Enter the Mexico market with a .COM.MX Domain

No. The «com» in the name imposes no commercial condition. The classification annex of the rules says only two things on the .com.mx line: the space is open to «any natural or legal person who applies», and the documents required are «none». No company registration, no declaration of commercial activity, no tax number, no residence in Mexico and no trustee is demanded in any clause. To see the contrast, look at the closed classes in the same annex: .net.mx demands proof of registration with the telecoms regulator, .org.mx evidence of non-profit purpose, .edu.mx a school code, .gob.mx an official appointment letter. Registration runs through an accredited registrar.

On eligibility there is no difference: the rules describe both as open to «any natural or legal person who applies» with «none» in the requirements column. The two real differences are measurable. The first is scale: on 15 August 2026 the registry counter showed 964,666 names under .com.mx against 440,196 directly under .mx, so two of every three Mexican names sit here. The second is short names: one- and two-character names are entirely reserved on the .mx side but exist under .com.mx. You need not choose between them; for brand protection, holding both is the most direct route.

Short names genuinely exist on this side. The registry's list of reserved names closes one- and two-character names to registration but defines the sole exception as «those registered before 1 May 2009»; since direct .mx registration opened on that day, the exception has in practice operated only in older spaces such as .com.mx. Measurement confirms it: single-letter and two-letter .com.mx names are on record, and some were registered after 2009 as well. A caveat: no free short name turned up in the sample, so if you want one, factor in the transfer route. The upper limit is sixty-three characters.

In whole-year steps. The rules define renewal as «the extension of use for one or more years of coverage», so the term is sold in full-year multiples: there are no intermediate values and no monthly registration. Measurement agrees: across the registry's .com.mx records the overwhelming majority of expiry dates fall one year after the last operation, with some running two years and further ahead. One side rule is worth knowing commercially: when a change of registrar completes, the name is automatically extended by a further year, and that automatic extension can never exceed one year.

The published rules define no grace period and no redemption window of the kind you know from generic extensions. The text splits deletion in two: when the paid coverage ends and the registrar has not paid the renewal, deletion is automatic and the name becomes available to third parties; when the registrar deletes a name manually while it is still within its term, the name enters a thirty-day pending window and can be recovered against a fee. The registry publishes the names it releases in a list every day, and .com.mx names make up the bulk of that list. Renew before the date — a missed expiry here is not a recoverable delay.

Yes, a significant part of them is. The registry's lookup returns four contact blocks for every name — registrant, administrative, technical and billing — and each block shows the full name, city, state and country in the clear. Individual registrations display the person's own name too. Street address, email and telephone, by contrast, are not published, and no purchasable privacy service is defined anywhere in the rules. The rules also state that a name whose data is incomplete or false may be suspended or deleted, so accurate data is a condition of keeping the name. You can view your own record on the whois search page.

No. The registry lists the permitted character set as letters, digits and the hyphen; local-script support, accents and bundle mechanics appear in none of its documents. Measurement settles it through a single syntax rule: the registry treats labels containing two consecutive hyphens as invalid. Internationalised names enter the zone file in punycode form beginning with «xn--», so that prohibition makes them impossible from the outset — querying the punycode form of an accented .com.mx name returns an invalid-string response. If your Spanish name carries ñ or an accent, plan the unaccented spelling. Hyphens are allowed, but a name may not begin or end with one, nor carry two in a row.

Do not confuse the two separate operations. For a change of registrar you need the name's authorisation key, which the rules define as «the key required to carry out a transfer process» and which you request from your current registrar. When the operation completes, the name is automatically extended by a further year, so you lose no days and in fact gain term. A change of holder is technically a separate update and also runs through the registrar; the name itself can never be altered. No holder change is possible while a dispute procedure is pending. Start on the domain transfer page.