the .coach domain page.
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Quite active — 39,655 of 49,380 registrations appear in the zone file.
Those figures come from the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, so roughly four fifths have a published site behind them. That ratio points to a low share of parked names. If the name you want is taken, it is most likely genuinely in use.
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Your service area, working method, reference projects and the basis of your fees.
In advisory work visitors look for concrete examples rather than abstract promises; sector, project scale and outcome fill that gap. A page with a contact form needs an encrypted connection — choose a certificate on the SSL certificate page.
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Begin by asking your current registrar for the authorisation code.
The transfer lock has to be open, sixty days must have passed since registration, and your administrative email address has to work, because the approval link goes there. Check the record with whois search, then start the process on the domain transfer page.
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Make your firm's name or your own the root and avoid repeating the word consulting.
The ending already names the work, so a repeat such as consultingconsultants only lengthens the address. Putting a sector in the root is also binding: change speciality and the address dates. To try variants together, use the bulk domain name search.
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