Buy .bt Domain Name

Yes, in your company's name. The registry's section on international applications states that international companies may register a .bt name matching their own company name by submitting a registered trade licence together with an application written on company letterhead and stamped. There is no requirement for an address in Bhutan, a local representative or a trustee service; the document comes from your own commercial register. The same section accepts abbreviations of the company name, so a long legal name is not an obstacle.

Point (d) of section 5 of the application form sums it up in one line: attach a copy of your trade licence. International companies are additionally asked to submit the application on company letterhead, stamped. For applicants inside Bhutan the rule differs slightly: individuals applying in a company's name need a valid trade licence, while organisations and government departments need a letter signed by the head of the body. Because the form asks for the second and third level on one page, the same requirement applies to com.bt.

The registry publishes the minimum length in two separate places with the same value: a domain name must have at least three characters. The sentence appears both in the international section of the service page and in section 2 of the application form, where the allocation principle is stated as well — names are given on a first come, first served basis. No upper limit is published separately, so the 63-character limit that applies to DNS labels governs. No list of reserved or prohibited names has been published either.

.bt is the second level itself; com.bt is one of the six zones the registry offers (.bt, com.bt, org.bt, net.bt, gov.bt, edu.bt). On the rules side no eligibility difference has been published between them: the application form asks for both levels on one page and requires the same document. The difference is technical — .bt is attached to the DNSSEC chain of trust coming from the root zone, whereas com.bt, although a zone of its own, carries no signature link from its parent.

Bhutan publishes no rule on this. Neither a registrar change nor a change of holder has a defined procedure, deadline or authorisation code, and because the country runs no accredited registrar system, the operation that corresponds to a transfer is not technically defined in the first place. This is a gap rather than a ban — the registry does not say that a change of holder is refused either. So if you plan a transfer or an assignment on the .bt side, have it confirmed in advance through the contact page.

No, because Bhutan operates no public WHOIS service. The whois server line in the IANA root zone record is empty for .bt, and in a measurement on 12 August 2026 neither whois.nic.bt nor whois.druknet.bt resolved in DNS at all. The registry offers lookups only through the availability box on its own site; that box shows whether a name is taken, plus the registrar and the creation and expiry dates — not the holder's contact record. You therefore do not need to buy a separate privacy service.