Buy .com.bh Domain Name

Article 19 of the rules asks for one of two documents at the time of application: a valid commercial registration certificate, or a certificate of registration of a trademark or intellectual or industrial property. You do not need to submit both. The same article also sets a substantive condition: your company name or business activity must relate to the domain you are requesting, so there has to be a connection between your document and the name.

No. Article 19 of the rules says «a valid commercial registration certificate» and does not require that it be issued in Bahrain. That the distinction is deliberate becomes clear from article 20 immediately after: the same structure is set up for cc.bh, but there the zone is reserved for businesses registered in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the certificate must come from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The regulator wrote the local requirement in explicitly where it wanted one.

Yes. Because the rules do not limit the country of the document, a company established in Türkiye can apply with its own trade register record or trademark certificate; no Bahraini address, branch or local representative is required. The registry's own summary likewise describes com.bh as open to businesses globally. Do keep in mind the article 19 condition that the name must relate to your company name or your business activity.

Article 9 of the rules states that third-level applications are reviewed and the applicant notified electronically within at most seven days. So com.bh is not a registration that activates instantly. The same article adds two details worth planning for: a rejection must be reasoned, and the fees paid are not refunded. Settle the validity of your document and the link between the name and your activity before you apply.

Article 8 of the rules gives a single range for registration, renewal and re-registration: from one to five years. No different term is defined by level, so com.bh falls under the same range. The post-expiry sequence is identical too: article 10 provides that the name stays active and renewable for 45 days, followed by a 30-day retrieval period, after which the name is deleted within five days.

Yes, with one additional condition. Article 45 of the rules provides that names not subject to a dispute, suspension or cancellation may be transferred, while article 48 sets a specific rule for third-level names: the transferee must meet the zone's registration requirements. So whoever takes over a com.bh name must also produce a commercial registration or trademark certificate. You can start from the domain transfer page.

The difference lies in eligibility and process. For .bh, article 9 of the rules gives payment of the fees as the only condition: no document, no review, no wait. com.bh is reserved for businesses, requires a document with the application, and is decided within seven days at most. In exchange, com.bh carries an institutional signal, because it rests on a commercial register or a trademark. Naming rules and terms are identical in both zones.

They may be. Article 18 of the rules requires the holder to keep meeting the conditions throughout the registration period. If the authority finds that eligibility is not satisfied, it requests evidence by email within 30 days; if the documents are judged insufficient, a further 30 days are granted, and if that also passes without result the registration may be cancelled. Under article 11 the authority may additionally review registrations periodically or at random and suspend one outright.