Buy .ml Domain Name

.ml is the country code top-level domain of Mali, in West Africa. The zone is run by AGETIC (Agence des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication), a Malian state agency based in Bamako; both the administrative and the technical contacts recorded in the root zone database belong to that agency. The extension has been in the root zone since 1993. Until 2013 it was held by SOTELMA, the national telecoms operator, and when that company was privatised .ml was redelegated to AGETIC on 11 February 2013. So .ml sits with the Malian state rather than a private company, and the state sets its rules.

No. For a period .ml names were handed out free and the extension became widely known online as a throwaway domain; that arrangement ended in 2023 and AGETIC took the registry in house. The registry's own portal now runs a full commercial flow: an account, a basket, an order summary, a tax-calculated invoice, and separate renewal and restoration items. You may still find pages describing free .ml domains in search results, but that information is out of date. Today .ml is registered, renewed and lost on expiry like any other country extension.

No. The registry's public lookup publishes no registrant fields at all, and this is not field-by-field redaction either: the response simply contains no registrant, admin or technical section. What you see is the name itself, the registry domain identifier, the creation and expiry dates, the registrar's details, the status codes, the name servers and the DNSSEC flag. The data is still collected: the registry's control panel asks the holder for name, company, address, country, email and telephone, but none of it is made public. You can check whether a .ml name is registered on the whois search page.

Once the expiry date passes the name is suspended and taken out of the zone, then enters a recovery period. A .ml name in that state cannot be renewed directly: the registry's system requires a restoration request to be opened, a separate restoration charge to be settled, and AGETIC to approve the request. While approval is pending the name is not live, so both your website and your mail stop working. At the end of the period the name moves into the deletion queue and there is no way back. The only safe approach is therefore never to miss the expiry date.

Alongside the flat second level, .ml also uses shared prefixes: the registry offers third-level registration under com.ml, net.ml, org.ml and edu.ml. Technically these are not separate zones — they are served straight from inside the .ml zone. com.ml is aimed at companies, net.ml at internet providers, org.ml at associations and edu.ml at local schools. If you are building an institutional identity in Mali, it is worth considering the flat .ml and the relevant prefix together.

No, registration from abroad is possible: the country field in the registry's own signup form is free and not locked to Mali, and names held through a registrar based outside Mali exist in the zone. Even so, it is worth confirming the current terms before you order from abroad; you can reach us through the contact page.

There are two channels. The registry sells directly to end users through its own portal: you open an account, check the name, complete the order against an invoice, and manage name servers, URL forwarding, glue records and DNS from the same panel. Accredited registrars also register .ml names. For anyone managing several extensions in one place, the registrar channel is the practical one. Check the status of the name you want on the domain name search page.