Buy .gr Domain Name

No. The registry states it plainly: .gr names are assigned to «domestic or foreign natural and legal persons irrespective of their establishment in Greece or elsewhere». A company based in Türkiye, a sole trader and a private individual all register on the same terms, and there is no local address, agent or trustee requirement. Nor is there a cap on how many names one holder may take. Priority is purely chronological: if several applications arrive for the same name, the registry queues them to the second, assigns the first and rejects the rest. There is no reservation procedure and no waiting list.

In two-year blocks. The term clause of the regulation states that the exclusive right of use acquired by assignment lasts two years from the date the registration declaration reaches the registry, and the same clause allows the assignment to be renewed indefinitely for successive periods, with the holder free to renew more than one period at once. In practice that means there is no one-year, three-year, five-year or seven-year .gr registration: the term moves in two, four and six. On renewal the new period starts from the end of the previous one rather than from the filing date, so renewing early costs you nothing.

Two characters. The name composition clause defines the variable field as running «from two (2) to sixty-three (63) characters», and that count excludes the .gr suffix and shared second-level suffixes such as com.gr. Measurement confirms it: two-letter .gr names are registered and in active use, while single-character queries are rejected by the registry system as an invalid domain name rather than reported as available. Two-character names sit in a separate fee item and are priced distinctly from ordinary names; you see the amount at checkout. For names in Greek script the sixty-three limit applies to the punycode form.

Yes, since 4 July 2005. The regulation states expressly that the variable field may consist of Greek letters; the name enters the zone file in punycode form (ονομα.gr becomes xn--mxavchb.gr) and the accented form is tied to the unaccented one through a DNAME record. The system works in bundles: register an accented name and the lower-case unaccented form is assigned to you at no extra charge, as are the final-sigma variants. Forms with the accent in a different position, and homographs that look identical in capitals, are reserved for you automatically and activated on a separate declaration and fee.

Both sit with the same registry under the same regulatory decision; the difference is eligibility and level. .gr is registered directly at the second level and asks nobody for a capacity. .com.gr sits beneath a shared second-level name defined by the regulator and, since 22 December 2025, requires the applicant to declare that they carry on commercial activity; a registration whose declaration cannot later be evidenced may be deleted. One more detail matters: the rules treat the two levels as independent, so the holder of foo.gr cannot stop foo.com.gr going to someone else. Taking both is the direct way to close your name in the Greek market.

You get fifteen days. When the exclusive right of use ends the name is switched off, and throughout those fifteen days nobody but you can file the renewal. At the end of the period the name is deactivated for good and released, and any interested party may register it; the release runs daily between 00:00 and 01:00 UTC. The thirty-day grace plus redemption chain familiar from generic extensions does not exist in this zone, which means a delay of much more than a fortnight loses the name irretrievably. The registry sends warning emails 91, 61, 31, 16, 6, 3 and 1 day before expiry.

For individuals, no. The regulator's decision in force since 22 December 2025 states that personal data of natural-person domain holders is neither published nor disclosed to third parties. The exceptions are judicial and prosecuting authorities and public authorities acting within an investigation required by law; disclosure to private parties requires a prosecutor's order and you are notified by email beforehand. Registration data of legal persons, by contrast, is disclosed to third parties on request. The registry's public lookup shows no holder field at all: you see the name, the dates, the name servers and the registrar's details. Check yours on the whois search page.

There are two separate operations, and they are easily confused. For a change of registrar you request the authorisation code the registry generates; it is sent only to the email address recorded with the registry, is valid for a limited time, and you hand it to the new provider. This does not affect the duration of your registration, so no days are lost. A change of holder is a different procedure: you obtain the transfer documents from your registrar and the action is chargeable. A name cannot be renewed while a holder-change declaration is pending, so near expiry it is safer to renew first. Start on the domain transfer page.