.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 There are no requirements for buying .consulting domain registration
- 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 / years -
Transfer
$54.59 / years -
Renewal
$58.79 / years -
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
Domain lifecycle
The stages in order, from registration to releaseDomain 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 yours for the term you chose. You can renew at any point before expiry to keep it uninterrupted, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Redemption Period (Redemption Period)
The domain is not released the moment it expires — during this window it is still yours and can be recovered. Some extensions charge an extra restore fee at this stage, so renewing before expiry is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete Period (Pending Delete Period)
If the redemption window is missed too, the domain enters the final stage and waits to be deleted. Renewal and recovery are no longer possible here; when the period ends the registration is removed for good.
Domain Is Available Again
Once deletion completes, the domain leaves the system and anyone can register it — popular names are often taken the same minute by someone watching. Keep auto-renewal on so a name you care about never gets this far.
.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 There are no requirements for buying .consulting domain registration
- 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
.consulting Domain Registration Periods
- Registration Periods 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 years
- Renewal Periods 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 years
- Pre-registration 1 days
- Accounting Period 45 days
- Finalization Period 1 days
- Failure Period 45 days
- Payment Period 45 days
- Redemption Period 30 days
- Deletion Hold Period 30 days
- Renewal Time 30 Day
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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