Buy .cm Domain Name

No. The naming charter in force defines an eligible holder as «any applicant, Cameroonian or not, resident in Cameroon or not», and asks for no residency, no local agent, no Cameroonian tax number and no trustee service. Names are allocated first come, first served, and pre-registration or reservation is expressly forbidden. The one real condition is legal rather than administrative: the content of your site and the intellectual property rights attached to it fall under Cameroonian law. Only the government, university and political party zones require prior document checks.

Two characters. The charter in force requires a label directly under .cm to have «at least two letters» or «one digit and one letter», giving aa.cm and a2.cm as its own examples. Only letters, digits and hyphens are allowed; a hyphen may not start or end the label, and names made solely of digits are banned. One single-letter name does exist in the zone, but it was created before the text carrying this rule, and the single-letter names measured as free on 15 August 2026 do not appear open to new registration.

The charter in force ties deletion straight to the expiry date: unless the holder has expressed a wish to renew, the name is deleted automatically on that day, falls back into the public pool and may be allocated to any other applicant. No separate redemption stage, recovery fee or right of recall is defined. A newer draft prepared by the registry would soften the calendar into suspension on the expiry date and deletion seven calendar days later, but it has not entered into force. Never leave renewal to the expiry date here; a few days can cost you the name permanently.

The registry's lookup server returns the registrar, the creation and expiry dates, the status codes, the name servers and the holder's name and address. The record comes back unmasked: the charter in force contains no privacy or anonymity provision, and no registry privacy service is documented. The dispute policy treats that openness as a feature and points a rights holder straight to the published contact for direct negotiation. You can run the query from the whois search page.

The rules separate two operations. For a change of registrar the holder starts the request, the losing registrar is obliged to cooperate, and the gaining registrar must ensure the technical move leaves administrative ownership untouched; the registry's newer draft also requires every outstanding balance with the old registrar to be settled first. A change of holder is a separate act: the incoming holder must meet the charter's documentation requirements and the registry reserves the right to ask for more. Start the process from the domain transfer page.

No. The charter in force bans accented characters outright and spells out the consequence: when an accented letter is submitted only the base letter is recorded, so ñ becomes n and ë becomes e. The registry's newer draft repeats the same ban, listing á, é, ç, ü and ß one by one. In practice this means a brand written with accents or with letters outside the plain Latin set cannot be reproduced exactly under .cm, and the name has to be built from its unaccented equivalents.

The registry's 2021 dispute policy sets out three layers. First the rights holder negotiates directly with the registrant, using the contact published in the lookup record. If that fails, ANTIC can step in administratively and suspend or delete the name on proof of cybercriminal use, of confusing similarity with a trademark protected through OAPI, of a breach of the first come, first served rule, or of bad faith registration and use. The contentious route offers the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center or ANTIC's own national procedure; criminal matters remain exclusively with the courts.

Yes. The zone is signed and carries a DS record in the root, and the registry's signing policy of 15 May 2025 also covers the holder's side. Under that policy a request to publish a DS record comes from the domain's holder or its technical contact, travels through the registrar's interface or an EPP connection, and the registry separately tests that the key matches the zone configuration. None of the names sampled on 15 August 2026 carried a DS record, so the capability is documented but not yet in wide use.