Buy .mr Domain Name

The condition comes down to one sentence: if your head office is not in Mauritania or in a country of the Arab Maghreb or ECOWAS, you must establish eligibility through a trademark. The charter's eligibility clause expressly covers legal entities based abroad that hold a mark covering Mauritania, and those holding a national or international mark verifiable in the global trademark databases. In that case the name you may request is the one corresponding to the mark.

There is no single published document list for ordinary registrations; what is required depends on the name you choose and on the route by which you qualify. The charter sets up a separate regime for terms subject to prior examination: the registrar sends the supporting evidence to the registry in advance, the applicant must prove identity and standing to hold that term, and the registry may request any further document it considers necessary. Foreign companies qualifying via a mark need a verifiable trademark registration.

The naming charter defines the validity period as renewable for one to ten years, and you choose the length through your registrar. On the expiry date renewal is tacit: unless the registrar sends a deletion request the name simply continues, and the tacit renewal runs for one year. That is a practical safeguard for a name you intend to hold long term — even so, agree your renewal instructions with your registrar explicitly.

Yes. The relevant clause is explicit: the holder may change registrar, it is for the holder to select the new one and have it carry out the operation, and the incoming registrar must ensure the change does not affect ownership of the name in any way. Separately, if a registrar's contract with the registry ends, its names are treated as «orphan domains» and holders are given a deadline to choose a new registrar. You can start on the domain transfer page.

No. In the 13 August 2026 measurement the registry's WHOIS returned only the domain name, its identifier, the dates, the registrar's details, the status code, the name servers and the DNSSEC state; registrant, administrative and technical contact blocks were absent entirely. The charter frames this too: information and documents other than those reachable through WHOIS are confidential by nature, save for requests from a judicial or otherwise competent authority.

It depends on the cause, and the distinction matters. Where the name was deleted at the registrar's request, a thirty-day restoration window applies and the name can be reactivated with the same configuration. Where deletion followed a court decision, a dispute resolution decision or an unsuccessful verification procedure by the registry, there is no restoration window: the name returns to the public pool immediately and another applicant may register it.

Two routes exist, and the registry is a party to neither. It acts only on a court decision or on the outcome of the dispute resolution procedure it accepts — the one operated by the Mauritanian regulator. The charter says so plainly and adds that the registry will in no way intervene in judicial proceedings concerning the names in its charge. If the decision orders a transfer, the registry carries it out and the new holder passes the full eligibility checks.

The charter lists them one by one: mr, nic, www, org, gov, com, edu, perso, net, web, w3, whois, asso, gouv, info and the spelling variants of the French phrases for «registration office». No organisation other than NIC-Mauritanie may register these, and the registry may extend the list as legal, regulatory or technical practice evolves. In addition, .gov.mr is reserved for the government and names there are created directly by the registry.