Enter Bangladesh market with a .BD Domain

The only document list the registry publishes names two items. For identity it asks for a Bangladeshi National Identity Card (NID); corporate applications add a trade licence, approval letter or RJSC company registration certificate. Documents are uploaded to the profile you create on the registry portal, so paperwork is required at registration rather than afterwards. The operator has published no separate list and no exemption for applicants based outside Bangladesh, so if you are applying from abroad, confirm in advance which documents you can supply.

The registry opened direct second-level registration to the general public on 19 January 2026. A priority window ran before that: holders whose domain had been registered before 15 October 2025 could claim the matching direct name ahead of everyone else, and that window closed on 18 January 2026. Until then the extension was only available in third-level forms such as com.bd. With the window now closed, allocation follows the ordinary first come, first served rule.

Yes. The published rate card sorts names by length, and the first rows of the list are reserved for two-letter names — both directly under .bd and under com.bd. The card notes that these names are available in limited numbers and prices them separately from longer names. So a two-letter corporate acronym is genuinely worth testing in this extension; just have your documents ready before you start, because availability and eligibility are separate questions.

Bangladesh has no public WHOIS service on port 43. The IANA record for .bd contains no whois line at all, and the obvious candidate server names do not resolve in DNS. That means a standard WHOIS client cannot tell you whether a name is taken; lookups run through the search box on the registry's own portal instead. For the registrant, date and registrar fields you are used to seeing in other extensions, you can use our WHOIS search page.

Yes, change of ownership is a published procedure. The registry lists the steps: an agreement between the two parties plus verification documents from both; both parties must hold a portal profile; the first party sends the request with the documents to the second; the registry verifies it and issues an invoice; the second party pays. The rate card carries a separate line item for this. There is no separate registrar transfer, because a single operator runs the whole zone.

No. The registry publishes a separate late fee for overdue names, and paying it recovers the registration, so missing the due date does not release the name straight away. What the operator has never published is how many days that window lasts, so do not build a plan around it. The safe approach is to put the renewal date in your own calendar and complete the payment as the term approaches rather than waiting for a reminder.