Buy .ki Domain Name

No. The registry's fee schedule splits the second level into two eligibility classes, and the second one covers persons, businesses and organisations resident outside the country by name. There is no residency test, no local contact and no document requirement; the published registration process has four steps and none of them asks for paperwork. A measurement on 15 August 2026 confirms this: most names were taken through registrars based in Germany, France, Luxembourg, the United States and Sweden. The only practical difference is the fee line, not an eligibility gate.

One character. This was confirmed against a broad sample: on 15 August 2026, 18 single-character names were registered — a.ki, c.ki, e.ki, h.ki, i.ki, k.ki, m.ki, p.ki, r.ki, t.ki, u.ki, v.ki, w.ki and x.ki, plus the numeric 1.ki, 3.ki, 6.ki and 7.ki. They are spread across nine different registrars and across the years 2013 to 2026, so this is an ongoing sale rather than a historic leftover. Free ones remain too: q.ki, z.ki, ab.ki and qz.ki all came back unregistered, meaning short labels are not reserved, merely untaken.

One year. The registry's own FAQ states that domain fees are paid annually and names a single exception, the student option on a sibling extension; no multi-year term is published for .ki. The measurement matches exactly: all 18 names created during 2026 carried precisely one year between their creation and expiry dates. Across a sample of 129 names the furthest expiry sits only about a year and a half ahead of today. If you are planning a long registration horizon, this zone does not offer one, so put the renewal in your calendar every year.

Because KI is the established German abbreviation for artificial intelligence. Measurement backs that reading: on 15 August 2026, 75 of the 130 names counted at the second level sat with German registrars, and more than half of all names had been registered within the previous three years. The language of the registered names points the same way — German trade and business words such as zahnarzt.ki, fahrschule.ki, immobilien.ki, juwelier.ki, handwerk.ki, mandanten.ki, betriebsrat.ki and mensch-maschine.ki. The registry declares no such positioning; this is a trend read out of registration data.

The registry publishes no durations at all. The single published sentence says that a name not renewed by its expiry date may be suspended and eventually released for registration by others. Neither the length of a grace period nor a redemption window has been declared. A recovery stage does exist technically — two names in the measurement showed a redemption status. Names past their expiry date were also found still listed, but that is observed behaviour rather than an entitlement. The safe course is to complete the renewal before the expiry day.

Under the CoCCA Complaint Resolution Service, which differs from ICANN's UDRP. It works in three tiers: once a signed complaint form reaches the registry a preliminary review considers the public interest, the complaint then goes to an ombudsman for a confidential and free mediation period, and if no settlement follows an expert appointed at the complainant's request issues a binding ruling. Two differences matter: the procedure addresses not only rights in a name but also how the name is used, and the rules apply to subdomains the registrant creates as well.

Same rulebook, different channel and scale. Both are namespaces of the same registry under the same dispute procedure. The difference shows up in measurement: on 15 August 2026 there were 130 names under .ki and 46 under .com.ki. Most .ki names are bought through international registrars and their contact data is largely masked, while .com.ki is sold mainly through the registry's own channel and most of its holders are in Kiribati. Single-character names are possible only on the .ki side.

Usually not. Of the 129 .ki records read on 15 August 2026, 110 carried no registrant name, organisation, country or e-mail at all; the response held only the domain, the dates, the status codes, the registrar and the name servers. Masking depends on the channel: names taken through international retail registrars have their data hidden, while local names registered through the registry's own channel can stay in the clear. You can run the query yourself from the whois search page.