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WHAT IS A .GT DOMAIN

.gt Domain: Guatemala's Official Country Code Extension

.gt is the country code top-level domain of Guatemala and entered the root zone on 14 August 1992. The registry is run neither by a government department nor by a commercial company but by a university: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. The role came from IANA after engineer Luis R. Furlán established the country's first Internet connection in 1990; the whole exchange happened over e-mail, and ICANN only put that informal handover on paper through a framework agreement signed in 2006. Today the university is both the registry and the sole registrar, so every record sits in one institution's ledger.

On eligibility .gt is an open extension: the registry processes applications without discrimination and in the order they arrive, and sets no cap on how many names one holder may take. You need not be established in Guatemala either: the registry defines separate domestic and international workflows, but the difference is in the tariff, not in the right to register. No local address, representative or trustee requirement appears in any of its texts. The space for a commercial identity is the sibling extension .com.gt, and the two levels are independent: holding a .gt name does not stop the same label going to someone else at the third level.

Two things about this zone are worth knowing before you order. The first is the public record: the registry publishes the holder's name, postal address and telephone number, along with the names and e-mail addresses of the administrative and technical contacts; the only item kept out of that publication is the billing contact's data. The second is what happens at expiry: your name keeps working for fifteen days, then sits switched off for another fifteen, and at the end of that window the record is deleted from the registry database. Check whether the name you want is free on the domain name search page.

One chain after expiry, and no redemption period: The registry splits the post-expiry window into two equal halves. For the first fifteen days the name sits in the «expired» state but your website and e-mail keep running; pay within that window and you see no interruption at all. The next fifteen days are the «blocked» state: the name is out of service, the site does not load and mail does not arrive, yet the name is still yours and can be recovered. At the end of the thirtieth day the record is deleted from the registry database and the name opens to everyone. The separate paid redemption period you know from generic extensions does not exist here. The registry sends warnings thirty days before expiry, on the expiry date, and on the fifteenth and thirtieth days after it.
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.GT Domain at a Glance

  • Assigning authority Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
  • Entered the root zone 14 August 1992
  • Active registrations 7,837 .gt names (registry statistics, July 2026)
  • After expiry 15 days live, 15 days switched off, then deleted
  • Dispute procedure UDRP — WIPO as the appointed centre
  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gt domain
  • Country Guatemala
  • Character Length 3 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 10 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers

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Registering the same name on more than one extension keeps someone else from taking your brand.

.gt Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees

Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.

  • Transfer

    $99.00 /year
  • Renewal

    $115.00 /year
  • Restore

    $500.00

Included With Every .gt Domain

  • Free DNS management

    Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.

  • Domain forwarding

    Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.

.gt Domain Lifecycle

Active registration term 1 - 10 years You choose it at registration
Grace period 15 days First window to renew after expiry
Redemption period 15 days You can still get it back by renewing

What happens day by day after it expires

Day 0 is the domain's expiry date

In short: for .gt the post-expiry timeline is set by the registry, so it differs from one extension to the next. The diagram below shows the windows that actually apply to .gt, day by day. One thing never changes, whichever extension you hold: renewing before the expiry date is always the cheapest and safest route.

What happens day by day after it expires Lifecycle diagram for .gt, left to right: the name starts out available; once registered it is yours for the term you chose and the site and e-mail work; day 0 is the expiry date. The windows that follow expiry are: Redemption (15 days). At the end of day 15 the name is open to anyone again. Renewal possible Recovery possible Open to anyone Available Registered 1 - 10 years Redemption 15 days Open to anyone EXPIRED Day 0 Expiry date Day 15 Name released Website and e-mail work Expired — you have to recover it
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Domain Is Available (Available)

Open-ended

A .gt address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.

Domain Is Active (Active Period)

1 - 10 years

Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.

Redemption Period (Redemption Period)

Day 0 – 15

The domain is not released the moment it expires — during this window it is still yours and can be recovered. Some extensions charge an extra restore fee at this stage, so renewing before expiry is always the cheaper route.

Domain Is Available Again

After day 15

Once deletion completes, the domain leaves the system and anyone can register it — popular names are often taken the same minute by someone watching. Keep auto-renewal on so a name you care about never gets this far.

.gt Domain Specifications and Registration Rules

Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.

.gt Domain Registration

  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gt domain
  • Country Guatemala
  • Character Length 3 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 10 years
  • Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers

.gt Domain Support

  • IDN Support No
  • Transfer Support Yes
  • Late Renewal Support No

Frequently Asked Questions About .gt Domains

The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.

  • No. The registry's administration policy states that applications are processed without discrimination and that the same rules apply to all of them, with priority determined purely by the order of arrival. The registry does define separate domestic and international workflows, but that split only decides which tariff applies, not who may register. No local address, local representative or trustee requirement appears in any of its texts. A company based in Türkiye and an individual acting on their own behalf register on exactly the same terms. There is also no cap on how many names one holder may take. The application asks only for the holder's name and the e-mail addresses of the administrative, technical and billing contacts.

  • You get thirty calendar days in total, but the period is split in two and the halves behave very differently. The first fifteen days are the «expired» state, and in the registry's own words the name keeps operating throughout it: your site loads, your mail arrives, and paying inside this window costs you no downtime at all. The next fifteen days are the «blocked» state, where the name is taken out of service; the record is still yours but the address will not resolve. At the end of the thirtieth day the record is deleted from the registry database and the name opens to everyone. There is no separate paid redemption period here, so thirty days really is the whole margin.

  • Start with this: in this zone a provider-to-provider transfer simply does not exist, because the registry and the registrar are the same institution and every record sits in one ledger. There is therefore no authorisation code to request; changing provider means updating the contact record held by the registry, and the request comes from the registered administrative contact. A change of holder is a separate, document-based procedure: a letter on letterhead from the current holder's legal representative stating the intent to transfer, a letter from the new holder accepting all rights and obligations, plus representation documents and identity papers from both sides. The action is chargeable. Begin on the domain transfer page.

  • In your own name or your company's. The registry's terms of service call the holder field «Organización Titular» and strongly recommend that an intermediary's name is not entered there. The reason is practical: when a transfer, a cancellation or a data change is needed later, the registry acts only on a request from the holder shown in the record and from the contacts that holder authorised. Once registration is complete, open your record in the registry's lookup screen and confirm your own name appears in the holder field. The record also defines three contacts: the administrative contact may change registration data and name servers, the technical contact only name servers, and the billing contact receives renewal notices.

  • Almost all of them. The registry's data policy lists what is public one by one: the domain name, the name of the person or entity that requested it, the names, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of the administrative and technical contacts, and the name server list. Measured records also show the holder's full postal address and telephone number and the expiry date of the name. There is no purchasable privacy service in this zone, so if you enter a home address it becomes public; using a company or business address is the only real protection. The registry refuses only bulk lists, while single lookups are open. You can view your own record on the whois search page.

  • The payment method decides. When you pick a name the record first enters the «reserved» state, and that state lasts four calendar days; if no payment arrives the name returns to the open pool automatically. Paying by credit card through the registry's own site makes registration automatic and immediate. Paying by bank deposit, the record is processed within a maximum of four working hours after the receipt reaches the registry. An international wire waits for the bank's confirmation and can take three to seven working days. Name servers are not mandatory at registration and may be added later. The zone file reloads on the hour, so DNS changes go live at the next full hour.

  • The difference is one of level and tradition, not of rules. Both sit in the same zone run by the same university, under the same terms of service, the same expiry chain and the same dispute procedure. .com.gt is the commercial space left over from the zone's original architecture and still holds the large majority of the volume; .gt is written straight at the second level and shortens the address. What matters is this: the two levels are independent. Taking a word at .gt does not stop somebody else taking it at the third level. If you want to close your brand off in the Guatemalan market, taking both is the direct route.

  • Through ICANN's UDRP. The registry states plainly that it cannot assess anyone's rights to a name, and for that reason adopted the UDRP in 2000, making Guatemala the second country in Latin America to do so. WIPO was chosen as the appointed centre because it works in Spanish. A complainant must prove three elements together: that the name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark, that the holder has no rights or legitimate interests in it, and that it was registered and is being used in bad faith. The complainant pays the fees as a rule. After a decision the registry waits ten working days before implementing it, and evidence that you have filed suit in a competent court suspends it.

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