Buy .co.mz Domain Name

No. The registry's own terms assign names on a first come, first served basis and require of the applicant no residence in Mozambique, no local company, no commercial registration and no local trustee. A business incorporated in Türkiye, a sole trader or a private applicant may all apply on the same footing. This is not merely what the text claims but what measurement shows: international brands hold their names in the zone directly through their own registrars, with no local proxy in between. All the registry asks is that you declare a right to use the name and that you infringe nobody's trade mark.

Two bodies, in different roles. The registry that actually operates the zone is CIUEM, the computing centre of Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. So .co.mz is a namespace run by a university department rather than a government office, and it has been that way since 1993. A national regulation that took effect in 2020 added a state layer on top: oversight of the domain and the licensing of registration agents went to INTIC, the national ICT institute. You do not register with either body directly — you go through a licensed registrar.

Not straight away, and this is where the zone differs sharply from generic extensions. An expired name is first pulled from the name servers, so the address stops resolving, and it then sits locked in the registry rather than being deleted and put back on sale automatically. Measurement confirms it: names whose term ended in 2020 were still held by the registry in 2026. What is not published, however, is any day-by-day grace, redemption and deletion calendar. So do not leave renewal to the last moment — renewing early is the only reliable way to avoid an outage.

No. The registry's output carries not a single registrant field: no name, no address, no telephone, no email. What you see is the domain itself, the creation and expiry dates, the status codes, the name servers and the registrar's details. The practical effect is that you need buy no separate privacy service for .co.mz, because non-publication is the zone's default behaviour. There is one limit worth knowing: where a trade mark claim is evidenced to it, the registry may pass the applicant's name and address to the complainant. Check your own record on the whois search page.

A change of registrar is an implemented registry operation here. Measurement shows it from two directions: a range of registrars, Mozambican and foreign alike, actively hold names in the zone, and the registry applies the status codes that block a transfer — an operation that can be locked is an operation that exists. Before you start, make sure the transfer lock on the name is off and that you can still reach the email address recorded with the registry, since the authorisation correspondence goes there. Begin on the domain transfer page.

No. The zone is unsigned, and three separate measurements agree: there is no DS record for .mz in the root zone, none for co.mz either, and every record returned by the registry carries the line «DNSSEC: unsigned». You therefore cannot enable DNSSEC on a .co.mz name, because the registry has no way to publish the key material. Build your assurance at other layers instead: put a valid TLS certificate on the name, restrict which authorities may issue for it with a CAA record, and leave the registrar-side transfer lock switched on.

There is no UDRP-style administrative panel of the kind generic extensions offer. The registry's own terms say so plainly: CIUEM cannot act as an arbiter of disputes. If evidence reaches it that a name infringes a third party's rights, all it will do is give the complainant the applicant's name and address and then step out of the correspondence; meanwhile the name stays in use until a competent court rules otherwise. The registry withdraws a name only on a court order and after thirty days' prior written notice. Jurisdiction lies with the Mozambican courts.

The difference is one of level and of practical availability. .co.mz sits at the third level and is Mozambique's commercial namespace; the registry's own paperwork states that the names it assigns are three-level names. Second-level names registered directly under .mz turned out to be very sparse on measurement: the great majority of well-known Mozambican institutions and brands hold their name under .co.mz, while directly under .mz many strong names, from banks to telecoms operators, are still unheld. In practice the commercial market has gathered at .co.mz.