Buy .mn Domain Name

No. The registry's rules recognise two kinds of registrant: a legally recognised entity such as a corporation, an NGO or a government body, or a natural person over the age of eighteen. Residence in Mongolia, a local company, a local address and a trustee are all absent from the rules; the registry states in its own guidance that you need not be a Mongolian resident and that a business need not be based there. Accurate contact data, by contrast, is an absolute condition: the registry wants your legal name, a valid postal address, a working email address and a telephone number with country code. If the data proves false it may put the name on hold or cancel it without notice and without refund.

Anywhere from one to ten years. The registry defines the term within that range and ties it to the length you choose on the application. Expiry runs by anniversary rather than by calendar year: the name expires on the same date and at the same hour it was created, so days bought early are not lost. Renewal narrows the choice slightly — the registry's own channel offers renewal terms of one, two, five and ten years. Choosing a long term is not only a budget decision: because every renewal means checking contact data and payment again, a multi-year registration lowers the chance of a name slipping through unnoticed.

There is a two-stage window. According to the registry's own extension table the name first sits in a free grace period of 39 days, during which an ordinary renewal still works. After that comes a chargeable redemption period of 30 days, where the name can only be recovered by paying a separate redemption charge together with the fee for a new term. Once both windows close the name is released and anyone may register it. The registry sends renewal reminders at least 30 days before expiry to the billing and administrative contacts, which is why keeping that mailbox working is the first line of defence against losing a name.

Yes, in full. The registry's privacy policy enumerates the fields it publishes: the name servers, the date the name entered the zone, the expiry date, the legal registrant and the administrative, technical and billing contacts. Measurement matches that — for registrations held by individuals the name, street address, mobile number and personal email address all appeared unmasked, and the redaction lines familiar from generic extensions are absent. The conditions of registration make this a condition of entry, so a registration cannot be completed without agreeing to publication. If you want the data hidden, use your registrar's proxy service, which this zone accepts. Check how your record reads on the whois search page.

No, .mn is a Latin-only zone. The rules limit names to Latin letters, digits and hyphens, and separately rule out any name carrying a hyphen in the third and fourth position. The form an internationalised name takes in the zone file matches exactly that pattern, so names in a local script are excluded on technical grounds too. Mongolian Cyrillic demand goes to a separate top-level zone: the registry announced that it opened second-level registrations in .мон in October 2015 and operates that zone itself. The practical consequence is simple — searching the .mn side for a Cyrillic brand is pointless, because that name lives elsewhere.

Two separate operations should not be confused. A change of registrar follows the standard route: you request the authorisation code from your current provider, have the transfer lock removed and start the transfer at the new one. Several independent registrars are active in the zone, and a transfer adds one year to the registration term. A change of holder is a heavier procedure of its own: the registry requires a transfer agreement signed by both the current and the prospective holder to be delivered to it, the action is chargeable, all fees owed by the current holder must be settled first, and the change again extends the term by a year. Start on the domain transfer page.

Yes. The zone is signed and carries a valid DS record at the root; measurement retrieved that record for .mn and the answer came back authenticated. The registrant side works as well: you can publish a DS record for your own name through your registrar, and the whois output of a signed .mn registration shows it as a signed delegation. Actual adoption, however, is thin — every other name queried during measurement came back unsigned. The sub-zones the registry operates are separate delegations, and none of them is signed, so the protection stops at the second level.

The registry's acceptable use policy imposes a restriction that looks at use rather than at the name itself: publishing, or linking to, images and material considered obscene or pornographic under the law of Mongolia through a .mn address is expressly prohibited. The same policy also covers material giving detailed instructions on committing a crime. The consequence is commercial: a breach is a ground for suspending or cancelling the name, and fees are not refunded. The registry additionally reserves the right to freeze a name while a dispute is resolved and to deny, cancel or transfer a registration at its own discretion.

.mn is registered directly at the second level and that is where the real market sits; com.mn is a separate sub-zone the registry operates, where registration happens at the third level. Measurement confirms the split: com.mn and the registry's other sub-zones are individual delegations with their own name servers, and while .mn is signed none of them is. One detail breaks the symmetry you might expect: net.mn is neither delegated nor open for registration, because the registry keeps that name reserved. If you want to secure a corporate name in the Mongolian market, the second-level .mn name is the starting point.