Buy .hn Domain Name

No. Registration is tied to no residency condition at all: a company established in Türkiye, a sole trader and a private individual all take a .hn name on the same terms. There is no requirement to hold an address, a representative or a trustee in Honduras, and no cap on how many names one holder may take. The registrant agreement, in force since 7 December 2012, asks for only two things: the holder must be either an identifiable natural person over eighteen or a legally recognised legal person. Documents are requested only in the government and military subspaces; on the commercial side you file no paperwork. The same agreement gives priority expressly to whoever applies first, so there is no reservation and no waiting list.

From one to ten years, chosen year by year. 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, who report one to ten years for registration and one to nine years for renewal. Measurement supports it: two-year, three-year and four-year .hn registrations are actually in place, so there is no block regime here that accepts even years only. A longer term is worth having in this zone, because the window after expiry is short. When a change of registrar completes, the name is extended by one year, which makes a transfer a renewal purchase as well.

One character. The registry has published no minimum-length text, but the measurement is unambiguous: in August 2026 every single-character .hn name was queried one by one and all thirty-six came back registered, with not one of them free. These are not a historical exception either; several were taken in recent years through ordinary registrars in Germany, Bulgaria and Georgia. So the registry still keeps single-character names open, and a lapsed one is snapped up the moment it is released. Two-character names are available too, and some are still free. The ceiling is sixty-three characters; the permitted set is letters, digits and the hyphen, and a hyphen may not open or close the name.

You get 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, 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 window is close to a third of it. In practice a delay of one month loses the name irretrievably. Keep the address that receives renewal warnings working, and do not leave the name unattended as expiry approaches.

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, and that each of them carries a name, an organisation, a physical address, a telephone number and an email address. The same text rejects full privacy in as many words: publication of contact data cannot be blocked completely. Only certain fields treated as sensitive may be suppressed, on a request sent by email and against a charge, and even on suppressed records the holder identifier line remains visible. So do not expect a blanket privacy product on .hn. See what your record shows on the whois search page.

Both sit with the same registry under the same agreement; the registrant agreement states expressly that the policies apply to every second-level and third-level name. The difference is usage, not rules. .hn is registered directly at the second level and that is where the competition for short names happens. .com.hn is the traditional space that signals a commercial presence in the country, and it is the side international brands have used for defensive registrations for years. They differ technically as well: .com.hn is not a separate DNS zone, its names are served straight from the .hn zone. The two levels do not cover each other, so closing your name in Honduras means taking both.

Do not confuse the two separate operations. A change of registrar is open and demonstrably works; real transfer events appear in the registry's own records. You have to get the name unlocked first, because most .hn registrations carry a status code that blocks transfers. When the operation completes, the name is extended by one year, so you lose no days. 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. The one case where transfer is locked is a dispute. Start the process on the domain transfer page.

Under the registry's own policy. The text was approved on 29 August 2009 and updated on 7 May 2025, and the procedure is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization. It is not identical to ICANN's general procedure but derived from it, and 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 who wants to challenge a decision has to go to the courts of Honduras. The language of the proceeding is Spanish, and the panel decides within fourteen days of appointment.

No. .hn accepts only the basic Latin set: letters, digits and the hyphen. Spanish accented vowels and the letter ñ cannot be used in this zone, and neither can characters from any other script. Measurement supports this: none of the names seen under .hn in certificate transparency logs is in punycode form, so there is not a single internationalised name actually in use in the zone. Mind the hyphen rule too: a hyphen is free inside the name but may not open or close it, and such a query is rejected by the registry as an invalid domain name. Convert an accented brand name to its unaccented spelling before you register.