Buy .co.ma Domain Name

No. The rules define this extension for commercial activity, but that is a purpose label rather than an eligibility gate. The text lists the spaces that demand prior examination and proof of entitlement as a closed set, and that set holds only the academic, press and government extensions; .co.ma is not among them. You therefore need no trade register extract, no certificate of activity and no prior approval from ANRT. The definition of an applicant is broad as well: natural and legal persons alike may register. Measurement confirms it, since .co.ma names are held both by large companies and by private individuals. Applications are processed first come, first served.

Yes, subject to the representation rule that governs the whole .ma family. The rules state that the holder may be established in Morocco or abroad; in the same breath they require every holder to be represented by a duly mandated natural person established in Morocco acting as administrative contact. For a company or person applying from Türkiye that means finding a representative inside Morocco. The representative holds no right over the name, yet every official communication from ANRT reaches them, including formal notices, blocks and deletions, and the holder may not plead ignorance of those exchanges. Keeping that representative's addresses in working order is your responsibility.

The rules, the registry and the regulatory decision are identical for both; the difference is the level and the purpose label. .ma is registered directly at the second level and the overwhelming majority of the market takes that route. .co.ma sits at the third level and is defined for commercial activity, though that definition asks for no documents. It is technically independent too: .co.ma is a separate delegation, served from its own name server and carrying its own DNSSEC signature. The practical upshot is that many generic names closed under .ma years ago remain free under .co.ma, because the space is live but thinly used.

Five years at most. The term clause states that a domain name may be registered for up to five years and that the holder may renew at any point in that period on the same conditions; these provisions draw no distinction between extensions, so they cover .co.ma as well. The renewal clause closes the ceiling a second time and more firmly: a domain name may not hold a validity period exceeding five years. Stacking renewals to build a ten-year .co.ma registration is therefore impossible, and the time left on your name always stays under the five-year cap. Terms are taken in whole years, and no measured record exceeded that ceiling.

Two characters. The rules list the names that cannot be registered as a closed set holding only single-character names, names longer than 63 characters, names starting or ending with a hyphen, and names containing a space; two characters are not forbidden, and the clause draws no distinction between extensions. The registry's own length statistics state that the measurement covers all the extensions including .co.ma and give the floor as two characters. Measurement confirms it: a single-character .co.ma query is not reported as available but flagged as impossible to register, while two-character queries come back free and registrable. A hyphen may not sit in the third or fourth position.

The chain differs from generic extensions and matches .ma exactly. Your provider must warn you at least thirty days before expiry. On the expiry date the name enters a thirty-day grace period during which it is held in a frozen state; you may renew or terminate it in that window. What follows surprises most people: at the end of the grace period the name is not released, it is automatically renewed for a further year and invoiced. Leaving that cycle requires a termination filing. A terminated name is then blocked for up to thirty days, during which you may re-register it, and is deleted afterwards.

By default yes. The rules enumerate the published fields one by one: the domain name, the holder's name (full name for individuals, company name for legal persons), the provider's name, the creation and expiry dates, the status of the name, the name, telephone and email of the administrative and technical contacts, and the name servers. By registering you are taken to have accepted that publication, and measurement confirmed that holder names on .co.ma records are plainly visible. The decision in force did open one door: a holder may ask that the telephone number and email address for themselves and their administrative contact not be published; that does not hide the name. Check yours on the whois search page.

There are two separate operations, easily confused. For a change of provider you request the authorisation code from your current firm, which must supply it within two working days and lift any locks; if it does not, ANRT sends the code to you directly. The losing firm has two working days to object, and silence completes the transfer automatically, with your remaining term preserved intact. A change of holder is a different procedure: a transfer form signed by both parties goes to ANRT, which decides within five working days, the operation is chargeable, and it resets the creation date of the name. Start on the domain transfer page.