Buy .aq Domain Name

The registry gives no public answer to this: there is no published registration policy, fee schedule or eligibility list. The only thing that can be measured is the state of the register, and the pattern is uniform — on 13 August 2026 the working names in the zone belonged to Antarctic Treaty bodies, national polar programmes and research infrastructure on the continent. Your request is therefore passed to the registry and assessed there, and we follow the outcome with you during registration.

There is no self-service registration flow for this extension. The registry does not even have a website: in the 13 August 2026 measurement the manager's domain carried only a mail record, no web server, and the other registry addresses one might guess did not resolve at all. The single published contact is an e-mail address. The process therefore runs by correspondence and takes longer than an ordinary domain registration.

The extension corresponds to AQ, the ISO 3166 code assigned to Antarctica; because the continent has no government, no citizenship and no company register, «country» here denotes that code rather than a sovereign state. The governance framework comes from the Antarctic Treaty system, and the treaty's permanent secretariat keeps its own address under .aq. Operationally the extension is run not on the continent but by a company registered in New Zealand.

No. The extension's IANA record contains neither a WHOIS nor an RDAP line, so registration data is not published through any queryable interface. This cuts both ways: your registrant details are not made public, but neither is there an official source for third parties wanting to verify who holds a .aq name. Whether a name resolves at all can only be seen through DNS.

No. In the 13 August 2026 measurement no DS record for .aq was found in the root zone, so the zone is unsigned and a DNSSEC chain for your domain cannot be validated from the root. The zone is otherwise updated regularly and all three of its name servers are reachable over IPv6. If your project depends on DNSSEC on the security side, plan for this from the outset.

This extension is not a good candidate for a defensive portfolio. The registry publishes neither a dispute procedure nor a reserved-name list, so there is no UDRP-style administrative route to fall back on in a conflict. The names visible in the register are not brand portfolios either; they are the addresses of organisations genuinely tied to the continent. If trademark protection is the priority, build it in the extensions of the markets where you are registered.

The registry publishes no registration term, renewal calendar or expiry regime, and because there is no queryable register the term cannot be measured from outside either. That is why no number of years appears here: the applicable term and renewal conditions are settled at order time. If you are considering the extension for a long-running project, put the renewal responsibility in your own calendar as well.

In the 13 August 2026 measurement the working names included the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat, the Australian Antarctic Division, the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs, the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of Russia. The Australian Antarctic Division runs its own name server and its own mail server under that name — so the extension is used as working infrastructure, not as a symbol.