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WHAT IS A .COM.HN DOMAIN

.com.hn Domain Registration: Honduras's Commercial Space

.com.hn is the shared commercial space beneath .hn, the country code extension of Honduras, and it is the traditional address for signalling a commercial presence in the country. The body that assigns the names is Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Honduras (RDS-HN), a non-profit development organisation known publicly as NIC HN and seated in the capital, Tegucigalpa. .hn entered the root zone on 16 April 1993, while com.hn itself became a registry object on 18 December 2003 — yet the names beneath it are considerably older. The registry accepts no applications directly; you register through an accredited registrar.

On eligibility .com.hn is open: it can be taken from abroad, no address or representative inside Honduras is required, and no documents are asked for. Paperwork applies only to the government and military spaces, which the registry lists one by one as the restricted ones. You are under the same registry and the same agreement as the sibling extension .hn: the registrant agreement states expressly that the policies apply to every second-level and third-level name. The two levels do not cover each other, so holding a brand at .hn does not stop the same name going to somebody else at .com.hn.

Measurement also shows who uses this space: .com.hn is the side that multinational brands and Honduran banks have used steadily for years, two-character names are actually registered, and a share of the holders are established outside the country. One technical point is worth knowing: .com.hn is not a separate DNS zone, its names are served straight from the signed .hn zone, so a signature record you want published is announced in the parent zone. Check whether your name is free on the domain name search page.

The window after expiry closes in about twenty days: The registry does not publish the post-expiry chain on its own site; the sequence reported by accredited registrars is a five-day renewal grace period after expiry, then a fifteen-day redemption window, after which the name is reopened to the public and goes to whoever asks first. There is no separate pending-delete stage. The thirty-day grace plus thirty-day redemption chain you know from generic extensions does not exist in this zone, so the total is close to a third of it. If you hold a corporate brand name here, put the renewal in a calendar: a month of delay loses the name irretrievably.
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.COM.HN Domain at a Glance

  • Assigning authority Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Honduras (RDS-HN)
  • Legal form of the registry Non-profit development organisation, Tegucigalpa
  • Created as a registry object 18 December 2003
  • Position in the DNS Inside the .hn zone, not a separate delegation
  • Window after expiry About 20 days, then the name is open to anyone
  • Dispute procedure WIPO-administered UDRP variation, text of 7 May 2025
  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .com.hn domain
  • Country Honduras
  • Character Length 1 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 5 years
  • Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers

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.com.hn 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.

  • Renewal

    $118.99 /year
  • Restore

    $214.50
  • Late Renewal

    $23.80

Included With Every .com.hn 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 lock

    While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.

  • Domain forwarding

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

  • Free WHOIS privacy

    Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.

.com.hn Domain Lifecycle

Active registration term 1 - 5 years You choose it at registration
Redemption period 28 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 .com.hn 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 .com.hn, 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 .com.hn, 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 (28 days). At the end of day 28 the name is open to anyone again. Renewal possible Recovery possible Open to anyone Available Registered 1 - 5 years Redemption 28 days Open to anyone EXPIRED Day 0 Expiry date Day 28 Name released Website and e-mail work Expired — you have to recover it
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Domain Is Available (Available)

Open-ended

A .com.hn 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 - 5 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 – 28

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 28

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.

.com.hn Domain Specifications and Registration Rules

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

.com.hn Domain Registration

  • Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .com.hn domain
  • Country Honduras
  • Character Length 1 - 63 characters
  • Registration Period 1 - 5 years
  • Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers

.com.hn Domain Support

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

Frequently Asked Questions About .com.hn Domains

The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.

  • No. Documents are required only in the government and military subspaces; the registry lists those two by name as the restricted ones, and the commercial space is not on that list. A company applying from Türkiye, a sole trader and a private individual all take a .com.hn name on the same terms, and you need no address, representative or trustee in Honduras. The registrant agreement, in force since 7 December 2012, asks only that the holder be an identifiable natural person over eighteen or a legally recognised legal person. There is no cap on how many names one holder may take, and priority goes to whoever applies first.

  • The rulebook is shared, the usage differs. The registrant agreement states expressly that the policies apply to every second-level and third-level name, so .com.hn has no separate registry, no separate eligibility test and no separate dispute procedure. The difference is practical: on .hn the competition for short names is intense and every single-character name is taken, while .com.hn is where corporate brand protection has concentrated and short names are still free. The two levels do not cover each other, so closing your name in the Honduran market means taking both of them.

  • From one to ten years. The registry's own agreement fixes no number and leaves the term to whatever the accepted application requested; the range is published by accredited registrars, whose listings cover .com.hn explicitly and report one to ten years for registration and one to nine years for renewal. Measurement shows that multi-year registrations genuinely exist and that intermediate values are valid, so there is no block regime here accepting even years only. Because the window after expiry is short, a longer term buys extra protection in this zone. When a change of registrar completes, the name is extended by one year.

  • You have roughly twenty days. The registry does not publish the chain itself; the sequence reported by accredited registrars is a five-day renewal grace period after expiry followed by a fifteen-day redemption window. At the end of that the name is reopened to the public and goes to whoever asks first; there is no separate pending-delete stage. Because the thirty-day grace plus thirty-day redemption chain of generic extensions does not exist here, the total window is close to a third of it. If you hold a brand name in this space, automate the renewal and keep the address that receives the warnings working.

  • Yes, by default. The registry's privacy and WHOIS policy states that the public lookup returns the holder, administrative, technical and billing contacts split by role, each carrying a name, an organisation, a physical address, a telephone number and an email address; the registrant agreement confirms this applies to third-level names as well. The same text rejects full privacy outright: publication cannot be blocked completely, and only fields treated as sensitive may be suppressed, on a request sent by email and against a charge. Even on suppressed records the holder identifier line stays visible. Inspect your record on the whois search page.

  • Two characters, confirmed by measurement. The registry has published no minimum-length text, but two-character .com.hn names have been registered for years and the space is not exhausted: in an August 2026 measurement several of the two-character names tried came back free. On single characters the honest answer is this: every single-character .com.hn name sampled was free, and no single-character example appears in certificate transparency logs either, but that is not a written prohibition and could equally reflect a lack of demand. So no firm promise is made for a one-character name. The ceiling is sixty-three characters, using letters, digits and the hyphen.

  • Keep the two operations apart. A change of registrar is open, and once it completes the name is extended by one year, so you lose no days. The lock has to come off first: in measurement almost every .com.hn registration carried a status code blocking transfers, and corporate brands add update and delete locks on top of it. For a change of holder the registry has published no separate procedure; keeping registration data accurate and current is a contractual duty and false data is grounds for cancellation without refund. Transfer is locked only during a dispute. Start on the domain transfer page.

  • Under the registry's own policy, not ICANN's general procedure. The text was approved on 29 August 2009 and updated on 7 May 2025; the procedure is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the registrant agreement confirms it applies to third-level names too. Two departures concern you directly. The first is the burden of proof: the complainant need show that the name was registered in bad faith or that it is being used in bad faith, not both. The second is jurisdiction: a party challenging a decision goes to the courts of Honduras. The registrar waits ten working days before implementing a decision.

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