Buy .bh Domain Name

Yes. Article 9 of the rules states that names directly under .bh are registered upon payment of the prescribed fees, so there is no eligibility review at the second level. The registry has announced that the general availability phase opened registration both locally and internationally, and that .bh can now be registered globally. No Bahraini commercial registration, address, branch or local representative is needed. Those conditions belong to the third-level zones.

Not at the second level. Article 9 of the rules gives payment of the fees as the only condition for names directly under .bh; document lists exist only for third-level zones. For com.bh, for example, a valid commercial registration certificate or a trademark registration certificate is submitted with the application. That said, under article 11 the registry may review registered names periodically or at random and suspend a registration if needed.

Article 8 of the rules gives a single range and applies it to registration, renewal and re-registration alike: from one to five years. Terms of two, three, four and five years are therefore all available. The same range covers the third-level zones, because the rules do not set a different term by level. A longer term is a practical choice if you would rather not track a renewal date every year.

One character. Article 13 of the rules sets the length as not less than one and not more than sixty-three, so single-letter and single-digit names are possible as a matter of rule. The closing paragraph of the same article does exclude reserved names, however, and some short strings may sit on the registry's reserved list. Permitted characters are the letters A to Z, the digits 0 to 9 and the hyphen, which cannot appear first, last, or in the third and fourth positions.

Yes, and the rules regulate both a change of holder and a change of registrar in detail. Article 45 states that names not subject to a dispute, suspension or cancellation may be transferred, provided the transferee meets the registration requirements. A registrar transfer runs on a verification code, and article 54 states that an application made within 60 days of registration or of a previous transfer will be rejected. You can start from the domain transfer page.

No. Article 13 of the rules permits only the letters A to Z, digits and the hyphen for names directly under .bh. Bahrain runs a separate top-level zone for Arabic names, and article 14 sets out its rules separately: the name must be in Arabic only, may not begin with a number, and must comply with the Unicode character set listed in the appendix to the rules. So an Arabic address means targeting that zone, not .bh.

Yes, and the window is unusually long. Article 10 of the rules grants 45 days after expiry in which the holder may renew, and it states plainly that the name remains active throughout that period. If you do not renew within it, the name is deactivated; you then have 30 days to request it back by paying the registration fee plus a retrieval fee. Once that lapses, the name is deleted five days later and released to everyone.

Article 16 of the rules lists the third-level zones with their purposes: com.bh, biz.bh and cc.bh for businesses, net.bh for telecommunications and IT service providers, org.bh for authorities, organisations, clubs and charities, edu.bh for educational institutions, info.bh for information provision services, med.bh for medical services, and name.bh and me.bh for natural persons. At the second level, an Arabic zone sits alongside .bh.