Enter Chad market with a .COM.TD Domain

It is run by ADETIC together with the parent zone .td — the Chadian state agency responsible for information and communication technologies, based in N'Djamena. .com.td has no separate registry, no separate operator and no separate rulebook. Measurement confirms this from two directions: in DNS, queries for com.td are answered out of the .td zone, and in the registry the com.td object sits under a registrar entry tied to ADETIC's own street address. In other words, the counterparty behind this extension is Chad's national domain authority.

None could be found in the measurement of 15 August 2026. More than a dozen candidates were tried against the registry lookup — including the .com.td equivalents of well-known brands that do hold a name at the second level — and every one came back as not registered. An independent second measurement pointed the same way: of the 1,578 names carrying a valid TLS certificate under .td that day, not one had the .com.td form. What that means for you is direct: a short, generic or exact-brand match is very likely still free.

The difference is level and actual use, not registry. .td is registered straight at the second level and is the form used as a corporate address in Chad. .com.td is the third level set aside for commercial use; the com.td label was opened in the registry on 3 September 2019, locked under ADETIC's own name and never delegated as a separate zone in DNS. In short, .td buys recognition while .com.td closes off the commercial variant of your name. Holding both protects your brand more completely inside the zone.

The registry operates a single lookup server that also accepts third-level names: whois.nic.td, on port 43. In measurement that server treated .com.td names as valid, returning a not-registered message for unregistered ones and a distinct error for malformed input, so the two cases never blur together. There is no RDAP endpoint, which means modern lookup clients cannot reach this zone. The answer carries no holder information at all — only the registrar's details are shown. You can run your query from the whois search page.

No. A DNS measurement on 15 August 2026 found no DS record in the root zone for the parent zone .td, and because the top link of the signature chain was never created, no name beneath it can be validated. com.td has no DS record of its own either, and the registry object shows its DNSSEC flag as «unsigned». The practical consequence is that the origin of your DNS answers cannot be verified cryptographically. That raises the value of protecting the domain account with a strong password and two-step verification, and of pinning your records with your provider's lock features.

The registry uses the standard EPP status codes and has not switched transfers off across the zone: measurement showed both names carrying a registrar-set lock and names with no lock at all. The com.td label itself, however, is locked in the registry against transfer — that lock keeps the label with ADETIC and says nothing about names beneath it. Because no registered name could be found under .com.td, the transfer flow could not be measured directly at this level. If you are planning a move, start on the domain transfer page.