Buy .ar Domain Name

Yes. Article 4 of the regulation divides users into residents and non-residents of Argentina and grants both the right to register. Non-residents are not required to obtain an Argentine tax number; NIC Argentina issues them an identification number of its own. The registry even publishes the numbering: it begins with 40 or 41 for individuals and 50 or 51 for legal entities. No Argentine address, branch, local contact or trustee service is required anywhere in the rules.

The zone itself asks for none; the document requirement comes from your residency status. If you are not resident in Argentina, user verification requires a certified copy of your passport or ID, a notarised signed declaration and a legalisation or apostille from your country of origin. Legal entities add a power of attorney and notarial certification of legal representation. Resident applicants submit no paper at all; electronic verification by the tax authority is enough.

One year is the only option. Article 20 of the regulation states that a registration is valid for one year and offers no multi-year term, so you renew annually. Renewal opens 30 days before expiry. Your name does not go dark the moment it expires: the same article grants a 30-day grace period during which delegation stays active, so your site and mail keep working. A second period of 15 days follows.

Because that limit is specific to this zone. NIC Argentina opened names of 1, 2 and 3 characters in second-level zones such as com.ar, net.ar, org.ar and tur.ar, but its announcement expressly held the first-level .ar zone outside that scope. Directly under .ar the floor is four characters. Try your three-letter name in com.ar; the ceiling is 50 characters at both levels.

Yes, within a defined set. Article 12 of the regulation permits the letters of the Spanish and Portuguese alphabets including ñ and ç, accented vowels and vowels with a diaeresis, digits and the hyphen. So á, é, í, ó, ú and ü are all usable. A name may not begin or end with a hyphen, and it may not begin with xn--, which means you submit the Unicode form rather than punycode.

Article 24 of the regulation treats a transfer as the name passing to another NIC Argentina user, and adds a consequence worth planning around: the transfer counts as a new registration, so the term restarts. Like registration itself, the process runs on the Trámites a Distancia platform, and non-resident users may carry out transfers too. You can start the steps from the domain transfer page.

The registry publishes its own WHOIS service at whois.nic.ar and also offers an RDAP service. The response arrives with a legal notice citing Argentina's Personal Data Protection Act 25326 and Decree 1558/01, which means personal data is shown within the limits those instruments set. You can check the status of a name from the whois search page.

No. Argentina applies its own administrative procedure. Article 28 and those following open a challenge route for any user who believes they hold a better right or a legitimate interest in a name, and give the respondent 10 days to reply. The process runs on the Trámites a Distancia platform. Ten guidance criteria for identifying bad-faith registrations are set separately by Disposición 187/2023.