Buy .gq Domain Name

No. The registry puts it plainly: the Equatorial Guinea country extension is an open namespace, and both natural and legal persons may register. There is no company, address, agent or trustee requirement in Equatorial Guinea, and no document is asked for at application. Nor is any cap placed on how many names one person or organisation may hold. A company registered abroad, a sole trader and a private individual all apply on the same terms. The distribution channel is open too: no ICANN accreditation is needed to sell .gq, and any legal entity may apply to become a distributor.

One character. One, two and three letter names are not closed off in .gq; the registry places them in a class it calls special names and prices them as a separate fee item from ordinary names. The same class also takes in common dictionary words and names that appear on trademark lists, and you see the amount at checkout. From four characters a name falls into the ordinary class. The upper limit is sixty-three characters, and one character beyond that is rejected by the lookup. So a short two-letter brand name is technically obtainable here; the only question is whether it is still free.

Yes, and with no masking at all. There is no privacy service to buy in this zone, and the registry publishes the record exactly as it holds it: on a record that was looked up, the owner, administrative, billing and technical blocks all appeared in full, with name, street address, postcode, city, country, phone, fax and email. No distinction is drawn between individuals and organisations either. Plan on the contact details you supply at registration being public from day one; a business address and a role mailbox are a sensible choice here. Check your own records on the whois search page.

You lose the name outright. The renewal window falls in the fourteen days before the expiry date; miss that window and the registration is cancelled and the name is opened to other registrants again. The thirty-day grace period, the redemption phase that follows it and the right of recovery, all familiar from generic extensions, do not exist in this zone. The registry sends a single reminder email fourteen days before expiry, and it says itself that this message can land in a junk folder. So keep auto-renew switched on for .gq names and keep the address on file working.

Yes, and the requirement is unusually strict. The registry's content policy treats names without real content as prohibited outright: parked pages, monetised or not, "under construction" and "coming soon" pages, blank pages and addresses that return an error message all fall inside the scope. The registry gives its reason as well, namely preventing name hoarding. The same list also covers racism, insults, adult content, drugs, weapons, gambling and malware. A name that breaches this rule is given a suspended status. Putting a working page on the name after registration is therefore not merely good practice; it is a condition of keeping it.

A paid registration carries full transfer rights, a free one carries none at all. The difference is legal: with a free registration the holder counts as a user of the name rather than a licensee. On a paid .gq name both a change of registrar and a change of holder are possible. For a change of holder the registry will not act until it has all of the new holder's details and their commitment to the registration agreement, so a transfer weighs as much as a fresh application. Both operations are locked during a dispute proceeding and for fifteen business days after it. Start on the domain transfer page.

The registry has adopted ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and reproduces the text in its own policy document. The complainant has to prove all three elements: that the name is identical or confusingly similar to their mark, that the holder has no rights or legitimate interests in it, and that the name was registered and is being used in bad faith. The case is heard before one of the providers approved by ICANN, the complainant chooses the provider and as a rule carries its fees. A panel may only order the name cancelled or transferred, never damages. Even then the registry waits ten business days before acting.

No. The .gq lookup accepts only the letters a to z, digits and a hyphen placed inside the name. In testing, entries containing accented letters such as ñ, é, ç or ü were not answered as taken or free at all; they were rejected as invalid names outright. The same goes for a hyphen at the start or end of the name and for an underscore anywhere in it. If your brand is normally written with accents, you need an unaccented spelling for .gq: replace ñ with n and é with e, and register that form instead.