Buy .com.ar Domain Name

No. Article 4 of the regulation separates users by residency and gives those not resident in Argentina the right to operate with an identification number issued by NIC Argentina. No Argentine address, branch, local contact person or trustee service is required in any provision. The registry also publishes a dedicated section for non-resident users, stating that they may carry out registration, renewal, transfer and dispute procedures in full.

Not for the zone, but yes for the applicant. The registry's zone list places com.ar among the open zones and asks for no eligibility document. However, if you are not resident in Argentina, user verification requires a certified passport copy, a notarised signed declaration and an apostille from your country of origin; legal entities add a power of attorney and notarial certification of legal representation. The obligation comes from applying from abroad, not from the zone.

The floor is one character and the ceiling is 50. Article 13 of the regulation sets that range for second-level zones, and the registry's announcement names com.ar among the zones where names of 1, 2 and 3 characters were opened, so a three-letter brand name is possible here. Permitted characters are the letters of the Spanish and Portuguese alphabets including ñ and ç, accented vowels, digits and the hyphen; a name may not begin or end with a hyphen.

The rule difference comes down to two points. First, length: com.ar is open down to a single character, while the floor under .ar is four characters. Second, age and saturation: com.ar is the country's oldest and busiest zone, whereas direct .ar only opened on 15 September 2020, so its name pool is younger. Eligibility, term, document and transfer rules are identical, because both zones answer to the same regulation.

One year. Article 20 of the regulation states that a registration is valid for one year and offers no multi-year option. Renewal opens 30 days before expiry and, under article 21, remains possible until the last day of the grace period. Your name does not go dark at expiry: for 30 days delegation stays active, so your site and mail keep working. A second period of 15 days follows that.

Article 24 of the regulation defines a transfer as the name passing to another NIC Argentina user and states that a transfer counts as a new registration, so the term restarts. The process runs on the Trámites a Distancia platform and non-resident users may carry it out as well. Because there is no registrar layer in between, you deal with the registry directly. You can start from the domain transfer page.

It can, though Argentina's own structure sets aside org.ar for that purpose and the registry opens that zone to both Argentine and foreign legal entities. The difference shows up in paperwork: org.ar is a zona especial and a copy of the statute or articles of association is required, while com.ar is an open zone with no eligibility document. So org.ar reads as a clearer institutional signal, and com.ar completes faster.

The registry publishes its WHOIS service at whois.nic.ar and also offers RDAP. The response comes with a notice citing Argentina's Personal Data Protection Act 25326 and Decree 1558/01, so personal data appears only within the limits those instruments draw. You can check whether a name is registered and what state it is in from the whois search page.