Buy .ls Domain Name

No. The registration policy sets no eligibility condition for the second level: nothing in the text requires residence in the country, a local address, a trade register entry or a representative on the ground. Priority is purely chronological, determined by the moment the application reaches the registry. Measurement bears this out: names held by companies based outside Lesotho are registered in the zone. The one local requirement falls on the intermediary rather than the holder — accreditation is open only to companies operating in Lesotho, so your order always travels through a registrar.

None for the second level. 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 requirements 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 is refused without it, and sc.ls is automated but verified after the fact.

The registry, the rulebook, the WHOIS service and the name servers are identical; the difference is the level. .ls is registered directly at the second level, giving you the shorter yourname.ls form. .co.ls sits at the third level as a separate, commercially flavoured zone, and technical measurement shows it to be an independent delegation signed with its own key. Usage weight today sits with co.ls: roughly three quarters of the .ls names visible in certificate records fall under it. Holding both is the direct way to close your brand across the Lesotho namespace.

The name is pulled from delegation to its name servers on the expiry date, which means your website and mail stop that day rather than running on through a grace period. The registration is then suspended for thirty days and remains visible in WHOIS throughout, so it is entirely normal for a lookup to show a live-looking record long after the address itself has gone dark. At the end of the thirty days the registration is deleted and the name is released for general registration, meaning anyone may take it. There is no separate redemption period in this zone, so diarising the expiry date is the safest habit.

The registration policy binds name composition with four conditions: a name may use only alphanumeric characters and hyphens, must not begin or end with a hyphen, must contain no spaces, and must not exceed sixty-three characters. There is no local-script support; the registry publishes neither an IDN character table nor a punycode converter. Measurement confirms it: of the thousand-plus .ls names visible in certificate transparency records, not one is in punycode form. Lesotho's official languages are Sesotho and English, both written in the Latin alphabet, so no practical need for IDN has arisen.

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. 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 over any dispute.

Not directly. The registry states it plainly on its own site: LsNIC does not interact directly with registrants for domain registrations, and domains are registered through LsNIC accredited registrars. The policy describes the same chain in three links — registry, registrar, registrant. It covers more than new registrations: renewals, deactivations, reactivations and deletions all go through the registrar as well, and a registrant cannot file them with the registry personally. Check the status of the name you want on the domain name search page, and raise anything unclear through the contact page.