Buy .co.ao Domain Name

No. The registry's commercial conditions state that any person may request an available .AO address, and no published clause asks for residence, establishment, tax registration or a local contact. A company based in Türkiye, a sole trader and a private individual all register on the same terms. The registry also licenses foreign registrars explicitly, so you can apply from outside Angola. No document upload is demanded by the registry itself; your registrar may ask for an identity number and a tax or business registration number as part of its own customer checks. If you want to walk through the process first, write to us from the contact page.

Three characters. The registry's official announcement of 1 September 2024 released previously reserved three-letter names in both the .co.ao and .ao zones, and the same announcement said two-letter names stay reserved. Measurement confirms it: three-letter .co.ao names are registered and live today, while a sweep of the entire two-letter space turns up only a handful of legacy names. The upper limit is sixty-three characters. Three-letter names are treated as premium by the registry and priced apart from ordinary names, and you see the amount at checkout. The four-character minimum still quoted on many reseller pages describes the regime before September 2024.

Both sit under the same Angolan ccTLD authority; the difference is level and history. Direct registration at the second level of Angola's own extension is open, and that is where the registry puts its shop window today. .co.ao is the commercial sub-space inside that same extension: your name sits at the third level and is served from within the country extension's zone rather than from a separate zone file. Most of the established addresses that have been in use in the Angolan market for years sit on the .co.ao side, which is why brands often take both and point them at one site. Compare the two on the domain name search page before you decide.

Ninety-six hours after your request is validated. Under the registry's commercial conditions a registration request opens for technical configuration as soon as the service fee is collected, but it only becomes definitive once that window has passed. During the window a panel of experts may cancel the request: names that collide with interests of national order, names confusable with other parties' registered trademarks, names carrying a pejorative meaning, and names registered singly or in bulk that are not used to carry content all fall within scope. If the request is cancelled the registration fee is not refunded. The practical consequence is simple: do not park the name, put a real page live quickly.

There is no defined recovery window. The registry's commercial conditions treat the renewal notice as a courtesy service from your registrar and place the duty of tracking the expiry date squarely on the holder. The same text says an address that is not renewed may be moved into a value-added domain pool and offered to the public again. The thirty-day grace plus redemption chain you know from generic extensions is not published for this zone. So build the tracking on your side: set a calendar reminder, keep the e-mail address and phone number held by the registry current, and complete the renewal weeks before the expiry date.

A change of registrar runs on an EPP authorisation key. The zone has used the EPP protocol since 2024: you request the key from your current provider and hand it to the new shop. For .co.ao the registry adds one specific restriction — only shops holding a full Registrar licence may accept that key, and sellers with mere authorised-reseller status may not. A change of holder is a separate operation governed by your registrar's own procedure, so do not confuse the two. You can start the move from the domain transfer page and follow the steps from there.

Only through the registry's own web lookup. Measurement shows that Angola's extension has no classic port forty-three WHOIS server and no endpoint listed in IANA's RDAP directory, so you cannot query it with a desktop whois client or over RDAP. The registry counts holder lookup among its own services and the single query point is the form on dns.ao, which is protected by a bot check and therefore closed to automated queries. There is also no privacy or proxy product sold for .co.ao. You can check the records of your own domains from the whois search page.

Not today. A measurement taken on 17 August 2026 finds no DS record in the root zone for Angola's extension, and the absence of the DS comes back as a validated result. The consequence is this: even if you publish a signature for your .co.ao name, the chain of trust breaks at the root and resolvers cannot validate it. The registry does list DNSSEC among the protocols it makes available in its legal notice, so the service is announced, but it is not yet visible in the root. Base the security of your address on strong account protection, registrar-side locks and a valid TLS certificate rather than on DNSSEC.