Buy .co.ls Domain Name

No. The «co» label carries a commercial connotation, but the registry asks for no declaration of capacity in this zone: no trade register entry, no evidence of business activity and no establishment in the country, and no documents are filed at registration. The eligibility clause of the registration policy defines its scope as .ls and its lower levels and imposes no separate condition. Priority is purely chronological. Measurement bears this out: names held by companies based outside Lesotho are registered under co.ls. The one local requirement falls on the intermediary — accreditation is open only to companies operating in Lesotho.

The registry, the rulebook, the WHOIS service and the name servers are identical; the difference is the level and market habit. .co.ls sits at the third level and is the form companies in Lesotho recognise — about three quarters of the .ls names visible in certificate records fall beneath it. .ls is registered directly at the second level and gives a shorter address. Technical measurement shows co.ls to be an independent delegation signed with its own key, so it is a zone in its own right rather than a label served from the parent. Holding both closes your brand on two fronts.

The registration policy treats transfer as a right and sets out a clear procedure. You first notify your current registrar that you wish to move; the rules oblige the current registrar to share the transfer code either with you or directly with the gaining registrar. Unless a dispute has been notified to the registry, the losing side may not deny or delay the transfer. Because the code comes from the losing provider rather than the registry, contact your current provider before starting. If a registrar ceases operating, the registry itself initiates the transfers. Begin on the domain transfer page.

The name is pulled from delegation to its name servers on the expiry date, so your website and mail stop that day rather than running on through a grace period. The registration is then suspended for thirty days and stays visible in WHOIS throughout, which means a live-looking lookup result does not tell you the address still resolves. At the end of the thirty days the registration is deleted and the name is released for general registration, so anyone may take it. There is no separate redemption period in this zone, which makes diarising the expiry date the safest habit.

None. The application clause of the registration policy lists only ordinary contact data: the domain name requested, the registrant's full name, physical and postal address, email address, telephone number, a technical contact with the same details, and the name servers to be used. Documentary duties exist only in the special zones the registry has set aside: gov.ls is open to Lesotho Government organizations alone, an ac.ls request must be accompanied by proof of registration from the Ministry of Education, and sc.ls is automated but checked after the fact, with the name liable to deletion if the evidence proves unsatisfactory.

Yes, and it was confirmed by measurement. The co.ls zone is signed from the parent, and the registry does publish DS records for customer names in the zone, which means you can hand your own signing key over through your registrar. Actual take-up, however, is very thin: querying every one of the 827 co.ls names visible in certificate records returned exactly two signed names. The registry publishes no DNSSEC guide or announcement on its website, so getting the service switched on means asking your registrar directly rather than following published instructions.

Through a two-stage route. The registry acts first: LsNIC conducts mediation as a neutral third party, holding confidential discussions with both sides and advising how the dispute might be settled, and a settlement reached at that stage is binding and enforceable. If mediation does not succeed, the registry applies the rules of ICANN's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, so the UDRP procedure familiar from generic extensions governs here too. The policy also fixes the applicable law: it is subject to the laws of Lesotho, and the courts of Lesotho hold exclusive jurisdiction.