.abogado: A Domain for Spanish-Speaking Legal Practices
.abogado takes its name from the Spanish word for "lawyer" and was delegated to the root zone on 10 July 2014. The sponsoring organisation is Registry Services, LLC, with GoDaddy Registry listed as the administrative and technical contact in the IANA record. The value is immediate: the address states the profession before the page even loads. For a practice addressing Spanish-speaking clients, that saves an explanation.
Who should consider it? Firms working in markets where Spanish is the working language of business. If your clients read English, .attorney covers the same ground, and the two answer to different registries, so a rule that applies in one does not carry over. To test your firm name across both endings at once, a bulk domain name search returns them in a single list.
.ABOGADO Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Registry Services, LLC
- Delegated to the root zone 10 July 2014
- What the name means "lawyer" in Spanish
- Eligibility No published registry restriction could be verified
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .abogado domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.abogado 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
$28.90 /year -
Transfer
$28.99 /year -
Renewal
$31.89 /year -
Restore
$119.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.38
Included With Every .abogado 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.
.abogado Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .abogado 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 .abogado 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 .abogado 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 $6.38 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 .abogado 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
.abogado Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.abogado Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .abogado domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.abogado Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .abogado Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No published registry restriction could be verified. In the primary sources we could reach, nothing states that .abogado is limited to bar-admitted lawyers. What is beyond dispute is the meaning: the word is Spanish for "lawyer". Registering it for a business with no legal connection works against the visitor's expectation, which throws away the one advantage the name gives you. To see who currently holds a name, run a whois search.
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Language and governance both differ. One word is Spanish for lawyer, the other English, so the choice follows the language your clients search in. On the governance side, .abogado is sponsored by Registry Services, LLC, while .attorney answers to Dog Beach, LLC. Two registries mean two policy sets: a renewal or registration rule that holds in one does not automatically hold in the other.
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The name itself does not have to be Spanish — your audience only has to read Spanish. The ending already states the profession, so a surname or firm brand in front of it reads naturally as "this person's legal practice". The decision rule is simple: if most of your clients search in Spanish, the ending earns its place; if most search in another language, put the same budget behind an ending that matches that language.
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Transfers depend on your current registrar's process rather than on the extension. The standard sequence is the same everywhere: lift the transfer lock, obtain the authorisation code, start the request at the gaining registrar, and approve the confirmation sent to the administrative contact. The address keeps resolving throughout. If you want to run it through Atak Domain, the domain transfer page walks through each step in order.
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Yes — not because of anything specific to this extension. A legal practice site almost always carries a contact form, an appointment request or a document upload, and data entered there is not protected over an unencrypted connection. Browsers now flag addresses served without HTTPS. Options are listed on the SSL certificate page, and you can confirm an installation with the SSL checker.
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