Buy .tm.dz Domain Name

Article 4 of the charter limits the zone in a single sentence: tm.dz is for legal entities resident abroad that own a mark protected in Algeria and hold no document proving activity or presence in Algeria. Eligibility therefore belongs to companies, not to individuals; the counterpart for individuals is a separate zone, soc.dz. If you do have a company established in Algeria, your natural route is .com.dz.

No — the opposite is true. The zone is defined around foreign legal entities that hold no document proving activity or presence in Algeria. The zones that ask for establishment or legal representation there are .dz and .com.dz. tm.dz exists so that a company which cannot meet those conditions, but whose mark is protected in Algeria, can still secure its address.

The basis is the trademark that gives you protection in Algeria. Among the accepted documents, Article 9 of the charter lists a copy of a trademark filing made with INAPI or with WIPO. Because of how tm.dz is defined, the commercial register route is not used here. When the mark on the document matches the domain you request, the file closes in one round; when it does not, the application comes back.

Since the zone is defined around a mark being protected in Algeria, no protection means the application has no basis. The right order is: first a national filing with INAPI or a WIPO registration designating Algeria, then the domain step. Keeping that order stops the file from coming back. While the trademark process runs, you can watch whether the name you are targeting is still free with domain search.

The charter states that a registration is effective within a maximum of two working days after a complete file reaches NIC-DZ. That is a processing time. For tm.dz the item that governs the calendar is not the domain registration but the trademark protection: two working days if the certificate is in hand, the length of a trademark filing if it is not. Planning against the sum of those two steps is the realistic approach.

Article 12 of the charter makes a transfer a written act: to change registrar, the holder sends a written document to the registration authority. A verbal agreement, or an instruction given through a control panel alone, is not enough. Your website and email keep running throughout, as long as you do not change name servers. You can start on the domain transfer page.

Article 17 of the charter names three situations: registration data that has gone stale, use of the name for spam or network attacks, and a request from the dispute resolution commission. Suspension means the address stops resolving — website and email go down. For records managed from abroad the most frequent cause is a company address or email that changed and was never updated. Keeping contact data current reduces that risk directly.