Enter Indonesia market with a .ID Domain

It can. Article 8.13 of the policy opens names directly under .id without regard to nationality: persons, individuals, Indonesian citizens, foreigners and legal entities. There is no residency requirement in Indonesia, no address, no branch and no local contact person. This is the clearest difference from the sibling zone co.id, which is reserved for businesses operating in Indonesia and requires an NIB business identity number.

The policy lists no documents for names directly under .id. Article 8.13 defines who may register, and article 8.14 sets the single condition common to every Indonesian domain name: a verified email address. The zones that do list documents are co.id, ac.id, sch.id, or.id and ponpes.id. Article 6.1 nevertheless entitles the registry to ask for supporting documents where needed, and article 9 defines them as an identity document (a KTP or a passport) and a legality document.

Article 7.1 of the policy: there is no limitation on the number of domain names that may be registered, and a name is registered for one year or a maximum of ten years. Article 10.1.1 repeats the same range from the life-cycle side: the validity period runs from one to ten years from the activation date and may be renewed. A longer term pays off particularly well here, because one of the post-expiry stages carries a penalty.

Article 10 of the policy defines four stages. The registrar sends notifications regularly through the three months before expiry. Once the term ends, a 45-day auto-renewal period begins; if no delete request is filed during it, the name renews automatically at the normal cost. If a delete request is filed, a 30-day redemption period follows and recovering the name costs a penalty of four times the normal one-year renewal. A final seven-day stage then closes recovery altogether.

Article 6.3.2 of PANDI's General Domain Name Policy: a name consists of the letters A–Z and a–z, the digits 0–9 and the hyphen; the hyphen may sit neither first nor last, nor in the third and fourth positions consecutively. Article 6.3.4 fixes the length at a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 63 characters. Article 6.3.5 leaves a door open: names below the minimum may be registered subject to provisions set separately by the registry, and PANDI's portal publishes a distinct tier for two-character .id names.

Two windows are closed. Articles 10.1.3 and 7.2.1 to 7.2.2 of the policy: a name may not be transferred during the first 60 days after its activation or its most recent transfer, nor in the last 10 days before the end of its term. The registrant receiving the transfer must meet the zone's registration requirements, and verifying that is the duty of the gaining registrar. A change of registrar also requires identity, legality and supporting documents to be uploaded. You can start on the domain transfer page.

The zones offered on PANDI's registration portal are .id itself, co.id for businesses operating in Indonesia, biz.id for small and medium enterprises, my.id for individuals and other entities, web.id for the general public, or.id for associations and communities, ac.id for higher education, sch.id for primary and secondary schools, ponpes.id for religious educational institutions, and ai.id. Beyond these, net.id, go.id, mil.id and desa.id follow separate regulations. Article 8.15 lets the registry add new zones.

Through PPND, the non-litigation route PANDI established in 2013 specifically for .id names. It handles two categories: disputes over a registered trademark and disputes over a name, whether personal or corporate. In the trademark category the complainant must prove three elements together: similarity, the absence of rights or legitimate interests on the other side, and bad faith. PPND's own page reported 59 cases, 17 expert panelists and an average resolution time of 46 days on 11 August 2026.