Buy .com.sv Domain Name

Yes, that role is mandatory. SVNet's rules require the person acting as administrative contact to reside permanently in El Salvador; the application form asks them for a national identity or residence card number, the expiry date of the document and a handwritten signature. The holder may be based abroad, but a resident person has to take on the contact role. If a trustee service is needed, its current terms appear at the order step.

The process runs on paper and signatures, because El Salvador has no accredited registrar layer. The application form is completed and signed by hand by the administrative contact; payment is deposited into a local bank account or made through the country's online payment platform; the receipt and the form are then delivered to SVNet's receiving office, or sent by e-mail if no tax invoice is required. Applications are processed in order of arrival, so first come, first served.

The rules list the permitted characters: letters, digits, the hyphen and the underscore. A name may not start or end with a hyphen, and only lower case is used. A few further form rules apply: the name must not look like an official body of the country, redundant particles such as «sal», «es» or «sv» should be avoided, and Internet terms such as «Internet» or «IANA» are not accepted. The registry recommends names close to your organisation's name, abbreviation or initials.

From one to five years. The rules require at least one year to be paid, and paying two, three, four or five years in advance attracts a discount. Renewal uses a separate form and the same payment route; if you renew early, the day and month of the expiry date stay the same and only the term is extended. If the date is missed, a one month grace period runs, during which the name is not opened to anyone else. Amounts paid are not refunded.

Yes, a separate form exists and the process has two sides. The form asks for the handwritten signature of both the current and the incoming administrative contact; the identity or residence card number of each is recorded, and a change of organisation name is entered on its own line. The residence requirement applies to the incoming administrative contact as well. There is no registrar to registrar transfer, because registrations are made directly with the registry.

On the rules side there is none: the residence requirement for the administrative contact, the signature and document regime, the terms and the grace period are the same in both zones. The difference is one of form and use. com.sv states a commercial identity directly, and under the rules personal names are registered here as well; direct .sv gives a shorter address and appears as its own line in the registry's fee table. Technically, com.sv names are served from within the .sv zone.