Enter Georgia market with a .GE Domain

No. The rules define an eligible applicant as an «adult natural or legal person, resident as well as non-resident»; you need no company, address or local representative in Georgia, and there is no cap on how many names you may hold. Applications are handled first come, first served. The registry's own count confirms this: on 15 August 2026, 6,420 of the 74,744 names in the zone were held outside Georgia. The registry may ask you to verify your identity, and if the requested information is not supplied within seven working days the name is suspended.

Two characters. The rules set the minimum at 2 symbols and the maximum at 63, and the registry's own information page repeats the same figures. This is not a rule that lives only on paper: according to registry statistics there are 339 two-character names on the books. A label may contain only Latin letters, digits and hyphens, and a hyphen may not start or end it. Single-character names come back as unavailable in a lookup, because they fall below the minimum.

For a minimum of one year. The rules set the shortest registration period at one year and state that the term may be extended by the same period; the renewal fee is paid in advance. The expiry distribution the registry publishes consists of two, three, four and five-year groups, with no group beyond five years. The practical value of a longer term is a thinner renewal calendar: on .ge the expiry date brings immediate suspension, and after that you have only a single thirty-day window.

The name is suspended on its expiry date. Because suspension cuts the link between the name and its name servers, your website and mail stop the same day. A single thirty-day window then runs; if the renewal is not paid within it, the registry is obliged to cancel the registration and delete the name from the register, and it returns to the open pool. The rules define no second redemption stage and no separate recovery fee, so the whole calendar is that one window.

You may change registrar at any time. You request an authorization code from your current registrar's system; the code is valid for thirty days and must be requested again if it lapses. You pass the code to the new registrar, and once the registry verifies it the change completes. Only the new registrar may charge for this, and money already paid in advance to the old one is not refunded. The name is locked for thirty days after a new registration, after a transfer of ownership and after a contact change, so no move is possible in those periods. Start the process on the domain transfer page.

The registry's lookup server returns the name, the creation and expiry dates, the registrar, the status codes and the name servers. Holder details depend on the type of holder: if a natural person did not ask for publication when applying, the name, address and phone number do not appear and the response carries only the technical fields. For legal entities these details are public by default, but hiding them can be requested through the registrar, and that service may carry an extra fee. Hidden records are flagged with their own status line. You can run the query from the whois search page.

No. The rules allow only Latin letters, digits and hyphens, and state expressly that marks whose symbols do not correspond to ASCII are not registered as domain names. The reason is not that Georgian is excluded but that it has its own address: there is a separate country code extension for the Georgian script, entered in the root zone in 2011 and delegated in 2014. It is operated not by Caucasus Online but by another organisation based in Tbilisi. So an address written in Georgian belongs to that separate extension, not to .ge.