Buy .cv Domain Name

No. The eligibility article of the statute opens its list of who may register with natural or legal persons and then adds state bodies, non-profit organisations and educational establishments. Nowhere does the text ask for residence in Cabo Verde, citizenship, a local address, a representative or a commercial register entry; the registry asks only for the information needed to identify you. A company based abroad, a sole trader and a private individual all register on the same terms. The zone was opened to registrants anywhere in the world by the new system launched on 24 May 2024. Priority is chronological: applications are processed by the date they reach the registry, and there is no reservation procedure or waiting list.

One character. The statute sets no minimum length and the registry actively sells single-letter names: many one-character .cv names are registered today, and the ones that are not come back classified as premium rather than simply free. The way to verify this is to read the reply carefully. For a name that really is malformed — one starting with a hyphen, say — the registry returns a distinct response saying it cannot process the query, and it never returns that response for a short name. The premium class covers every free .cv name shorter than seven characters; you see the amount at checkout. At the other end, the ordinary DNS label limit applies.

In yearly terms, starting at one year. The statute fixes no duration — it only says the service is chargeable and leaves the schedule to the regulator's implementing rules. Records visible in the registry database show one-year, two-year and five-year terms side by side, so short and long terms are both on sale. Renewal and auto-renewal are separate operations in the registry interface, and leaving auto-renewal switched on is the simplest way to make sure the post-expiry process never starts. A longer term keeps the name settled without an annual decision; a shorter one gives you room to test an idea first.

Both sit with the same registry under the same statute; the difference is the level. .cv is registered directly at the second level. .com.cv sits beneath a shared second-level label that the regulator has locked in its own name, so registration happens at the third level. Technically it is not a separate zone either: .com.cv names are served from inside the .cv zone. The consequence that matters most is this — the two levels are independent. Holding a .cv name does not stop the same word going to somebody else at .com.cv. To close your name in the Cabo Verdean market you need both.

The statute gives one figure here, and it runs from the notice rather than from the calendar. Expiry is one of the listed grounds for cancelling a registration, and in that case the holder must first receive written notice and must be given thirty days from the day it arrives to put the situation right. The grace-plus-redemption chain familiar from generic extensions is replaced here by a single corrective window. The practical consequence is blunt: if the email address on file no longer works you never see the notice, and the window closes without you noticing. Keep auto-renewal on and keep your contact address current.

Your contact details are not. An article added to the statute in 2023 requires every measure of protection, confidentiality and integrity for the data supplied during registration, and it points to a separate whois policy for the zone. Practice follows: the registry's public output never prints the holder's address, telephone or email, and in the modern RDAP response the registrant, administrative, billing and technical contacts are all masked for privacy, with the reader referred to the registrar instead. What stays visible is the name itself, the dates, the name servers and the registrar's details. You can inspect your own record on the whois search page.

A change of registrar is a working operation in this zone: the registry records the move from one registrar to another as a distinct event in its database and names the receiving party. Whether a transfer is open or closed can be read from the name's status codes; ordinary registrations are open, while names under corporate brand protection may have the transfer deliberately locked by their registrar. If a lock is present it has to be lifted first. Before you start, make sure the email address held by the registry still works, because the authorisation steps depend on it. You can begin on the domain transfer page.

No, not today. There is no DS record for .cv in the root zone, so the zone itself is unsigned, and a signature on a name below an unsigned parent cannot build a chain of trust. The registry's own output confirms it: records are marked unsigned and RDAP responses state plainly that the delegation is not signed — including for the registry's own domain name. The practical consequence is that you cannot have your .cv DNS answers validated with DNSSEC, so security has to be built at the transport layer instead. Plan your certificate, your registrar lock and two-step verification on your registrar account accordingly.