Buy .co.bz Domain Name

Anyone. The registry's rule draws no line between zones: anyone in the world may register, and the extension is restricted neither to Belizeans nor to businesses. No documents, local agent, residency or Belize tax number are required, and there is no hosting condition. .co.bz names are registered through registrars worldwide on a first come, first served basis.

There is no legal difference: both sit under the same registry, the same policy text and the same expiry chain. .co.bz is three months older (30 April 2001 against 29 July 2001). The practical difference is availability: a name taken in .com.bz may still be free in .co.bz, or the other way round. It therefore makes sense to check the same name in both zones; registration terms, the expiry chain and transfer rules are the same in each.

.co.bz names can be registered at 2 - 63 characters and may contain only letters, digits and hyphens, with no hyphen at the start or end. Single-character names are not open to new registration. If you want a short name, checking several options at once saves time, and you can try the same name in the sibling zone .com.bz as well.

The site and mail do not stop on the expiry date. Names renew automatically at the end of the term, and a 45-day auto-renew window then runs. If payment never arrives, a 30-day redemption period begins, followed by a five-day delete pending stage, after which the name is released. This chain is identical across all of the registry's Belize zones. A practical warning: recovering a name that has reached redemption costs more than an ordinary renewal at most providers, so the renewal is best handled before the expiry date.

Transfers run between registrars and, under the registry's policy, extend the term of the name by one full year, so the fee you pay converts directly into time. The gaining registrar pays that one-year amount to the registry, and if the name is deleted within five days of the transfer the amount is credited back. Before starting, make sure the transfer lock is released and you hold the authorisation code. You can begin from the domain transfer page.

Yes. The question is fair, because when the registry's FAQ enumerates the database it maintains it names .bz, .com.bz, .net.bz, .org.bz, .edu.bz and .gov.bz, skipping .co.bz. Yet the zone carries its own DNSSEC signature, is served by the same six name servers as the parent, sits in the database under the operator's name with delete and update locks, appears on the registry's price list and contains genuine registrations. What is incomplete is that list, not the zone.

It shows the registrar, the creation and expiry dates, the status codes and the name servers; the holder's name, organisation and e-mail do not appear. The reason is the registry's thin registry model: the policy states that registrant contacts are optional, and the responses carry no registrant section at all. Privacy here is therefore not an add-on you purchase — the zone already behaves that way. Run the query from the whois search page.